Category Archives: Mythology

Psyche Gives Venus the Vessel

Posted on July 12, 2011 by ubu507

RAFFAELLO Sanzio 1517-18 Fresco Villa Farnesina, Rome

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Perseus and Pegasus

Posted on July 12, 2011 by ubu507

PERUZZI, Baldassare 1510-11 Fresco Villa Farnesina, Rome

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All the beings of our world are, in the eyes of the Gnostics, the sediment of a lost heaven. — Jacques Lacarriere

Posted on July 8, 2011 by ubu507

Reddish marble carved votive relief of Selene: a female bust to the front in an arched niche, draped in a sleeved chiton, and with her hair parted in the middle and brought down over her ears, nose now missing, surrounded … Continue reading →

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Gnostic Serpent

Posted on July 8, 2011 by ubu507

Oval red-orange chalcedony intaglio: snake with Gnostic inscriptions above and below. (undated) British Museum If a person has eyes that know how to see, he will look upwards to the heavens and he will see the beautiful image of the … Continue reading →

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Luna

Posted on July 6, 2011 by ubu507

Print made by Monogrammist IB 1528 British Museum

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Danae & Jupiter

Posted on July 6, 2011 by ubu507

Print made by Anonymous 1540-1580 British Museum

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Jupiter et Danaé

Posted on July 6, 2011 by ubu507

 Published by Bance jeune Print made by J F Cazenave Published in Paris 1790-1820  British Museum

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Nymph and Satyr

Posted on July 5, 2011 by ubu507

  After Giulio Romano 1514-1546 British Musuem

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Apollo & Daphne

Posted on July 5, 2011 by ubu507

Print made by Andrea Schiavone 1540-1563 British Museum

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Jupiter appearing in his godly radiance to Semele

Posted on July 1, 2011 by ubu507

with fireballs hurtling towards her After Cornelis Bloemaert (engraving) After Abraham van Diepenbeeck Print made by Bernard Picart Date 1730-1733 (circa) British Museum

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