Albrecht Dürer, St. George. 1502.

Leutnant Carl Degelow in front of his Fokker D VII.

Leutnant Carl Degelow in front of his Fokker D VII featuring his personal emblem, Jasta 40 , 1918. Before WW1 Degelow was a chemist working in the USA.
He joined the German Army in 1914 and started the war serving in an Infantry regiment. After being severly wounded in 1915, he was transferred in the Air Force. He was granted the “Croix pour le merite”, the highest military decoration  of the Prussian Empire.
During the first days of the Nazi regime, he was jailed for several days for refusing to give the Nazi salute on parade .

Augustine and Monica, by Gioacchino Assereto.

Nadezda

Plinio Nomellini, Garibaldi.

Nina Hagen (and Dolly Parton), 1978. Photo by Jim Rakete.

“Golden Rule” (1961) by Norman Rockwell

Robyn Lea, Hong Kong.

Yue Minjun

The backside of the Pantheon

Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872).

Female nude (1910) by Egon Schiele.

Horned Helmet, belonging to an armor presented to King Henry VIII by emperor Maximilian I in 1514, attributed to Konrad Seusenhofer, made in Innsbruck, ca. 1512, Royal Armouries Leeds.

Graeme William Balchin

Salvator Rosa

 


































AVT TACE  AVT LOQVERE MELIORA SILENTIO
                     (Be quiet, unless your speech be better than silence)

Window design of the Palazzo Zuccari, Rome.

Bull head from a column of the old Persian capital Persepolis, 486-425 BC.

Hubei, Hankou, China. April 29, 1938 watching war planes.

Hubei, Hankou, China. April 29, 1938. Citizens watching as Chinese fighter planes shot down twenty of the Japanese bombers that were attacking the city on Emperor Hirohito’s birthday.

Parade helmet (with missing visor) of Emperor Charles V by Filippo Negroli.

Beauties according to Hugo Pratt

L'anno del porco (alla fiorentina)...

Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life Vase with Irises, 1890.

John La Farge, Samoa.

Moshe Rosental, Medusa.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. To piss against the moon. Twelve proverbs (1558).

Achille Marozzo’s Arte dell'Armi. Engravings by Giovanni Battista Fontana and Giulio Fontana, Venice, ca. 1568.

 Rimango sempre stupito dalla nostra capacità di trovare nuovi modi per uccidersi in grande stile.

Tokyo 1952 by Werner Bischof

Giovanni Lanfranco at the Galleria Borghese, c. 1624-25.

Eugene Jacques Bullard (9 October 1894 – 12 October 1961)

Manfred von Richthofen

Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (Russian: 1782 - 1836) Portrait of Pyotr Olenin, 1813.

The Duellists (1977).

A NAVY OFFICER’S SABRE. Austria, circa 1900.

Monica Bellucci

Blocco navale contro i mostri

Ho smesso di votare i competenti. Erano sciocchi. Tra poco tocca agli altri.

Mods

NO FEAR

Roman-inspired “Armour to the Roman” made in 1546 by Bartolomeo Campi for Guidobaldo della Rovere. Eventually gifted to Phillip II of Spain.