Friday, June 28, 2024

Holbein's startling painting of the dead Christ discussed by some anatomists ...

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  Religions | Free Full-Text | Anatomical Analysis of Holbein’s Dead Christ in the Tomb and Corresponding Theological Commentary (...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

MOLE

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ANDREW YOUNG ... A Dead Mole Strong-shouldered mole, That so much lived below the ground, Dug, fought and loved, hunted and fed, For you to ...

Light on her toes ...

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Ceramic goddess figurine known as the Venus of Draguseni, dated ca 4050-3900 BC it’s 20 cm high and belongs to Cucuteni-Trypillian Culture. ...

Tanaquil Le Clercq ...

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Here she is in Irving Penn's famous photo with Corrado Cagli, Vittorio Rieti, and her husband George Balanchine. Tanaquil Le Clercq - Wi...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Calligraphic mastery ... inscribing an Islamic text into the outline of a horse ... the THRONE VERSE ... AYAT-AL-KURSI

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  Now kept in the Museum of  Islamic Art in DOHA Here are the notes from the Sotheby's auction of 2011 ... A further top lot,  The Thron...
Monday, June 24, 2024

my only daytime sober-minded hallucination

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Gilt-bronze Cinerary Container of Ina-no-Omura - Masterpieces of the KNM - Kyoto National Museum (kyohaku.go.jp) I went to Kyoto in Septembe...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

byam shaw ... i was interested in his art and was puzzled when i found this drawing ... it turns out to illustrate some lines from a robert browning poem about a mysterious old man in valladolid ...

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bouguereau's LOST PLEIAD takes anthropomorphism in cosmology to the extremes of fantasy ... this painting is more about the lady, less about the stars ... but opens up the interesting question of how astrophysics evolved from astrology ... and how the changes in understanding were both absorbed and resisted by artists

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  a ccording to Wikipedia, the painting's original title was  L'Etoile Perdue ... the Lost Star I would guess the title reflects on ...