"Cliffhanger"
Abandoned villa, Chemin du Raidillon, Saint-Pierre-en-Port, France
@virtuteetarmis / virtuteetarmis.tumblr.com
"Cliffhanger"
Abandoned villa, Chemin du Raidillon, Saint-Pierre-en-Port, France
Philosophy - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (1st) Oil on canvas, 100x120cm
Ideal - Dmitry Kochanovich, 2019 (2nd) Oil on canvas
The Hermes of Loulan by unknown artist 200-400 CE. Height: 140 mm (5.51 in); width: 130 mm (5.11 in). National Museum, New Delhi.
"Fragment of a tapestry showing right portion of the face of a man with the staff that reminds one of a caduceus. The face-cut, large eyes, the brown curly hair and the complexion as well as the staff indicate that the man is from a European country instead of Central Asia, India or China. It shows strong similarity with the figures found in the wall paintings from Miran."
-taken from GoogleArtProject
Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844 -1905, Italian) ~ Fisherman and Mermaids in the Blue Grotto on Capri, n/d
Amazing video about Western Eurasia prehistory (European prehistory).
Polychrome female face from Vulci (Tuscany), now in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome. The find dates back to the 1st century. B.C. @Maria Enrica Ceccarelli
"Enough of the squalor of democratic humanity.
Time to recognize the aristocracy of the sun.
There will form a new aristocracy, irrespective of nationality, of men who have reached the sun.
In the coming era they will rule the world."
—D.H. Lawrence, "The Sun Worship"
Edit after Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Karl Friedrich Thiele and Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)
Ghost Flock by Alasdair Wallace (b. 1967)
This 14th century door at Exeter Cathedral, UK, is thought to be the oldest existing cat flap.
A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & a 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France
Eidsborg Stave Church in Norway. Images from book “The Art of Scandinavia" (1970)
Late Bronze Age baby bottles from Austria, dated to around 1200-800 BC. Similar pint-sized vessels were found across the European continent, with some of them still having ruminant milk residue inside suggesting that it could have been used as a supplementary food during weaning
Sasanian plate of Goddess Anahita 5th-6th C. CE.
Philosophical Tree materializing in a glass retort
Pseudo-Lull
engraving, ca. 1470
#alchemy #treemagick #sacredtree
Tocharian B Love Poem, manuscript B496, 6th-7th C. CE
"…a thousand years, [you will] tell [our] story. [I thus announce, [here]tofore there was no human being dearer to me than [you]; likewise hereafter there will be no one dearer to [you] than [me]. [Your] love, [your] affection, [my] jubilant song rises up! Along with life [itself], this should not come to an end for [my] whole life. I was thinking: “I will live with one love well [for the whole of my] life, without any deceit, without…” The God [of Karma] alone recognized this, my thought. Thus he provoked a quarrel; it ripped out my heart [that belonged] to [you. I]t led [you] afar, it tore me apart, it turned me into a partaker of all sorrows; he took away the consolation [I had] in thee… my life, spirit, and heart, day-by-day…"
-Cf. the transcription and translation in J. P. Mallory and Victor H.Mair, The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000), p. 273.
Sasha Waltz & Guests’ new choreography for Beethoven’s 7th symphony at the temple of Apollo at Delphi (2021) (x)