#classical beauty

[splendidgeryon]

Immortal Lovers (Plate 19) By Troy Schooneman

[anatomicalmartyr]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau + The Four Times of Day

L’Aurore (Dawn) - 1881

Le Jour (Day) - 1884

La Crépuscule (Twilight) - 1882

La Nuit (Night) - 1883

[lake-lady]

I have smile lines because sometimes I smile.....

[art-81-art]

Artwork: Nicholaas Chiao, Baba, 2022, mixed media on paper

[letsgostealthelouvre]

I can’t believe we’re still doing antelopes on combs in the year 868 CE. 

This comb is, as far as I can tell, from Thebes, and dated to 868/905 common era. The addition of the bird is new, and the antelope has become very stylized, but the earliest example of this theme, of the ungulate on the comb, dates back to possibly as far as 3800 BCE; Egyptian combs appear to have featured artwork of antelopes for, as of this comb, over 4,500 years. I think it’s some kind of pun but I can’t begin to know how to research that. 

In this earlier post, I showed two combs separated by two thousand years, the same distance of time that separates us from Julius Caesar. This comb is over two thousand years later than the newer of those two combs, and human history is so relatively recent that it’s hard to offer a scale. We don’t really have a way to indicate a span of four thousand years, but to put it in context, the oldest written religious text we know of is only about 3200 years old. 

[ID: An image of a double-sided wooden comb, with a fine-tooth side and a wide-tooth side; in the middle, where a person would hold the comb, is an engraving of a bird with a vulture-like beak, which seems to be attacking an extremely stylized antelope, with long spindly legs, enormous horns, and an almost rabbit-like head.] 

[antoniocortesicello]

Portrait of a cello

[romantic-vintage-vibes]

[icewatercastles]

Poppy Daze

Dreamy Beauty photographed by Amber Gray

video directed by Amber Gray

www.ambergray.net

Model: Elena Terekhova

Makeup: Yuko Takahashi

Hairstylist: Cash Lawless

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[flommus]

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[inkedberries]

sanguineterrain left this tag from my previous art post about bruce being 40s heartthrob coded and they are SO right!!!!!! can't stop thinking about it!!!!!

men don't know if they want to be him or own him

this man is a single mother

[splendidgeryon]

Javier Trelis Sempere

"SUNBATH"

Soft pastel, sanguine and acrylic on wooden board.

60x40 cms (16 "x24")

Pintura disponible.

[anatomicalmartyr]

”(...) at a century’s distance, each became known as her time’s great beauty. Like Mérode, Récamier embodied Tinan’s ideal of the national beauty, and exerted similar control over her images, fashioning and promoting through them a persona that blended innocence and seduction.”

-Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture, by Michael D. Garval

[happyheidi]

… 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑 ✩✰

[hoshizoralone]

comm for a samus comic based on that one tony hawk tweet. this would happen to her.

[letsgostealthelouvre]

Yesterday I featured one of my favorite things I’ve learned from this tour of the Louvre, the “antelope on comb” motif that is more than 4,500 years old. Today we have a mystery of a different sort: a comb showing a man conquering a lion, flanked by other lions, birds, and yes -- an ungulate down there in the lower left corner. 

I don’t think this is in continuity with the antelope-combs, but on its own it’s a fascination, since this is a “liturgical” comb, and we don’t know what the point of it was. From the record: 

The role of liturgical combs is not well known: it is possible that they were used in cathedrals during ceremonies for a bishop. [....] Bordered by a pattern of large palmettes, Samson, recognizable by his long hair, wrestles with a lion whose jaws he spreads. This iconography symbolized Christ's fight against evil; we cannot exclude that it is another episode, David killing the lion when he was a shepherd. This symbolism is taken up by the presence of the lion's head and the ram, the latter recalling the sacrifice of Abraham.

Unlike the previous comb, which was rooted in Egypt where the others also came from, this one originates in France; made around the same time, it’s much more well-preserved and detailed. What does it all mean? Who knows, but someday I’m definitely going to put all of this in a book.

[ID: A well-preserved ivory comb, with narrow tines on one side and wide-tooth tines on the other. In the center, in an archway, is an image of a man grasping and pulling open the jaws of a lion; he is surrounded by dense decorative foliage featuring birds with berries in their beaks. In the lower right is a second lion, which appears to be cowering in fear, and in the lower left is a ram with small curling horns and a delicate build.]