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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Show-stealing reflections in Turner's 'Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute', 1835.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-venice-porch-madonna-della-salute-metropolitan-museum-art.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Japanese macaques: usually seen soaking in hot springs surrounded by a peaceful, drifting mist as snowflakes settle softly on their fur, this one’s hell unleashed, bent on carnage.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1animals/japanese-macaque-teeth-photography.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Aged just 6, Jane Anstruther masterfully plucks the harp. Anonymous, c. 1807

https://universalcompendium.com/tables/xfam/2401-2600/2537%20-%20anstruther/notes/images/jane-anstruther-dalyell-baronets-balcaskie.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

A colossal sea serpent coils around a ship. Engraving, after Olaus Magnus, 19th century.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1fantastical/mythical-monsters-sea-serpent-attacking-ship-vessel-cartographer-olaus-magnus-medieval.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

🎝Did you pick ... that cravat?
I did that
Here's your hat, I don't think I'll fall in love today🎝

~ 'I Don't Think I'll fall in Love Today',
Dawn Upshaw & David Garrison /George & Ira Gershwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ow55NYl9x4&list=RD6Ow55NYl9x4&start_radio=1

'Flirtation', by Federico Andreotti (d.1930)

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/andreotti%20federico/flirtation-andreotti-painting-man-woman.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

A hydrus being swallowed by a crocodile, the legendary mediaeval creature in one account, escapes by tearing through the crocodile’s insides, symbolising Christ’s descent into the place of the dead and breaking free to rise again. English manuscript, c. 1200–1210. https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/illuminated/hydrus-crocodile-swallowing-mediaeval-manuscript-miniature-british-library.htm #art #books #animals #christian

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

A Study in Perspective and Expectation (from wonder to 'whatever').

Image 1: Excited Siamese cat convinced something monumental is happening high above.
Image 2: Cat realises it's just a human, promptly loses interest

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1animals/siamese-cat-lawn-photography-i.htm

#cats #photography #strange #perspective

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

Post-Impressionist painter, illustrator and lithographer Pierre Bonnard. Self-portrait, c. 1904.

https://universalcompendium.com/tables/xfam/0201-0400/0362%20-%20freville/notes/images/bonnard-pierre-self-portrait-painting-oil-post-impressionist.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

Neo-Gothic church of Santuario del Carmen in Bogotá, completed 1938.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1architecture/church-iglesia-carmen-guatemala-carmen.htm

#architecture #photography #gothic #colombia

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

Geometric and suave: common green forest lizard

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1animals/green-forest-lizard-photography.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

The House with the Cracked Walls, evoking fragility and unease, with hints of isolation and decline. By Paul Cezanne, 1892–94.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/cezanne/house-with-cracked-walls-paul-cezanne-metropolitan-museum-art.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

The Palazzo dei Normanni, the Royal Palace of Palermo, was first built as a fortified residence in the 9th century during Arab rule, and was later developed by the Normans in the 11th century into a royal palace.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1architecture/palazzo-normanni-palermo-royal-palace-normans-hauteville-sicily-arab-cappella-palatina.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

A horse painted red on its lower half, a common practice in which horses themselves were coloured in this way, the red symbolising the blood of enemies defeated in battle. Mughal tradition, c. 1740.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/muhammad%20faqirullah%20khan/muhammad-faqirullah-khan-horse-mughal-art-painting-emperor-muhammad-shah.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

A fern awakes perkily and gets on with growing.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1garden/fern-fronds-garden-photography.htm

#garden #plants #forest #photography

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

A soulful gaze reflecting years of loyal companionship and gentle wisdom.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1animals/labrador-retriever-dogs-chocolate.htm

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

A charming piece (ignoring that he's holding a severed head), this vessel was likely use in ritual practices within the Nasca culture of Peru. AD 100–650.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/porcelain/male-effigy-vessel-peru.htm

#history #culture #ceramics #art #peru

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

Small promises of sweetness and comfort

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/1food/chocolates-sweet-photography-food.htm

#chocolate #photography #food #heaven

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

Two separate worlds come together momentarily. By Julia Margaret Cameron, 1873–74.

https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/cameron/julia-margaret-cameron-young-man-woman-leaning-fence-picket-photograph.htm

#photography #art #romance #mood

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@UniversalCompendium@mastodon.social · Jan 11, 2026

The daily battle for survival is depicted through an umbrella seller in wild weather. Old Man Struggling in the Wind, by Anselmo Guinea Ugalde, 1882 https://universalcompendium.com/gen_images/ucg/guinea/old-man-wind-umbrellas-anselmo-guinea-ugalde-luchando-viento-paraguas-fundacion-julian-gayarre-ronca.htm #art #painting #work #weather

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