iloveotterstehe

[iloveotterstehe]

I just wanna say I’m sorry for not posting in a while again, I’ve been very busy. ( Thank you for the support, it means a lot! xx ❤️, feel free to send requests on what you want )

Starry Night

The starry night painting was originally made by Van Gogh.

He was seeking respite from plaguing depression at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy in southern France when he painted The Starry Night. It reflects his direct observations of his view of the countryside from his window as well as the memories and emotions this view evoked in him.

It is one of the most famous paintings to this day and is held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter ( Van Goh ) and it was painted in June 1889.

Fun facts about the painting

1. Vincent painting this of memory in his studio.

2. He thought the painting was actually a ‘failure’.

3. It was thought he left the iron bars out of the painting because it would have ruined it in his eyes.

[iloveotterstehe]

Aphrodite

The Ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, desire and all aspects of sexuality.

She could entice gods into affairs with her beauty and her sweet whispers of nothings. Aphrodite was born near Cyprus from the severed/cut genitalia of the sky god Uranus.

Aphrodite was worshiped by everyone alike, men, women etc.

(“ The Birth of Venus” which is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli in about the mid 1480s, and it is stored in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy)

Aphrodite is immortal, as she cannot die through natural causes or weapons ( such as steal swords, bow and arrows, etc ) that can easily kill a mortal. Only other gods, divine weapons or other immortals, can probably harm her.

She was married to Hephaestus, the blacksmith of the gods, but Aphrodite had many lovers among the gods, as well as among the mortal men. Her lovers included Ares, the god of war, and the mortal Anchises, a Trojan prince with whom she had a famous son, Aeneas. Her most famous lover, however, was the handsome and young mortal Adonis. Aphrodite was so attracted by his looks that her jealous husband, Hephaestus, disguised himself as a boar and had killed Adonis. Supposedly, a flower ( the anemone ) sprang up either from Aphrodite’s tears over the death of Adonis or from the handsome mortal’s spilled blood, and even today, the red anemone is considered a symbol of the death of a loved one, or a symbol of forsaken love.

The Greek poet Hesiod recounts that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus, the personification of heaven, after his son Cronus threw them into the sea. Hence, why the goddess's name comes from the Greek word aphros, meaning “foam”

All photos found on Pinterest, just search up ‘aphrodite quotes’

Thank you for reading, if you have an requests on a certain god or goddess ( Greek or Roman etc ) please ask, you can check my pages other post if you’d like to see what else I write. Sorry my first information post took so long to come out, I’ve been busy on a vacation 😭❤️.

[iloveotterstehe]

On this account, I will talk about things like Astronomy, Ancient history ( specifically Greek and Rome, maybe Egyptian, etc ), the ocean, dinosaurs, old ancient paintings, and random things that people might like me to talk about, if you’d like something specific, please send it in a comment or anonymous.