start with the famous one ... by MILLAIS ...i was about to start an ophelia scrapbook for my facebook floral posting ... but ECLECTIC LIGHT had already done almost all the work ...https://eclecticlight.co/2019/08/03/is-there-a-willow-painti…
goltzius, 1588rubens, c1630leonardo da vinciingresnicolas de largillierealbrecht dureranton berjondegasandrea del sartomaurits eschermichelangelo ... to be continued, as & whenever ...
https://pookandpook.com/the-moods-of-time/much of his work was produced as multiple variations ... see below, or research his output ...... and his engineering skills are remarkable to this day ...... to be continued, as & whenever ...
does the character of OMPHALE change much as her myth is retold ?Yes. Omphale shifts quite a bit depending on who is telling the story, when it’s being retold, and what the author wants the myth to emphasize. At the core of the myth, she is…
one of the grandest medicis had the topknot made into a water spout ... so the whole thing got covered in limescale ... then later on, centuries later, somebody hacked off the limescale with a chisel ... etc etchttps://www.getty.edu/publica…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_the_Milky_Wayhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galileihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubenshttps://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/star-myths.htmlRubens and Galileo were friends. That d…
it needs to be said at the start ... this was painted when rubens had already been dead for nearly twenty years ... so i'm guessing its an inspired work of "fandom" ... it was painted in Italy when luca giordano was only 25 or 26 years oldh…
etching published as part of the capricci series in 1785the artist had already died back in 1770his son, giovanni domenico tiepolo, had possesion of his workshttps://www.rct.uk/collection/807843/vari-capriccibut i didn't know that the V&A h…
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi)Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni1489 - 1490Mixed media on panel. 77 x 49 cmMuseo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, MadridInv. no. 158 (1935.6)... this portrait was commissioned shortly after th…
Saccades are NORMAL ... but we sometimes perceive them as GLITCHES ... Doctor Andrew G. Lee explains how the brain succeeds and fails to track rapid movements of objects in our visual field by succeeding or failing to accommodate the natura…
i didn't properly know what Ghost Dance was about, yet i've loved the delicate musicality of this track for DECADES ... so I looked it up at last ... and with a better understanding, so that tears soon came to my eyes ... prince buster's ch…
The Wikipedia article gives a detailed account of the circumstances surrounding the original commission, and then what is known of the work itself and its subsequent history.I'd never thought about HOW & WHY it was carved, only about the fi…