Category Archives: Mythology

ATHENE

Posted on June 23, 2015 by ubu507

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Attic Red Figure Lekythos Attributed to the Nikon Painter ca 470 BC

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Perseus and Andromeda

Posted on December 17, 2014 by ubu507

Giuseppe Cesari Italian, 1568-1640 Perseus and Andromeda, ca. 1592 Oil on slate RISD Museum

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Bloomington

Posted on September 28, 2014 by ubu507
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Ulysses and the Sirens

Posted on September 20, 2014 by ubu507

by Herbert James Draper Date painted: 1910 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 110.5 cm Collection: Leeds Museums and Galleries

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The Benghazi Venus

Posted on August 29, 2014 by ubu507

Aphrodite Anadyomene type but cut off (deliberately made this way) at upper thighs Graeco-Roman Provenience: Libya, Benghazi (uncertain) Period: Hellenistic Period Date Made: 150-100 BC Penn Museum

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Divine Nature

Posted on August 19, 2014 by ubu507

Due to the canny subtlety of her efforts And the fiery nova of her beauty She’s become a specific imaginative compulsion A constellation of effects calling the Earth to witness the exercise Of her illusory energy on the Uncertainty of … Continue reading →

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Eve

Posted on July 25, 2014 by ubu507

Sylvia Fein (b. 1919) 1943-44 Egg tempera and oil on panel Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

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Maenads

Posted on July 22, 2014 by ubu507
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Transformation Mask

Posted on January 24, 2014 by ubu507

unknown Kwakwaka’wakw artist (Kwakwaka’wakw)  Late 19th century, red cedar, fur, leather, paint, abalone shell, and string Portland Art Museum

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Okute: The Goddess Kannon Prevents the Hag of Adachi Moor from Killing a Young Girl, no. 48 from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido Road

Posted on October 15, 2013 by ubu507

  Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1852 Allen Memorial Art Museum

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