#allegory

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[jareckiworld]

August Lanin (1925-2006) — Red Horse (series “Apocalypse") [oil on canvas, 1991]

[solcattus]

Renown holding back Pegasus

By Eugène Louis Lequesne

Photo by Louis-Emile Durandelle

1875

[hopsof]

Lamb to the slaughter

[the-evil-clergyman]

Evening Mood by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1882)

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Conradyn Cunaeus (Dutch, 1828–1895), "Allegorical Depiction of Loyalty and Love" (detail)

[lionofchaeronea]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep, Mary L. Macomber, 1902

[prokopetz]

Like, I'm not gonna say that the X-Men and their various imitators are anything like a perfect allegory, but "it's a bad allegory because super powers really are dangerous" has never held water for me. Like, are we really just gonna uncritically accept the implicit assumption lurking in that argument that bigotry is only wrong to the extent that its targets lack the ability to threaten the status quo? Hand-wringing over whether certain minorities are inherently dangerous is – and, critically, always has been – a smoke-screen for the real conversation about who has the right to possess the capacity for violence, and you can't engage with that conversation if your opening move is to concede that the only legitimate victim is a powerless one.

[eirene]

L’aurore William Bouguereau

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[robreyart]

Cassini Spacecraft Oil, 18 x 24 in, 2018 In our pursuit to understand the solar system we find ourselves in, we sent an explorer on a billion mile journey to the Saturnian system. The Cassini Spacecraft sent back amazing new data and images of Saturn and it's 62 known moons, 46 of which were unknown when Cassini left. We learned that the moon, Enceladus, may have everything it needs to support life deep in it's global ocean, Titan has a liquid methane sea, and so much more.

In 2017, low on fuel after twenty years in space and so much information gained, Cassini took several dives between Saturn and it's rings to learn a little more before it's mission came to an end. To avoid possible microbial contamination of any of Saturn's moons, Cassini dove and burned up in Saturn's atmosphere, while sending back it's final data. Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com

[a-sculpture-a-day]

Nature unveiling herself, Ernest Barrias, 1899, marble and onyx, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

[thatshowthingstarted]

"The Release from Deception,"

Carved from a single block of marble, it depicts a fisherman being released from netting by an angel, allegorical to the man being liberated from his sins.

So intricate was the work that 18th-century philosopher Giangiuseppe Origlia described it as “the last and most trying test to which sculpture in marble can aspire.”

Queirolo worked alone on his magnum opus, without an assistant or even a workshop. Even other sculptors refused to touch the delicate net in case it broke into pieces in their hands.

The masterpiece is housed at the Sansevero Chapel in Naples, with several other miracles of marble. Namely, "The Veiled Christ" (1753) by Giuseppe Sanmartino and "The Veiled Truth" (1750) by Antonio Corradini.

Francesco Queirolo (1752-1759)

Credit: @Culture_Crit

[thinkingimages]

Un Chien Andalou (1929) Directed by Luis Buñuel

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Grasshopper by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre (1872)