NinaLewis

@ninalewis.bsky.social

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When I still did research, it was on Reformation drama. Now I teach EngLit and try to write some, too. I like kissing stories and history, preferably in one package. Pseudonymous. Vegan. Pigoneer. Introvert. - No unsolicited DMs, please.

Sam Neill as the jealous husband in The Piano, peeking through wooden slats (watching his wife with another man).

Detail of Hans Holbein's "Dead Christ in the Tomb": gnarly naked feet with nail marks, "MD[XX]" and "HH" chiselled into the bottom of the tomb.

Hans Holbein's painting of Jesus' dead body laid in his tomb. Basel, Kunstmuseum.

Detail of Hans Holbein's "Dead Christ": a gnarly, gangrenous hand with a bloody wound from a nail driven through it.

Cover of Anne de Vries' children's bible, showing Noah's arc and pairs of animals lining up to embark.

Statue of a naked man with a mustache, and a torque round his neck. He has a stab wound in his side (Where have I see that before?). "Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE" (Wikipedia)

List of contents of a collection of poems by Theodor Fontane. The letters for f and s still look very similar. "Lady Effex" / Lady Essex"

Drawing of a riot in a Scottish church against the introduction of the Anglican Common Prayer Book, 1630s.

detail of Lely's portrait of Oliver Cromwell, showig warts and all

Garderobe hole in the wall of #Harlech Castle, #Wales. (Garderobe = old word for toilet.)

Antike Statue der Mondgöttin Selene / Luna, mit einem Halbmond als 'Hörnchen' auf dem Kopf.

Nazis destroying a Jewish home during Reichsprogromnacht, Nov. 1938, probably in Fürth, Germany

Coloured photos of Janina Novak, who escaped from Auschwitz, was re-interned but survived the war. Heroine! Source: https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/2018-4-3-faces-of-auschwitz-janina-nowak/