Category Archives: Mythology

Figure of a woman holding her breasts

Posted on August 11, 2012 by ubu507

900–600 B.C. Middle Preclassic  Place made: Mexico / Guerrero / Princeton University Art Museum

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Last Judgement

Posted on July 25, 2012 by ubu507

POURBUS, Pieter (b. ca. 1523, Gouda, d. 1584, Brugge) 1551 Oil on oak panel, 228,5 x 181 cm Groeninge Museum, Bruges

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Head of Medusa

Posted on July 17, 2012 by ubu507

Italy (probably, made) 17th century Unknown (print-maker). The Victoria and Albert Museum

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Roundel

Posted on July 15, 2012 by ubu507

Place of origin: Limoges, France  Date: ca. 1500-1520 (made) Artist/Maker: Master of the Louis XII Triptych (circle of, maker) Painted enamel on copper with paillons (foil-backed translucent enamel areas) and gilding, in later gilt wood frame This roundel depicts Herod Antipas and his … Continue reading →

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Cadmus and Harmonia

Posted on July 10, 2012 by ubu507

Cadmus, turned into a snake, embraced by his wife Harmonia;.illustration to Renouard’s French translation of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ (Paris, veuve Langelier, 1619, p.117); letterpress text on verso. c.1619 Engraving Print made by Michel Faulte The British Museum

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Mermaid Wallpaper

Posted on July 7, 2012 by ubu507

. Place of origin: England, Great Britain (made) Date: 1879 (made) Artist/Maker: Crane, Walter (R.W.S.), born 1845 – died 1915 (designer) Jeffrey (manufacturer) The Victoria and Albert Museum

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Venus

Posted on June 21, 2012 by ubu507
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In Yab-Yum Mode

Posted on June 9, 2012 by ubu507

A gilded bronze figure of the Dharmapāla Yamari or (after von Schroeder 1981) Rakta-Yamantaka (ie Rakta [red]-Yamari [enemy of Yama]); in yab-yum mode Tibet, 17th Century The British Museum

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Venus at Her Toilette

Posted on June 6, 2012 by ubu507

ca. 1582 Veronese (Paolo Caliari) Joslyn Art Museum

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Sabrina and Her Nymphs

Posted on May 28, 2012 by ubu507

by William Etty Date painted: 1841 This is what happens to nymphs: they are pursued or they are left. Sometimes, like Echo, they are fled. We turn to trees, seabirds, seafoam, running water, the sound of wind in the leaves. Men come … Continue reading →

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