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venus & mist

by Denny Bitte

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Portrait of a Woman, Andrew Plimer, late 1790s, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and Sculpture

Sons of a clockmaker, Andrew Plimer and his old brother ran off to live with Gypsies for two years before settling down in London. Andrew was a valet for portrait and miniature painter Richard Cosway and Nathaniel was a servant for the enamelist Henry Bone. Andrew assimilated Cosway’s airy execution and adapted his linear brushwork that leaves much of the bare ivory visible. He also employed Cosway’s use of large, expressive eyes that made his miniatures appear soulfully elegant, earning him high praise. Andrew set up his own studio by 1786 and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts through 1830. Andrew’s works fall into two phases. In the first, his sitters appear more naturalistically rendered than those painted after about 1789. During the earlier period he frequently included his initials on the front of the miniature, followed by a date; he did not sign or date works in the second phase. Furthermore, he reduced his palette and sitters share many visual characteristics; in particular, his women have elongated necks, long noses, and large eyes. Size: Framed: 8.5 x 7.2 cm (3 3/8 x 2 13/16 in.); Sight: 8 x 6.5 cm (3 1/8 x 2 9/16 in.) Medium: watercolor on ivory in a gold frame with glazed reverse

https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.561

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Aquamanile in the Form of a Rooster, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cloisters

The Cloisters Collection, 1989 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Copper alloy

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Marble portrait of a man from a funerary relief, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Rogers Fund, 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Marble

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/250657

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Portrait of a Woman, Jean Baptiste Defernex , 1759, Cleveland Museum of Art: European Painting and Sculpture

The precise rendering of the costume and the unique facial features of the woman indicate this work is a true portrait, although the sitter has yet to be identified. Size: Overall: 39.3 x 24.6 x 14.7 cm (15 ½ x 9 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.); without base: 31.5 cm (12 3/8 in.) Medium: terracotta

https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.155

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The kind of storm I enjoy 🔥 | juusohd

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“Here’s a fun little thought exercise: Review the story of Season 5, from the point of view of Hizdahr zo Loraq. If you’re like most of us, you probably spent the season thinking he was leading the Sons of the Harpy, but E9 kinda disproved that. So, to review: This foreign invader conquers his city “For its own good”, and has his father brutally executed for a crime other people committed; she wasn’t misinformed about his father’s guilt, she just didn’t care, and assigned blame based on social status. Eventually, Hizdahr manages to convince her to be generous enough to let him bury his wrongfully murdered father, rather than have the vultures eat him. During the audience, he probably noticed that she did not have a single Mereenese advisor in her inner circle. Rather than fucking off to watch her fail from a safe distance, he actually tries to help, because he wants to lessen the suffering of his city, and maybe even because he believes in some of the change she brings. For this, he’s treated his hostility, suspicion and contempt, but he keeps trying. One day, though, something really horrible happens, on a scale far worse than any of the death and depravity her siege has brought so far: A person from her continent is killed! Clearly that’s completely unacceptable, so she goes with what she knows: Executing random rich people, this time by feeding them to her dragons. Hizdahr watches one of his comrades be burned to death, ripped apart and devoured by her monsters, and then spends a night in the dungeons expecting the same for himself. Instead, she informs him that he’ll be marrying her (again, remember: This is the woman who killed her father.) At this point, Hizdahr is basically a more noble version of Sansa, dealing with what seems to be a more monstrous version of Joffrey. Then, the last day of his life. When he arrives at the arena after doing some last minute work to try to make sure everything goes smoothly, he’s greeted with the curtness he’s learned to expect from this invader. There’s a new person in his circle - the son of one of the men who betrayed and killed her father. It’s cool, though, because when he showed up he offered his help and advice, so now he’s part of her inner circle. Guess it just helps to be from the right continent - i.e., not the one she’s trying to govern. Hizdahr takes his seat, and enjoys some playful humiliation and threats from his future wife’s asshole lover, and some insults from her and her new advisor as well. She also makes it clear that she’s willing to burn his beloved city to the ground if it doesn’t straighten up and start being the kind of realm she wants to rule. Then, catastrophe: The Sons of the Harpy attack en masse! Hizdahr makes one last effort to be useful, offering to show her a safe way out of the arena, but the Unsullied have more important people to protect, so he’s stabbed a lot. As he falls over bleeding, his Queen’s eyes fill with guilt and affection as she stares soulfully at… someone else, that knight she had exiled a while ago. Then she glances back at him like “Oh, is he dead now?” before scurrying off to leave him to bleed to death.”

— ‘FreakyCheeseMan’  Reddit comment - Link (via guyion)

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The ruins of Grennan Castle, Co Kilkenny. This 13th century fortress was built by an Anglo-Norman lord called Thomas FitzAnthony

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Furniture plaque: wing of a hawk, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1937 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ivory (hippopotamus)

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I posted an article on Goby a few months ago on our website, and it received over a million shares! I also got multiple emails from people and city councils around the world asking about how they could make their own and implement it. One place in Singapore even sent me pictures of the one they now have at their hotel beach, and that it’s actually working! Goby seems to be here to stay! 

>> https://www.instagram.com/yup.that.exists/

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Sadly, mine is going to forever look something like this:

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A day in June, 1895, Isaac Levitan

https://www.wikiart.org/en/isaac-levitan/a-day-in-june

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I’m single because I don’t want anyone to control my life.

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Why isn’t this in a thing in every country!? 

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Stardust | Lake Matheson by  Amarate Tansawet

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Halberd, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor

Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steel, wood, pigment, iron, copper alloy

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The Dream of Constantine, 1464, Piero della Francesca

Medium: fresco,wall