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centuriespast: Pan and Syrinx Print made by Joseph Mallord...
Pan and Syrinx
Print made by Joseph Mallord William Turner
Printed in London
(Europe,British Isles,England,London)
1813-1823The British Museum
How atypical is this?
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yama-bato: Toko Shinoda Title Encounter Medium Sumi-e drawing...
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arthistoryx: Road to St. Remy, 1890Vincent van Gogh
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centuriespast: BOUCHER, FrançoisPan and Syrinxc. 1762Oil on...
BOUCHER, François
Pan and Syrinx
c. 1762
Oil on canvas, 95 x 79 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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regardintemporel: Alvin Langdon Coburn - Erza Pound, 1916
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Charlotte Gastaut, Le grand voyage d’Ulysse
Charlotte Gastaut, Le grand voyage d’Ulysse
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Can you tell me which painting of Girodet this is a detail of? ...
Can you tell me which painting of Girodet this is a detail of?
Thanks to darksilenceinsuburbia we now know that it is not in fact a detail but a whole painting and its title is:
Fingal Lamenting the Death of Malvina
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unusualyoung: Power Slave/Jellyfish soft/1995 no matter what I...
no matter what I do, I can’t find who this image belongs to, if I did, I would include it in my urban album (with proper credits) on Facebook.
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free-parking: Details of works by El Greco
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Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the...
Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). According to myth, the Sirins lived “in Indian lands” near Eden or around the Euphrates River.
These half-women half-birds are directly based on the Greek myths and later folklore about sirens.They were usually portrayed wearing a crown or with a nimbus. Sirins sang beautiful songs to the saints, foretelling future joys. For mortals, however, the birds were dangerous. Men who heard them would forget everything on earth, follow them, and ultimately die. People would attempt to save themselves from Sirins by shooting cannons, ringing bells and making other loud noises to scare the bird off. Later (17-18th century), the image of Sirins changed and they started to symbolize world harmony (as they live near paradise). People in those times believed only really happy people could hear a Sirin, while only very few could see one because she is as fast and difficult to catch as human happiness. She symbolizes eternal joy and heavenly happiness .
The legend of Sirin might have been introduced to Kievan Rus by Persian merchants in the 8th-9th century. In the cities of Chersonesos and Kiev they are often found on pottery, golden pendants, even on the borders of Gospel books of tenth-twelfth centuries. Pomors often depicted Sirins on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.
Sometimes Sirins are seen as a metaphor for God’s word going into the soul of a man. Sometimes they are seen as a metaphor of heretics tempting the weak. Sometimes Sirins were considered equivalent to the Polish Wila. In Russian folklore, Sirin was mixed with the revered religious writer Saint Ephrem the Syrian. Thus, peasant lyrists such as Nikolay Klyuev often used Sirins as a synonym for poet.
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poisonwasthecure: “Dreamland”Edgar Allan Poe illustration by...
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Polls indicate Denmark left victory
Polls indicate Denmark left victory:
The polls have closed in the Danish general election and the count has begun, with exit polls predicting a win for the Social Democrat-led “red bloc” of Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
If confirmed when the final results are published around 11pm it would mean an end to a decade of centre-right rule and defeat for Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen.
Thorning-Schmidt is on course to become Denmark’s first female leader, and she has promised to restore growth to the struggling Danish economy.
The economy has been foremost in voter’s minds after a period when immigration surged to the fore, boosting an anti-immigrant right-wing group, the Popular party. Polls say this has lost ground for the first time since its formation in 1995.
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cavetocanvas: Tightrope Dancer - Kees van Dongen, c. 1910
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artbyadamfriedman.com In his book, Basin and Range, John McPhee...
In his book, Basin and Range, John McPhee explains, “If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time.” I prefer to view the world from a geologic assimilation of time. The human understanding of its duration is skewed and relative to our experience and mortality. On a roughly 4 billion year timeline of Earth’s history, the human inhabitance is barely even visible. Needless to say, the Earth was here long before humans, and will be here long afterwards. I believe that for human beings to think we have the power to completely destroy the Earth is an expression of our vanity and arrogance. Words like “apocalypse” or “doomsday” have inherent religious connotation and suggest that the end of the world coincides with human extinction… But the Earth will go on with or without us, and I take comfort in that fact. Through all of the damage that human beings inflict on the earth (and therefore each other), nature will recover.
In my work I attempt to visualize the imperceptible geologic process by compacting millions of years into a single moment. Rocks bend and grow. Entire mountains crumble in an instant. And the environmental damage that human kind has left in their wake has long since healed. I’m drawn to how geologic processes (erosion, orogeny, etc) relate to our institutions (financial, governmental, etc). I strive to present an era that defies human intervention in the landscape. An optimistic view of the natural world, post human presence.
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