Henry Scott Tuke (British, 1858-1929), Looking out to sea, 1911. Watercolour, 21 x 13.5 cm.
thunderstruck9: Henry Scott Tuke (British, 1858-1929), Looking...
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yama-bato: Artist Alex Katz link
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hellenismo: Τετρὰς Ἱσταμένου, IV day From today’s sunset:...
Τετρὰς Ἱσταμένου, IV day
From today’s sunset: fourth day of Mounychion.
- Festival of Eros in the Gardens – offerings to Aphrodite Ourania and Eros.
- Sacrifice to the Heracleidai (Erchia)
The fourth is always sacred to Aphrodite Pandemos, to Hermes and to Herakles, as the symbolic day of Their birthday.
Honors are paid to Eros and Hermaphroditos.
Banquet of the Tetradistai.
“So it is no wonder that the ancient cooks were au fait in sacrificial rites; they presided, for instance, at weddings and festivals. Hence Menander, in his Flatterer, makes the cook on duty at the fourth-day club-feast (Tetradistai) or the day of Aphrodite Pandemos, speaks as follow: ‘Libation! Round with the tripe! Mind what you do. Come Sosias, boy, libation! Good for you! And now pour out. To all above we will pray both Gods and Goddesses (take the tongue), and may Life, Health, and many a blessing come of this, and those we’ve got Heaven grant we never miss!”
Athenaios 14. 659D, describing a private celebration of the Tetradistai in Aphrodite’s honor.
“But take care to avoid troubles which eat out the heart on the fourth of the beginning and ending of the month; it is a sacred day: especially during these sacred days it is convenient to get rid of all the activities that make you suffer, which, if at other times you need to choose them as necessary, in these days you should not.“
The fourth day is also a suitable day for marriage.
(“Leaning Aphrodite known as ‘Aphrodite of the Gardens’…this statue belongs to a series of Antique copies (Naples inv. 6396, Heraclion inv. 325, Louvre Ma 420…) reproductions of Aphrodite leaning on a pillar, the composition and treatment of the drapery typical of the late 5th century BC. The best-preserved copy (in Naples) shows a veiled head also seen on 5th century reliefs and bronze elements where the figure, associated with Eros, is clearly identifiable as the goddess Aphrodite. The presence of this statue-type on the relief reproducing the base of the cult statues from the Athens Hephaesteion, attributed to Alcamenes, enables us to recognise this as a reproduction of the Aphrodite of the Gardens by this same sculptor as described by Pausanias (1, 19, 2). This statue-type was selected and adapted for the cult statue of Aphrodite in the sanctuary at Daphni (northwest of Athens), of which part of the bust survives (National Museum in Athens inv. 1604).”)
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thunderstruck9:Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Minotaure, 25...
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Minotaure, 25 January 1948. Gouache, pen and India ink and brush and grey wash on paper, 27 x 21 cm.
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via-appia: Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1794-96 ...
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"Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers."
“Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.”
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, The burial of the dead (via monsieurleprince)
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.”
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, The burial of the dead (via monsieurleprince)
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ancient-egypts-secrets: The catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa...
The catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (meaning “Mound of Shards”) is a historical archaeological site located in Alexandria, Egypt and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages.
The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funeral cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. Due to the time period, many of the features of the catacombs merge Roman, Greek and Egyptian cultural points; some statues are Egyptian in style, yet bear Roman clothes and hair style. A circular staircase, which was often used to transport deceased bodies down the middle of it, leads down into the tombs that were tunneled into the bedrock during the age of the Antonine emperors (2nd century AD). The facility was then used as a burial chamber from the 2nd century to the 4th century, before being rediscovered in 1900 when a donkey accidentally fell into the access shaft.
It is believed that the catacombs were only intended for a single family, but it is unclear why the site was expanded in order to house numerous other individuals.
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And everytime we say goodbye we die a little.
And everytime we say goodbye we die a little.
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"I want everything – love, adventure, intimacy, work."
“I want everything – love, adventure, intimacy, work.”
- Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf (via violentwavesofemotion)
- Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf (via violentwavesofemotion)
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darksilenceinsuburbia: Bozana Radjenovic // Pietá, 2013
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jaded-mandarin: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingrès. Detail from The...
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingrès. Detail from The Finding of Zenobia by the Shepherds, 19th Century.
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Xinjiang (Sincan) physical geography
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