artwork: Lucas van Valckenborch - "The Tower of Babel", 1595 - Oil on panel - x cm. - Collection of the Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz. - On view in "Architectural Paintings: From the Renaissance to the Century"
Colmar, Musée d’Unterlinden. Martin Schongauer, ‘The Harrowing of Hell’, detail from the Altarpiece of the Dominicans, c. Why do medieval demons always have faces on their bums?
Classic pseudomorph of Malachite after Azurite from the famous Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Well-developed bladed crystals of Azurite mostly form as parallel groups
Bismuth, a REAL heavy metal, (mostly) stable and non-toxic , with a half life of billion years, dude. This stuff is awesome. I'm definitely going to look into this Great link.
Smithsonite-Azurite, "Bird's Nest" Touissit Mine, Morocco Jeff Starr Collection : Smithsonites : Mineral Photographer - Professional Gemstone and Specimen Photography by Joe Budd.
Dioptase on Chrysocolla: my personal favorite of all the stone as it invokes goddess energy, wards off negative energy, and promotes meditation and communication by aligning one with the divine.
