Death of the Litigant, from the series Litis Abusus (Abuses of the Law)
Goltzius, Hendrick
1597
Engraving
IntaglioMary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
centuriespast: Death of the Litigant, from the series Litis...
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Title : Cosmic...
Title : Cosmic Battle Faith Matters is Subodh Gupta’s first major solo show in Eastern Europe. For this exhibition, Gupta has created four new sculptures and a series of nine new paintings. With these new works, Gupta focuses on the shifting of national identity and cultural change.
Date(s) : 2009-2010
Material : bronze, paint, wire and lights
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Naqada III tomb - Minsjat Abu Omar - Eastern Delta - ca. 3300...
Naqada III tomb - Minsjat Abu Omar - Eastern Delta - ca. 3300 BCE.
From Naqada II onwards, highly differentiated burials are found in cemeteries in Upper Egypt (cf. Gerzean, ca. 3600 - 3300 BCE). These élite burials contained large quantities of grave goods, with exotic materials such as gold and lapis lazuli. These burials point to an increasing hierarchical society and the wish of the deceased to keep their status in the afterlife, of prime important in the funerary theology under the Pharaohs. In short, the royals had access to the sky of Re, whereas commoners were spirits unable to leave the kingdom ofOsiris.
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A hieroglyphic inscription can be expressed by a sound either...
A hieroglyphic inscription can be expressed by a sound either syllabically or alphabetically. Examples of syllabically expressed hieroglyphs include the glyphs pictured above: a picture of a feather represents syllabically the Egyptian word ma’at, which means “truth” or “justice;” a picture of a beetle represents syllabically the Egyptian word kheper, which means “to exist” or “to become.” A hieroglyph that has alphabetical value is best illustrated with the Ancient Egyptian alphabet, where a selected group of glyphs represent one letter-
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The ways of fortuneLabour and Industry; a naked male and female...
The ways of fortune
Labour and Industry; a naked male and female embrace and kiss; she holds a whip and a spur while he holds a flail; a spade, anvil and hammer lie on the ground.
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oldbookillustrations: A large street in Cairo - Mosque of...
A large street in Cairo - Mosque of Sultan Baibars.
From L’Afrique pittoresque (picturesque Africa), selected passages by Victor Tissot, Paris, 1890.
(Source: archive.org)
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marsiouxpial: ‘Face.’ Miyamoto Kyoshiro
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Isabel Samaras (Isab el Samaras) lives in California. Works in...
Isabel Samaras (Isab el Samaras) lives in California. Works in the genre of pop surrealism . She loves chocolate.Favorite color - red.
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J. Allen St. John (October 1, 1872 in Chicago–May 23, 1957 in...
J. Allen St. John (October 1, 1872 in Chicago–May 23, 1957 in Chicago) was an American author, artist and illustrator. He is especially remembered for his illustrations for the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, although he illustrated works of many types. He taught at the Chicago Art Institute and with the American Academy of Art.
The illustration is from Weird Tales
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harvestheart: Illustration of Coral - Vienna Dioscorides...
Illustration of Coral - Vienna Dioscorides Coral
From 512 AD, a valuable source book for ancient science and early Byzantine art and cultural history.
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The unknown artist who illustrated Lorenz Faust’s 1585 ‘Anatomia...
The unknown artist who illustrated Lorenz Faust’s 1585 ‘Anatomia Statuae Danielis’ did a brilliant job of locating the rulers of the four great world monarchies on appropriate parts of the statue’s armour.
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Bees were important in the Minoan economy, as the honey they...
Bees were important in the Minoan economy, as the honey they produced was the main source of sugar….The bee was used as a decorative motif. The famous gold pendant found at Mallia seems to show a pair of bees kissing. It has been proposed that it may be a pair of wasps fighting instead, on the grounds that the insects look more like wasps or hornets; on the other hand the Egyptians, with whom the Minoans shared many conventions, tended to portray bees in this way, so it is a difficult image to interpret. Archive tablets at Knossos record offerings of honey to the goddess Eleuthia, so it seems likely that some of the large storage jars at Knossos were used to store honey. One of the many legends surrounding the Knossos Labyrinth is the story of Glaukos, a son of King Minos who, while exploring the labyrinth’s cellars, fell into a huge jar of honey and drowned….Honey does make a very pleasant additive to alcoholic drinks, especially mulled wine, and we may assume that at least some of the distinctively flavoured Cretan honey stored at Knossos would have been stirred into wine for consumption in the sanctuaries.
text from: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/08/history-of-beer-part-2.html
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mediumaevum: dated c.1430 Originally in the collections of the...
dated c.1430
Originally in the collections of the dukes of Bavaria, these are considered amongst the earliest surviving sets of playing cards. The cards are made from pasteboard consisting of up to six sheets of paper glued together, over which, on the front side, a layer of gesso was applied. Outlines of the designs were scratched into the surface, while some details were drawn in with pen and ink. The entire surface was gilded and the designs were then painted over the gold. The backs are painted dark red.
The imagery in Hunting Books of the day, and on playing cards such as these which were destined for nobility, was often a parallel comment on moralia and human nature, although in this case the artist has portrayed the theme of hunting in a somewhat idyllic fashion with almost affectionate relationships between the female figures and the animals.
These cards were made by an unknown workshop in southern Germany, possibly Swabia. The artist has freely invented the suit symbols and the court hierarchy in relation to the theme of the courtly hunt.
source and individual cards if you like them
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I hope I do not offend you - but your tumblr's title has always made me wonder. Are you Turkish?
why should I be offended? Yes, I am Turkish, liiving in Istanbul…
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Giant scarab beetle From: Istanbul, modern TurkeyDate:...
Giant scarab beetle From: Istanbul, modern Turkey Scarab beetles lay their eggs in dung and they are often seen rolling balls of dung around. Watching the baby beetles hatch out of the dung, the Egyptians thought that scarabs could recreate themselves and so live forever. They thought that a scarab rolling a ball of dung across the ground was like the sun god Khepri rolling the sun across the sky each day. The sun disappeared in the evening, only for it to be reborn by itself on the other side of the sky the following morning. This huge scarab sculpture is about one and a half metres long, and would probably have stood in a temple to the sun god.
Date: Egyptian, perhaps 332-30 BC
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walkingcollage: Thank-you; regardintemporel. Jung Zseni -...
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oldbookillustrations: Djeddah. From L’Afrique pittoresque...
Djeddah.
From L’Afrique pittoresque (picturesque Africa), selected passages by Victor Tissot, Paris, 1890.
(Source: archive.org)
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Ancient Petroglyphs of Giraffe, Ostrich, and longhorned cow...
Ancient Petroglyphs of Giraffe, Ostrich, and longhorned cow being driven by a human, carved into rocks in what is now desert Gilf Kebir, Egypt.
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The Cave of Swimmers is a cave in southwest Egypt, near the...
The Cave of Swimmers is a cave in southwest Egypt, near the border with Libya, in the mountainous Gilf Kebir region of the Sahara Desert. It was discovered in October 1933 by the Hungarian explorer László Almásy. It contains rock painting images of people swimming estimated to have been created 10,000 years ago during the time of the most recent Ice Age.
Almásy devoted a chapter to the cave in his 1934 book The Unknown Sahara. In it he postulates that the swimming scenes are real depictions of life at the time of painting and that there had been a change in climate since that time. This theory was so new at that time that his first editor added several footnotes, to make it clear that he did not share this opinion.
The cave is mentioned in the book The English Patient and the film based upon it. The cave shown in the film is not the original but a film set created by a modern artist.
Substantial portions of the cave have been irreversibly damaged by visitors in the years since the film was released. Fragments of the paintings have been removed as souvenirs, and some surfaces have cracked after water was applied to ‘enhance’ their contrast for photographs. Modern graffiti has been inscribed upon the wall, and tourist littering remains a problem. Steps have been taken to reduce future damage by training guides and clearing litter from the vicinity, but this important rock art site remains fragile, and risks future disturbances as tourist traffic to the region increases.
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