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Title: Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night Artist: Dora Wheeler Keith (American, 1856-1940) Date: 1886 Genre: mythological art Medium: silk embroidered with silk thread Dimensions: 114.3 cm (45 in) high x 172.7 cm (68 in) wide Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

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Vintage Polish postcard ……artwork by Stanisław Eljasz-Radzikowski. circa 1910. 

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Kosciol Mariacki (St. Mary’s Basilica), Kraków

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from the book "Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales Retold for Little Children" ~ 1952 ~ illustrated by James Caraway

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Stolen from reddit where it wasn't being properly appreciated

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The real reason why you need to be social is the best chinese place within 10 miles is an unknown hole in the wall with a yearly marketing budget of $15 dollars and you will never, ever find it unless someone tells you about it.

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Lover's Eye Bracelet

c. 1860

Watercolor on ivory set in a gold bracelet

probably British

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Alméry Lobel Riche - Danseuse Russe (ca. 1915-1920)

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Another gem from my latest ROM visit that filled me with immeasurable glee:

Look at that little owl!! He's so goofy and cute and so dear to me and so so very clearly a LITTLE OWL (Athene Noctua) which is, of course, the species of owl that represents Athena

Look at how small that little guy is:

Athena holding a helmet and a spear, with an owl. Attributed to the Brygos Painter (c. 490–480 BC). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. And, look at these incredible further examples cute little owls in pottery:

Armed owl. Attic red-figure Anthesteria oinochoe, ca. 410–390 BC

Skyphos with Owl between two branches of olive wood. Attic red-figure pottery. Archaeological National Museum of Spain.

Attic red-figure kylix, owl between two olive branches. Found in the Mengíbar Necropolis. Archaeological National Museum of Spain.

Owl skyphos. From Most na SočI, end of the 5th century BC. Tolmin Museum.

Owl skyphos. Attic, mid-5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix. Attic, dating 480–470 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I just wanted to share these because they also always make me smile. One of my favourite things about going to the museum has always been looking at sculptures and pottery.

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Persephone sketches

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lusila̱ks - light a fire inside, or, raven the phoenix. my sticker design for pride month 🏳️‍🌈🔥

i've gotten lots of comments on my 2021 art of raven as a two-spirit interpretation, here; i've continued to reflect on it as new people keep talking to me about it. i've esp thought about it in relation to how important transformation is as a concept in tsimshian culture and oral history. reflecting on the famous adaawx of him stealing the sun, i imagined the sun giving off its rainbow of light and enveloping him, and likened that to a phoenix, which are also symbols of transformation. i'm very proud of this design!

i'll be honest, it's been a weird month in an already weird year. my gf and i had a really close call in our first ever car accident a week ago. we're miraculously unhurt, but we easily could've been, badly. this and other events just have me reeling, and are humbling me. i'm grateful and lucky to still be here. lusila̱ksu - i'm building my fire inside. even when it's so, so difficult

if you'd like to support me this month, it's available on my patreon until the 30th. luk'wil t'oyaxsut 'nüüsm da txa'nii goo (thank you all for everything), and safe and happy pride 🧡

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Professor of Assyriology, Matthew Stolper, standing in front of the Colossal Bull Sculpture from Persepolis.

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it’s so much fun to make a character who really really really wants just one thing and then never letting them get it.

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Tray of Jeweled Daggers

Turkish

probably late 19th century

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An exquisite Roman glass skyphos (two-handled cup) with a cameo of charioteers, dated to the first half of the 1st century AD.

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Head of a woman

* Taranto

* 3rd - 2nd century BCE

* Archaeological Museum of Taranto

Attribution:

Fabrizio Garrisi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons