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Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis,...

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Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis, 500–550
Byzantine
Marble and glass

Overall 53 3/8 x 33 in. (135.6 x 83.8 cm)

The bust of a richly bejeweled woman stares from this fragment of a floor mosaic that was once part of a large public building. The partially restored Greek inscription near her head identifies her as Ktisis, the personification of the act of generous donation or foundation. To emphasize her role as donor, she holds the measuring tool for the Roman foot. On her right a man extends a cornucopia toward her as if offering a gift; the Greek word for “good” is near his head. Originally a similar figure probably appeared to her left, and an inscription by his head would have completed the legend “Good wishes.”

The classical tradition of personifying abstract ideals continued during the Christian era in many places around the Mediterranean basin, including Antioch (modern Antakya, Turkey), Cyprus, and North Africa. The carefully arranged and sized marble and glass tesserae forming this floor fragment are typical of the exceptional mosaics created throughout the Byzantine world in the 500s.

The Museum acquired the two figures independently. They were restored in accordance with an old photograph of the mosaic in a dealer’s storeroom, showing the figures in their original arrangement before being separated for sale.


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limmynem: Pepper Motion by Artgerm™ `Artgerm Stanley...

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limmynem:

Pepper Motion

by Artgerm™

`Artgerm

Stanley Lau 
Artist | Professional | Digital Art
Singapore
Born and bred in Hong Kong, the multifaceted Stanley wears different hats as an illustrator, designer, concept artist, creative director and co-founder of Imaginary Friends Studios — a world acclaimed digital art studio that produces high quality artworks for the likes of Capcom, DC Comics, Square Enix and other giants in the entertainment and gaming industry. Formally trained in graphic design and advertising, Stanley’s art is imbued with a strong sense of aesthetics and visual fluidity. It is a perfect blend of eastern and western art styles. Better known by his handle Artgerm, Stanley’s art continues to infect and inspire new generations of artists and his ever-growing fan base around the world. Recently, Stanley was contracted by Capcom to provide new character artwork for the upcoming releases of Street Fighter III Third Strike Online Edition.

Colegio San Gregorio. Museo Nacional de Escultura....

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Colegio San Gregorio. Museo Nacional de Escultura. Valladolid

Santo Entierro (hacia 1540)
Juan de Juni (1507-1577)
Madera policromada
Convento de San Francisco, Valladolid. Desamortización.

The famous preacher and writer Antonio de Guevara, director of Charles V, commissioned this work to his grave. The undulating rhythm of their moral antithesis and disappointment over your life that seem to translate into prose the tension developed Mannerist Juni: “My life is not live, but a long dying, my pleasures were pleasures, but a alegrones I bitter and I played, my youth was not young, but I dreamed a dream and I do not know what I saw. Finally, I say that my prosperitywas not prosperity, but a pen and treasure lure of alchemy (1539).

missfolly: Benches at Montmagny (Val-d’Oise), 1906-1907,...

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missfolly:

Benches at Montmagny (Val-d’Oise), 1906-1907, by Maurice Utrillo

Colegio San Gregorio. Museo Nacional de Escultura....

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Colegio San Gregorio. Museo Nacional de Escultura. Valladolid

Sillería de San Benito el Real (1525-1529)
Andrés de Nájera (act. 1504-1533)
Madera en su color y policromada.
Monasterio San Benito el Real, Valladolid. Desamortización.

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Marble grave stele Depicting an athlete with a strigil.From...

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Marble grave stele

Depicting an athlete with a strigil.
From Piraeus (?). 330-320 BCE.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, 888.

On display in the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games in Antiquity.
Ancient Olympia, Greece


Aboriginal Art - Lukas That is the only info given on...

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Aboriginal Art - Lukas

That is the only info given on Pikous’ site at flickr. I Can’t tell whether these are also children’s art.

This textile cloth I bought at a market shop at the Wollumbin...

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This textile cloth I bought at a market shop at the Wollumbin Festival, Aus$ 40.
The Indij-N-Arts artists are from the Bundjalun and Kamilaroi tribal areas of New Soouth Wales. Their art is influenced by their peoples connection to the land, ocean and rivers where they live.
• Naj Indij-N-Arts, 
tel 02 6688 8010, or 0423 919 540

info given at the site

philamuseum: Happy Birthday Constantin Brancusi, born this day...

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philamuseum:

Happy Birthday Constantin Brancusi, born this day in 1876.

Here, a sampling of our vast Brancusi collection

Top row:

Bird in Space, 1924
Polished bronze; black marble base
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Mademoiselle Pogany [I], 1912
White marble; limestone block
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Gift of Mrs. Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, 1933

Bottom row:

White Negress [I], 1923
Veined marble; marble two-part base
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

The Kiss, 1916
Limestone
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

speciesbarocus: Bey Samuel Apiario - Pandora (1582).

Goncharova, Natalia (1881-1962) - 1912 Rabbi With a Cat...

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Goncharova, Natalia (1881-1962) - 1912 Rabbi With a Cat (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh)

digbicks: Non-sign II is an installation by seattle based art...

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digbicks:

Non-sign II is an installation by seattle based art collective Lead Pencil Studio located at the Canada-US border near Vancouver. The sculpture is made from small stainless steel rods that are assembled together to create the negative space of a billboard. While most billboards draw attention away from the landscape, Non-sign II frames the landscape, focusing attention back on it.

2headedsnake: flickr.com:photos:damianmi Frans Masereel, (1889...


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Saint Bernard de Menthon et le diable (Titivillus)Horae ad usum...

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Saint Bernard de Menthon et le diable (Titivillus)
Horae ad usum romanum - Heures de Louis de Savoie (1445-60) - Latin 9473 fol-10v

The Latin text reads as follows:
Septem versus sancti Bernardi 
Illumina oculos meos ne umquam obdormiam in morte nequando dicat inimicus meus prevalui adversus eum. In manus tuas Domine com {mendo spiritum meum}
Source [Ps.12, 4-5] …

burnedshoes: © Milos Bicanski, Dec. 6, 2011, Athens / Greece A...

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burnedshoes:

© Milos Bicanski, Dec. 6, 2011, Athens / Greece

A man walks past graffiti displayed on a building in Athens. Graffiti artists throughout the city are expressing the effects of austerity measures that have plagued the community as Greece continues to struggle in debt while lawmakers today are set to pass next year’s budget.

A splashy comeback for artist John Edward Svenson’s...

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A splashy comeback for artist John Edward Svenson’s sculpture

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