blackpaint20: The Corpse of Christ by Annibale Carracci
the-hardest-of-hearts-survive: Alessandro Turchi The Virgin and...
the-hardest-of-hearts-survive:
Alessandro Turchi
The Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist
c. 1625
Oil on slate
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
From ARTstor;
Alessandro Turchi painted this moving work in oil on slate, rather than canvas; the varnished slate increases the chiaroscuro (light and dark) effect, giving the figures a greater sculptural sense. Mary, Jesus, John, and Francis are composed within an isosceles triangle, a composition that dates back to the Renaissance. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) has had a vision of the Virgin Mary, and we are here witnesses to it. Turchi was influenced by Caravaggio, Guido Reni, and Annibale Caracci, to whom our painting was once ascribed.
monsieurlabette: Frank Hamilton’s mid-to-late 1970s...
Frank Hamilton’s mid-to-late 1970s illustrations and covers for Doc Savage fanzines.
monsieurlabette: fredrick cayley robinson
"Here are the women with ancient anger in their veins and the cruelty of a goddess in their..."
Here are the women with ancient
anger in their veins and the cruelty
of a goddess in their hearts.
You will beg before her, you
will scream; but Hera never flinched
from the words of a mortal,
so why should she?
Do not stand in her way.
She will burn down your kingdoms,
herself with it, if it meant
your ruin.
- Medea /// (d.s)
amare-habeo: Max Švabinský (Czech, 1873 – 1962) In Paradise,...
amare-habeo: Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888 - 1978)The birth...
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888 - 1978)
The birth of aviation, 1946
Watercolor on cardboard paper, 35 x 27 cm
blastedheath: George Frederic Watts (English, 1817-1904), A...
George Frederic Watts (English, 1817-1904), A Study for Hyperion. Oil on canvas, 67 x 50 cm. Somerville College, University of Oxford.
David Lowery Set to Direct TV Show About a Sex Occultist Who Helped Invent Rocket Science
The series, created by “Black Swan” writer Mark Heyman, will chart the life of Parsons, who helped to pioneer rocket engineering in America. As chronicled in George Pendle’s 2006 book, Parsons was “a mysterious and brilliant man in 1940s Los Angeles, who by day helps birth the entirely unknown discipline of American rocketry, and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley,” per a CBS All Access release.
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Evidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought
“It all started about 45,000 years ago. At that point, people began burned down vegetation to make room for plant resources and homes. Over the next 35,000 years, the simple practice of burning back forest evolved. People mixed specialized soils for growing plants; they drained swamps for agriculture; they domesticated animals like chickens; and they farmed yam, taro, sweet potato, chili pepper, black pepper, mango, and bananas
.École française d'Extrême-Orient archaeologist Damian Evans, a co-author on the Nature paper, said that it wasn’t until a recent conference brought international researchers together that they realized they’d discovered a global pattern. Very similar evidence for ancient farming could be seen in equatorial Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Much later, people began building “garden cities” in these same regions, where they lived in low-density neighborhoods surrounded by cultivated land.”
Russian Avant-Garde: Constructing a New Wave of Modern Art
Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1916
The Russian avant-garde was a modern art movement that flourished in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union from about 1890s to 1930s. Get acquainted with this unique time in the art history by following the movement’s artists right here on Tumblr!
Wassily Kandinsky ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Kazimir Malevich ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Aleksandra Ekster ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Lyubov Popova ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Olga Rozanova ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Marc Chagall ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Ilya Mashkov ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Natalia Goncharova ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Aristarkh Lentulov ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Pavel Filonov ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
David Burliuk ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )
Oleksandr Bogomazov ( Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr )Note: this is not a complete list of movement’s artists and I will keep adding to in in the future.
inhumanstv: Behold The Royal Family! As the Great American...
Behold The Royal Family! As the Great American #SolarEclipse2017 🌑 cast its shadow from west to east, Marvel’s #Inhumans triumphantly emerged.
lionofchaeronea: Standing statuette (bronze with gold inlay) of...
Standing statuette (bronze with gold inlay) of the ancient Egyptian cat-goddess Bastet, holding an usekh-collar topped by a feline head and sun-disk. Artist unknown; ca. 400-250 BCE (Late Period or early Ptolemaic). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.
"History, Mark Twain is supposed to have said, doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/who-owns-the-internet?mbid=nl_170822_Daily&CNDID=49539445&spMailingID=11752372&spUserID=MTkwMDE4MjcyODU1S0&spJobID=1222004934&spReportId=MTIyMjAwNDkzNAS2
post-impress-art: Self portrait with mandolin, 1889, Paul...
artist-rubens: The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and the Infant...
The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and the Infant St. John the Baptist, 1614, Peter Paul Rubens
Size: 102x138 cm
Medium: oil, canvas
amare-habeo: Eduardo Kingman (Ecuadorian, 1913-1997) Praying...
loumargi:Three_Spartan_boys_practising_archery- Christoffer...
Carrie Fisher, who joked about her mental illness, got in one last laugh at her own memorial service
historyfilia: The Kiosk of Qertassi The Kiosk of Qertassi is a...
The Kiosk of Qertassi
The Kiosk of Qertassi is a tiny Roman kiosk with four slender papyrus columns inside, and two Hathor columns at the entrance. It is a small but elegant structure that is unfinished and not inscribed with the name of the architect