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Nebula-Generated Music, Doomscrolling Art, and The Historical Accuracy Of Assassin’s Creed
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The week hath begun. Which means …
… it’s time to chill out and spend some time sampling the fruits of my weekly link-trawl!
Let’s begin …
1) ⛄ Snowball fights in art throughout history
Artists have been drawing snowball fights for centuries; indeed, some of the earliest extant images of snowball fights are from medieval books of hours.
Now the Public Domain Review has curated dozens of historic snowball-fight pictures. In the accompanying essay, they point out something cool: How amazingly consistent is the body-language of snowball-fight-combatants throughout history …
What’s wondrous about browsing the images gathered below is how little changes across centuries and continents — like landscapes blanketed with powder, difference fades in the snow fight. A fifteenth-century fresco from Trento, Italy, reveals combatants with arms cocked back (and one unfortunate recipient of a headshot), wearing expressions of minorly-sadistic pleasure or intentions for revenge — postures nearly identical to Utagawa Kunisada (I)’s…
