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artemisdreaming: “Your work is to discover your world and then...
artemisdreaming: “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” Buddha
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artemisdreaming: David - Michaelangelo (hand detail) Larger...
artemisdreaming: David - Michaelangelo (hand detail) Larger image: HERE
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missfolly: Illustration for ‘The Decameron’ by Gino...
missfolly: Illustration for ‘The Decameron’ by Gino Boccasile Gino Boccasile (14 July 1901 – 10 May 1952) was an Italian illustrator. Born in Bari, Boccasile was the son of a perfumer. Early in his...
View ArticleHey, I see you copied my post on Picasso verbatim. I spend time writing and...
I have supplied the quotation marks, with the following explanatory note to my post… If there is anything more I can/should do, please let me know…. Terribly sorry for the unintended plagiarism: The...
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blogthoven: Illumination from the Liber Scivias showing...
blogthoven: Illumination from the Liber Scivias showing Hildegard receiving a vision and dictating to her scribe and secretary Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179) “Every element has a...
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“The ancient city of Balkh, the oldest in today’s...
“The ancient city of Balkh, the oldest in today’s Afghanistan, is in Indian archeology associated with the Vedic name Bhakri, which later became Bactra for the Greeks, giving its name to Bactria. It...
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Greeks battling the Persians at the Battle of Issue (333 BC),...
Greeks battling the Persians at the Battle of Issue (333 BC), Perdiccas is mounted at right (Incidentally, this site contains the largest selection of images from the Istanbul Archeological Museum,...
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Ptolemy wrestling with Seleucus couldn’t find any...
Ptolemy wrestling with Seleucus couldn’t find any information- image found at: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/fallofgreece/lecture_17.html
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Miniature depicting Seleucus being shipwreckedMS Hunter 371...
Miniature depicting Seleucus being shipwreckedMS Hunter 371 (vol. 1): fol. 147r [Book 5] University of Glasgow
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mdmeguillotine: slashandburn:violetttes:aaaargh: cross-stained: ...
mdmeguillotine: slashandburn:violetttes:aaaargh: cross-stained: Dulcinea XXIX, Lita Cabellut, 2010 the bio from the artist’s page: The Spanish Lita Cabellut was born on 1961 in Barcelona, where she...
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i12bent: Carla Bley And Steve Swallow: Reactionary Tango (In Three Parts) - from Duets, 1988 (via zenzin)
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Sogdians, depicted on a ChineseNorthern Qi stela, circa 550 AD.
Sogdians, depicted on a ChineseNorthern Qi stela, circa 550 AD.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org Iconographical evolution of the Greek...
Source: en.wikipedia.org Iconographical evolution of the Greek Herakles into the Japanese Shukongoshin. Kongorikishi are an interesting case of the possible transmission of the image of the Greek hero...
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The Stoa of Eumenes is not actually a part of the Theater of...
The Stoa of Eumenes is not actually a part of the Theater of Dionysus, but it serves as a such a great backdrop that many believe the two are connected. The Stoa of Eumenes was built by Eumenes II,...
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Coins were thus denominated, from the cista, or mystical...
Coins were thus denominated, from the cista, or mystical baskets, used in the worship of Bacchus, and which were always found figured upon them. In its original sense the term of cistophorus and...
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“Asklepios was more closely associated with the serpent....
“Asklepios was more closely associated with the serpent. The Hellenic religious spirit represented the god as a dignified human figure, very similar in type to Zeus, supporting his right hand on a...
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This coin, minted in Bactria, imitates the most widely...
This coin, minted in Bactria, imitates the most widely circulated coin of antiquity: the Athenian “owl,” which was copied in many different countries. Numismatists disagree whether this coin was issued...
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Diomède dévoré par ses chevauxGustave Moreau
Diomède dévoré par ses chevauxGustave Moreau
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