Category Archives: The Sacred

Venus

Posted on June 21, 2012 by ubu507
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Bowl

Posted on June 13, 2012 by ubu507

Know that the world is like Mount Sinai, and we like Moses are seekers; every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder.  — RUMI

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Shadowe

Posted on June 10, 2012 by ubu507

Life in the cycle of the countless rebirths is like a vision in a dream. The gods on high, the mute trees and the stones, are alike apparitions in this phantasy. — the Brahmavaivarta Purana

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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 de Testsheet

Posted on March 14, 2012 by ubu507
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Bodhisattva Tara (Tibetan, Jetsun Dolma)

Posted on March 6, 2012 by ubu507

Artist Unknown, Tibet or Nepal 18th century UMMA

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Durga, seated, with sixteen arms

Posted on March 6, 2012 by ubu507

Artist Unknown, India, South India 18th century UMMA

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The Goddess Vasurimala

Posted on February 28, 2012 by ubu507

Mid 19th Century Indian Art Collection Peabody Essex Museum

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What happened when Actaeon saw Diana?

Posted on February 22, 2012 by ubu507

He got horny. JORDAENS, Jacob (b. 1593, Antwerpen, d. 1678, Antwerpen) Diana and Actaeon c. 1640 Oil on oak panel, 54 x 76 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

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Offering to Ceres, Goddess of Harvest

Posted on February 22, 2012 by ubu507

1618-20 JORDAENS, Jacob (b. 1593, Antwerpen, d. 1678, Antwerpen) Oil on canvas, 165 x 112 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid

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