This is amazing. I doubt most college freshmen would fail this test these days! It’s sad what’s happened to the education system.
soyouthinkyoucansee:
( Fondue pour cette) Poupee de Cire
-wax puppet-
by Henry Guillaume Schlesinger
Date painted- 1870
ancientart:
Ancient Etruscan golden Jewellery
Courtesy & currently located at the Louvre, France. Photo taken by mararie
soyouthinkyoucansee:
Willem II prince of Orange and Maria Stuart
Willem II (1626-50), prins van Oranje, en zijn echtgenote
Maria Stuart (1631-60)
( 1647, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
abstractbody:
abstractbody:
do you think artists in the middle ages had sketchbooks?
whenever im looking at art like in the renaissance period, its always glorious finished paintings
i want to see what they drew in math class
never
fucking
mind
centuriespast:
UCCELLO, Paolo
Portrait of a Lady
1450s
Oil on canvas, 39 x 26 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
ancientart:
Etruscan Agate Scarab, circa 4th-3rd Century BC
jaded-mandarin:
Élisabeth Charlotte d’Orléans as Venus about to bind the wings of Cupid - Pierre Gobert, 1697.
What kind of evil bitch would bind the wings of a baby god? And how selfish do you have to be, to prevent anyone else from falling in love?
centuriespast:
HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger
St Ursula
c. 1523
Tempera on wood, 96,4 x 41,9 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
23silence:
Henry Oliver Walker - The new moon, 1889
ancientart:
Ancient Roman floor mosaics at the Milreu ruins.
Photo courtesy carltonhobbs
cumber-porn:
bonhwa:
tugamaggie:
callmekitto:
raggedymind:
littledidxeknow:
todaylour:
andthroughthemosstheivycreeps:
impuretale:
beatrixspoke:
saaaaaasha:
hey guys
that is carved
from MARBLE
THAT IS A ROCK
WAT
I have no idea how the artist manages to make it looks like not just cloth, but TRANSPARENT cloth. Amazing.
Hey Guys this is a sculpture of a Vestal Virgin, carved during the roman empire. its my favorite and is pretty fucking awesome.
Blown away
I had the same reaction when I saw this motherfucker in the Louvre
I walked around that hunk of orgasm rock for a good ten minutes trying to figure out HOW.
b-but that’s not how rocks work???!!?
FUCKING BERNINI THO
FUCKING
BERNINI
Veiled Lady by *Bonhwa
totally amazing!
centuriespast:
Eglée Auguie Ney, duchese d’Elchingen, 1st Princess de la Moskowa (1782-1856)
François Pascal Simon Gérard (1770-1837)
1808
The Albany Institute of History and Art
God they knew how to dress back then…I was so born in the wrong time period.
iheartchaos:
Archaeologists unveil the world’s oldest D20
Romans may have used 20-Sided die almost two millennia before D&D, but people in ancient Egypt were casting icosahedra even earlier. Pictured above is a twenty-faced die dating from somewhere between 304 and 30 B.C., a timespan also known as Egypt’s Ptolemaic Period.
Via
lawsoffateherbal:
Vintage Apothecary