“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Buddha
artemisdreaming: “Your work is to discover your world and then...
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Donato GiancolaThe Golden Rose
Donato Giancola
The Golden Rose
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artemisdreaming: David - Michaelangelo (hand detail) Larger...
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missfolly: Illustration for ‘The Decameron’ by Gino...
Illustration for ‘The Decameron’ by Gino Boccasile
Gino Boccasile (14 July 1901 – 10 May 1952) was an Italian illustrator.
Born in Bari, Boccasile was the son of a perfumer. Early in his youth he lost his left eye when a drop of quicklime fell in it while he drank from a fountain. Nonetheless, he showed a precocious aptitude for design and completed studies at the fine art school of his home town.
After the death of his father in 1925, he moved to Milan in order not to be a burden on his family. Despite some initial difficulties, he eventually gained a post at the Mauzan-Morzenti Agency. Over the next few years he produced posters and illustrated fashion magazines and gained fame for his sensual renderings of the female form.
Following the lead of fellow poster artist Achille Mauzan, Boccasile went to Buenos Aires for a time where he met his future spouse Alma Corsi. He then leaves again for Paris, where he had an issue of the “Paris Tabou” excellent review dedicated to his work and participated in the 1932 Salon des Independants. Returning to Milan, he opened a publicity agency called ACTA in Galleria del Corso with his friend Franco Aloi, and it is here that he found his real creative outlet. He illustrated for the Italian periodicals “La Donna” (1932), “Dea” and “La Lettura” (1934), “Bertoldo” (1936), “Il Milione” (1938), “L’Illustrazione del Medico” (1939), “Ecco”, “Settebello” and “Il Dramma” (1939) and designed many book covers for the publishers Mondadori and Rizzoli’.[1]
A supporter of Benito Mussolini, Boccasile produced propaganda material for the government. This included several racist and anti-semitic posters.
As the tide of war turned against Fascism he became more and more involved in it, becoming a supporter of the German puppet state RSI, established by Mussolini in Northern and Central Italy after his liberation from the Gran Sasso exile and even enlisted in the Italian SS Division; drawing their recruitment posters and illustrating various propaganda material such as their bulletin.
After the war he was imprisoned and tried for collaborating with the Fascists and although acquitted, he remained an outcast. He could not find work for a few years as his signature was feared by prospective employers.
Nonetheless, he supported himself by doing pornographic sketches for English and French publishers, and by 1946, after slightly changing his style, Boccasile was back at work. He set up his own agency in Milan where he created memorable posters for Paglieri cosmetics, Chlorodont toothpaste, and Zenith footwear, all bearing his signature.
He died prematurely in Milan, from bronchitis and pleurisy, in 1952.
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Hey, I see you copied my post on Picasso verbatim. I spend time writing and editing the post. I'm fine with people not asking to republish the images I include, but would you mind putting the text I write in quotation marks? Because otherwise that's plagiarism, whether or not the image has an embedded link. http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/
I have supplied the quotation marks, with the following explanatory note to my post… If there is anything more I can/should do, please let me know…. Terribly sorry for the unintended plagiarism:
The preceding quote is from the note written by the owner the blog The Daily Artist from where I have take the image also… (with minimal editing to accomodate the pronouns to the single image above- the writer is talking about a series examples in the original text.)
I assume that when I quote a text, it too is from the source from which I have taken image—- Thanks to the warning of the said writer, I now see that this an unwarranted assumption. Apologies to all that I may have misled, and of course to the writer….
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blogthoven: Illumination from the Liber Scivias showing...
Illumination from the Liber Scivias showing Hildegard receiving a vision and dictating to her scribe and secretary
Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179)
“Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.”
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“The ancient city of Balkh, the oldest in today’s...
“The ancient city of Balkh, the oldest in today’s Afghanistan, is in Indian archeology associated with the Vedic name Bhakri, which later became Bactra for the Greeks, giving its name to Bactria. It was mostly known as the centre and capital of Bactria or Takharistan. Balkh is now for the most part a mass of ruins It is considered to be the first city to which the Indo-Iranian tribes moved from the North of Amu Darya, approximately between 2000 BC - 1400 AD.
From the Memoirs of Xuanzang, we learn that, at the time of his visit in the 7th cent AD, there were in the city, or its vicinity, about a hundred Buddhist convents, with 3,000 devotees, and that there was a large number of stupas, and other religious monuments. In 1220 Genghis Khan sacked Balkh, butchered its inhabitants and levelled all buildings capable of defense — a treatment to which it was again subjected in 1370 AD by Timur. Notwithstanding, Marco Polo (end 13th cent) could still describe it as “a noble and great city.” Ibn Battuta (1336) found it in ruins. It has never recovered.”
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Greeks battling the Persians at the Battle of Issue (333 BC),...
Greeks battling the Persians at the Battle of Issue (333 BC), Perdiccas is mounted at right
(Incidentally, this site contains the largest selection of images from the Istanbul Archeological Museum, that I have been able to discover so far).
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Ptolemy wrestling with Seleucus couldn’t find any...
Ptolemy wrestling with Seleucus
couldn’t find any information- image found at:
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The empries of the diadochi (partial)….
The empries of the diadochi (partial)….
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Miniature depicting Seleucus being shipwreckedMS Hunter 371...
Miniature depicting Seleucus being shipwrecked
MS Hunter 371 (vol. 1): fol. 147r [Book 5]
University of Glasgow
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mdmeguillotine: slashandburn:violetttes:aaaargh: cross-stained: ...
slashandburn:violetttes:aaaargh: cross-stained: Dulcinea XXIX, Lita Cabellut, 2010
the bio from the artist’s page:
The Spanish Lita Cabellut was born on 1961 in Barcelona, where she grew up in a poor Gypsy-environment. After 13 years of street and orphan life she got adopted. In this new period of her life she discovers the Prado museum. She become amorous with Goya, Velazquez, Ribera and Rembrandt. One of her preferred statements explaining her passion is: “I married very young, my first marriage was with the art”. I can endorse this is the case of Lita.
Her work is closely intertwined with the memories of the old area of Barcelona, El Raval, with closeness to the docks, La Bocquerai market, Las Ramblas and Sant Antonie market, replete with pickpockets, street performers and of course, prostitutes.
She got her first exhibition on the age of 17 at the Town Hall of Masnou, Barcelona. At 19 she decided to change her native country Spain, for new challenges in the Netherlands, where she studied between 1982-1984 at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Nowadays, Lita Cabellut is considered as a painter with a unique
pictorial language, using a contemporary variation on the fresco-technique and a immensely enjoyable, communicative and recognizable ‘Cabellut-palette’. Lita Cabellut’s ‘human-faced’ paintings are exposed all around the globe, in New York, Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, Barcelona, London, Paris, Venice, Monaco, Seoul and many more cities.
Alain Henry Steegmans
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i12bent: Carla Bley And Steve Swallow: Reactionary Tango (In...
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Sogdians, depicted on a ChineseNorthern Qi stela, circa 550 AD.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org Iconographical evolution of the Greek...
Source: en.wikipedia.org Iconographical evolution of the Greek Herakles into the Japanese Shukongoshin.
Kongorikishi are an interesting case of the possible transmission of the image of the Greek hero Heracles to East Asia along the Silk Road. Heracles was used in Greco-Buddhist art to represent Vajrapani, the protector of the Buddha, and his representation was then used in China and Japan to depict the protector gods of Buddhist temples. This transmission is part of the wider Greco-Buddhist syncretic phenomenon, where Buddhism interacted with the Hellenistic culture of Central Asia from the 4th century BC to the 4th century AD.—-Wikipedia.
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The Stoa of Eumenes is not actually a part of the Theater of...
The Stoa of Eumenes is not actually a part of the Theater of Dionysus, but it serves as a such a great backdrop that many believe the two are connected. The Stoa of Eumenes was built by Eumenes II, King of Pergamon (197 - 159 BCE).
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Coins were thus denominated, from the cista, or mystical...
Coins were thus denominated, from the cista, or mystical baskets, used in the worship of Bacchus, and which were always found figured upon them. In its original sense the term of cistophorus and cistophera were applied to him or her who, in the mysteries of Bacchus, or ofCeres and of Proserpine, carried the cista, which enclosed the sacred serpent. Amongst the Greeks it was the custom for young girls of high rank to bear this mystic chest at public festivals. The medals called cistophori were coined by authority in reference to the feasts of Bacchus, and became the peculiar symbol of Asia.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=cistophori
Above coins of Eumenes of Pergamum…
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“Asklepios was more closely associated with the serpent....
“Asklepios was more closely associated with the serpent. The Hellenic religious spirit represented the god as a dignified human figure, very similar in type to Zeus, supporting his right hand on a staff round which a serpent is twined. His serpent nature clings to him, though only as an attribute and adjunct, in the fully Hellenised form. In the Anatolian ritual the god was the Asklepian serpent, rather than the human Asklepios. Thus in Figure 23 the Emperor Caracalla, during his visit to Pergamum, is represented as adoring the Pergamenian deity, a serpent wreathed round the sacred tree. Between the God-Serpent and the God-Emperor stands the little figure of Telesphorus, the Consummator, a peculiarly Pergamenian conception closely connected with Asklepios.”
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This coin, minted in Bactria, imitates the most widely...
This coin, minted in Bactria, imitates the most widely circulated coin of antiquity: the Athenian “owl,” which was copied in many different countries. Numismatists disagree whether this coin was issued before or after Alexander’s foray into India. Considering the wide variety of styles and artistic qualities in which this coin is found, we feel it was quite possible that the coins were issued both before and after Alexander’s presence in Bactria. This coin bears a monogram that was used later by the Seleucids, and therefore may well have been issued by Seleucos I to pay his troops during the period from 323 to 312 BCE, when he was struggling to consolidate his power.
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Diomède dévoré par ses chevauxGustave Moreau
Diomède dévoré par ses chevaux
Gustave Moreau
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