iskender's Defter

billyjane:

Der Arzt, Das Mädchen, Und Der Tod (The Doctor, The Girl, And Death) by Ivo Saliger, 1920

from blueruins

missfolly:

Titian - Cupid with the Wheel of Fortune, 1520

Titian. The Gypsy Madonna.

Wonder if the title is original?

art-mirrors-art:

Michel de Broin - Superficial (installation/sculpture) (2004)

‘O my Lord, expand my chest and make things easy for me.’

centuriespast:

SPRANGER, Bartholomaeus
Venus and Adonis
1597
Oil on canvas, 163 x 104,3 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

necspenecmetu:

Jacopo Carucci, Two Monks Standing, 1524-5

Apollo flaying Marsyas…

(sorry didnt note where I took it from).

missfolly:

Joseph Stella - The Virgin

bythegods:

The Nine Worthies

The Nine Worthies are nine figures from history/scripture/mythology who were set up in the Middle Ages as archetypal heroes who personified the ideas of chivalry and virtue. All nine were deemed “Princes,” each being leaders in some form or another. In French, they are Les Neuf Preux, meaning “Nine Valiants,” which gives a more particular idea of the sort of virtue and all-around goodness they were meant to embody. The idea of setting up the Nine Worthies was that the study of each of them would form a good education for aspiring princes regarding their chivalry and radness.

The Worthies were first described in 1312 CE by Jacques de Longuyon in his Voeux du Paon. The idea was that good ol’ fashioned Christian virtue predated the coming of Christ, and was present in Pagan and Jewish societies as well. I bet you’re just dying to know who the Worthies were, huh? I don’t blame you. Let’s get to it. They were divided into a triad of triads, as follows.

Pagans:

Hector, the champion of Troy, who fell honourably to the mighty Achilles.

Alexander the Great, who conquered much of the Mediterranean and Persia, spreading the wisdom of the Greeks, as the medieval scholars saw it.

Julius Caesar, who was the progenitor of Rome’s Empire, that would become the bed of Christendom.

Old Testament Jews:

Joshua, who became the leader of the Israelites after Moses, and led the conquest of the holy land, Canaan.

David, the anointed king and Messiah of the Hebrew people, who slew Goliath and whose line was forever chosen by God (Yahweh) to lead his people.

Judas Maccabeus, who led the revolt against the Seleucid empire, and restored the Jewish faith to the Temple at Jerusalem.

Christians:

King Arthur, who in Christian myth was the idyllic king in pursuit of honour, justice, and the holy grail.

Charlemagne, the King of the Franks who turned his kingdom into an empire that would encompass most of western Europe and be the protector of Catholic Rome for centuries.

Godfrey of Bouillon, a medieval Frankish knight who was a leader of the First Crusade, and became the first ruler of the (short-lived) Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem.

A. Decamps
Lithograph
March 3, 1831
8 7/8”w x 12 1/2”h

Freedom (Francoise Désirée)
girl of the people, born in Paris on July 27, 1830. (compare with Delacroix)

necspenecmetu:

Jean-Honore Fragonard, Diana and Endymion, c. 1753

wickedlovelywen:

R&J

necspenecmetu:

Ubaldo Gandolfi, Selene and Endymion, c. 1770

mindsigh:

David Hockney, “Mulholland Drive”

fuckyeahmedievalruins:

Lindisfarne Priory, England (Founded AD 635)

centuriespast:

Poussin. A Snake. Paris, Musée du Louvre

centuriespast:

Aristide Maillol, Woman with a Parasol, 1895, (oil on canvas, 190 x 145 cm.), Musee d’Orsay, Paris

antonio forcione & sabina sciubba in ”meet me in london” album (1997)

“The illustration shows Jang Bahadur with thescore of the Viennese polka written in his honour during his stay in Europe by one of the Strauss family.. The polka itself sounds to me very Viennese and distinctly un-Nepali, but you can listen and judge for yourselves:” at the original site…

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