Category Archives: art

Portrays A Preserved Head

Posted on August 14, 2022 by ubu507

Once thought to be war trophies, severed heads among the Nazca (100 BC–AD 800) were ritual objects of unknown purpose. The figure portrayed on the vessel has its mouth sewn shut with cactus spines. The Field Museum, photographer John Weinstein

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Salammbo

Posted on August 13, 2022 by ubu507

Desiré Maurice Ferrary (1852–1904)Lady Lever Art Gallery

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Feel It?

Posted on August 11, 2022 by ubu507
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Pan

Posted on August 10, 2022 by ubu507

PanUnknown artistStockwood Discovery Centre It’s that time of summer when things get a little crazy…and we with them

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Excuse Me

Posted on August 9, 2022 by ubu507

excuse me butthis is what we havethis is what we havein these bags of skin

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Sunday Morning

Posted on August 7, 2022 by ubu507
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Ceres 2

Posted on August 5, 2022 by ubu507

Coade’s Artificial Stone Manufactory and John Sealy (1749–1813)Burton Constable Hall

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Ceres

Posted on August 4, 2022 by ubu507

Panel from a tavern interiorunknown artistHertford Museum

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Ceres (Summer)

Posted on August 3, 2022 by ubu507

1717-18 Jean-Antoine WatteauOil on canvas, 142 x 116 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington

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Peggy in Blue and White

Posted on August 1, 2022 by ubu507

[1912]Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883–1937)National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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