“I would rather go into battle three times than give birth once.”
Black-figured plate. Made in Athens c. 520-500 BC
The plate depitcts an archer blowing a trumpet. The archer’s unusual costume shows him to be a Scythian. The Scythian people were often employed as mercenaries by Athens in the sixth century BC.
Held in the British Museum.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/b/black-figured_plate.aspx
Posted on Sunday, May 19th 2013
“…tracts on the decline of Classics are not commentaries upon it, they are debates within it: they are in part the expressions of the loss and longing and the nostalgia that have always tinged classical studies.”
Posted on Sunday, May 19th 2013
The Minotaur by George Frederic Watts
1885
oil on canvas
Tate Britain
Posted on Saturday, May 18th 2013
Reblogged from Dido of Carthage
Helen of Troy by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863.
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer by Rembrant van Rijn
Netherlands, 1653
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Posted on Monday, May 13th 2013
Reblogged from Dido of Carthage
Laurent Pecheux, Daedalus and Icarus, 18th century
Posted on Sunday, May 12th 2013
Reblogged from Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
Source necspenecmetu
Marble head of a young woman, perhaps a muse
Greek
Date: 3rd -2nd century B.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Celtic bust of Marcus Aurelius, dates to about 180 AD, from Avenches, Switzerland.
Through his portraits, the emperor is constantly in attendance over his vast empire. The hair is combed back from the forehead, representing a typical Celtic hairstyle and reveals the Gallo-Roman origin of the artist. Hammered from a single sheet of gold, the bust is a masterpiece of craftsmanship.
Courtesy & currently located at the Historical Museum of Bern. Photo taken by Xuan Che
This is a really good example of art from the Roman provinces. The Celtic influences in the sculpture are unmistakable yet the subject matter couldn’t be anymore Roman. A process of Romanization? Or a new hybrid-style of artwork?
Posted on Wednesday, May 8th 2013
Reblogged from Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
Source Flickr / rosemania
bacchus behave! by alma whitaker, 1933 (www.retronaut.com)
polite drinking.
lol.
Great title!
Two actresses at Delphi Festival adorn costumes of classical Greece, December 1930.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic
‘Destiny’ (1885-86) by Thomas C. Gotch (1854 - 1931). Oil on canvas.
Art Gallery of South Australia
Google Art Project: Home via Wikimedia.
Portrait of Carlotta Chabert as Diana the huntress. 1835. Pelagio Palagi. Italian. 1775-1860. oil on canvas.
Sea creatures mosaic, from Pompeii, 100 BCE
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