Megan 2

Posted on July 18, 2012 by ubu507

You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let me fly.

— Rumi

translated by Coleman Barks

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Quodlibet 11

Posted on July 17, 2012 by ubu507

O lovers, lovers, the time of union and encounter has come. The proclamation from heaven has come: Moon-faced beauties, welcome hither!

— Rumi

translated from the Persian by A. J. Arberry

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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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I love finding cool bookmarks in old books

Posted on July 16, 2012 by ubu507

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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 wife Herodias with the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

The Victoria and Albert Museum

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Back to the land of no cars but plenty of fudge

Posted on July 12, 2012 by ubu507

not to mention that other stuff on the street…see ya in a few

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Quodlibet 10

Posted on July 12, 2012 by ubu507

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Portrait of a Lady

Posted on July 11, 2012 by ubu507

NEROCCIO DE’ LANDI
1480s
Tempera on panel, 47 x 31 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

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The Inhabited Depths

Posted on July 11, 2012 by ubu507

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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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