James Lucas ✓
@JamesLucasIT · Join 60,000+ readers → · joined 08 Aug 2018
Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Zoom in on this image. It's not a photograph.
It's called Moonrise, painted in oil in 1884 by Polish artist Stanisław Masłowski, and it hangs in the National Museum in Kraków. It shows almost nothing: a wide, dark sky, a still stretch of water, a low bank of sand, a few bare htt
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No one painted water like the Norwegian impressionist Frits Thaulow https://t.co/y0vvsl45zn
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Somewhere in the world is a painting worth 250 million dollars: it has been missing for 36 years, and the museum it was stolen from is still offering ten million dollars to get it back...
The painting is The Concert, by Johannes Vermeer, made around 1664. It is a small, still ht
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She was the most beautiful woman in Paris, and this painting ruined her. That is why, even now, no one is allowed to call her by her real name...
John Singer Sargent painted this portrait in 1884. The woman is Virginie Gautreau, an American born beauty who had become famous in h
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This is not a photograph.
Every leaf and every reflection was put there by hand, in oil, by the Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted in 1894.
It is called Wooded path by a river, and it captures the hardest thing there is to paint: a forest in full sunlight. Light through trees ht
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You have to zoom in on her face because these may be the most beautiful eyes ever put on canvas, and once you understand what she is looking at, they become almost unbearable...
The painting is Joan of Arc, made by the French artist Jules Bastien-Lepage in 1879, and it hangs in
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The British lost America, and on their way out, they did one final petty thing that left this painting unfinished forever...
Benjamin West began his Treaty of Paris in 1783. It was meant to capture the moment the American Revolution ended: the peace between the newly independent
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When a boy wrote to C.S. Lewis, worried that he loved Aslan the lion more than he loved Jesus, Lewis told him something you would never expect...
Instead of saying the lion was just a character in a book, he told the boy he could not possibly love Aslan more than Jesus. Because
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They say the devil hates his servants the most.
Here's why...
This painting is called Allegory of Satan, or Lord of the World, painted around 1900 by the Polish artist Ludwik Stasiak. It is not the devil you might expect. There are no flames, no chaos and no horns leering out h
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Caravaggio is known as the “Master of Light,” and this may be the most important beam of light he ever painted…
This piece, titled The Calling of Saint Matthew, dates to around 1600 and still hangs in the Roman church it was made for. A group of men sit hunched over a table, htt
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America now spends more paying interest on its debt than it spends on its entire military. Ancient Rome faced a similar fiscal crisis, and it didn’t end well...
In August of 2026, the US national debt crossed 40 trillion dollars, having doubled in less than ten years. The https:
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This painting depicts one of the most heartbreaking farewells in art history...
It's called Ein lieber Besuch, "A Dear Visitor," and it was made by the Austrian artist Max Kurzweil in 1894. A mortally wounded officer lies in bed, and a fellow soldier lifts him gently so he can h
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@JamesLucasIT For those interested, I explained about the Restoration & Rediscoveryof this great piece of art.
Have a short read.
Cheers 🥂 🙂
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DID YOU KNOW??
The Antikythera Ephebe (or "Antikythera Youth"), a stunning 6.4-foot ancient Greek bronze statue retrieved from the seabed in 1900, is an absolute artistic mystery because no one knows who he is actually supposed to be or what he was originally holding.
Pulled h
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@JamesLucasIT I never knew that the eyes had disappeared from the other statues. I assumed that was what the sculptor intended. That certainly changes things.
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This statue is over 2300 years old.
It's one of the very few ancient sculptures left with its original eyes, and I can’t get over how real they look...
The statue is the Antikythera Ephebe, a Greek bronze of a young man made around 340 to 330 BC, and strangely enough, the https
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More than 2400 years ago, the greatest democracy in the world was starved into surrender because its enemy seized one narrow strait.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. And it's hard not to notice that we have built our modern world on the same fragile https://t
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Anyone who has ever had a dog knows this look. It's the one they give you when they can tell something is wrong, and they have decided they are not leaving your side...
This beautiful painting is called Fidelity, and it was made by British artist Briton Rivière in 1869. A young
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The Victorians had a perfect nickname for the artist who painted this. They called him a "marbellous" painter, because no one who ever lived could make cold white marble look so real, so sunlit, so touchable, that you feel you could run your hand along it...
The artist is Sir ht
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The most powerful method ever invented for controlling a population is distraction. Ancient Rome perfected it 2000 years ago, and it is being used on you right now...
For centuries the Roman citizen was the proudest political animal on earth. He voted. He chose the men who led h
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@JamesLucasIT One thing, these were not just “people they called family”. They called their family members, their wives/husbands, sending messages to their children and parents.
This is what a whole generation of today has lost touch with.
Making a Family is everything.
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@JamesLucasIT Terribly
Devastating day 💔
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@JamesLucasIT „In the end, love is all that matters.“
Always and forever. 🫶🕯️
Thank you. 🙏✨
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The last phone calls made by 9/11 victims to their loved ones:
"I just wanted to let you know I love you and I'm stuck in this building in New York. There's lots of smoke, and I just wanted you to know that I love you always."
— Melissa Harrington Hughes, in New York for a https
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I've always thought that if I could paint, I would spend most of my time painting the ancient world: Rome, Greece, the Mediterranean in its golden age. Then i found an amazing artist who actually did it, and did it more beautifully than I could have dreamed...
This one is called
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The man who painted this was born on this exact day in 1774. His most famous painting hides something on purpose, and it's one of my favorite details in all of art history...
It is called Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, made by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich around http
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This is not a photograph, and it's not an oil painting. It might be the most unbelievable watercolor ever made...
It's called Sommarnöje, which means something like Summer Delight, and Anders Zorn painted it in 1886. Look at the water, the gentle ripples, the reflections, the ht
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This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and almost everything you assume about the two people standing in it is wrong...
The painting is American Gothic, made by Grant Wood in 1930, and it hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. It actually began with the house: Wood
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This looks like a photograph. It's not. It's an oil painting made in 1883 by Peder Mørk Mønsted.
It's called The Woodland Glade. Sunlight pours down through a high forest canopy and scatters across the ground in a thousand shifting patches of gold and shadow, each one placed htt
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Every petal in this painting was copied from real roses, sent to the artist weekly from the south of France. It depicts a scene from ancient Rome, and once you know what is really happening in it, you cannot look at it the same way again...
The painting is The Roses of https://t
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45 posts dos últimos 90 dias, ao lado da faixa de 100K–1M seguidores. aparece muito além do próprio público, e esse público reage.
Mediana de visualizações51 087esta conta5 983mediana para 100K–1M
Alcance, %6.23%esta conta1.49%mediana para 100K–1M
Engajamento, %3.17%esta conta0.93%mediana para 100K–1M
| Métrica | Esta conta | Mediana para 100K–1M | Proporção |
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| Mediana de visualizações por post | 51 087 | 5 983 | 8.54× |
| Alcance (visualizações ÷ seguidores) | 6.23% | 1.49% | 4.18× |
| Taxa de engajamento | 3.17% | 0.93% | 3.41× |
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
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Reposts12.2%25 597 in total
Replies1.3%2 673 in total
Quotes0.5%1 142 in total
Bookmarks10.9%22 777 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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