#classicism

[gasparodasalo]

Johann Christian Bach (1735-82) - Piano Quartet in G-Major, André Op. 2, I. Allegro. Performed by Florilegium on period instruments.

[kustavglimt]

Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet: detail of Female nude, back view (1831)

[eirene]

The love letter

Eugen von Blaas

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

All these people drawing Odysseus and none of them tying him up to his mast all bondagy

[nnay-naee]

"Ugh classics are so boring" Classics:

Iliad, book II, vv. 257-264

[nostalgicacademia]

Hands in art

Psyche in the Temple of Love, by Edward John Poynter,

The Anger of Achilles, by Jacques-Louis David.

Young woman with daisies by Émile Vernon.

[ai-dream]

Dreampool 17.

[antoniettabrandeisova]

The Sehzade Mosque in Laleli, Istanbul (detail), c. 1915. Ludwig Hans Fischer

[bbiancaaa]

when you read Homer, Dante, Dostoyevsky etc and want to be a classicist but the boy you like can’t even spell correctly

[didoofcarthage]

Agate cameo with a bust of a young woman in high relief, possibly representing the Roman goddess Proserpine, after an antique type

Italian, late 16th century (cameo) and late 18th century (gold mount)

Royal Collection Trust

[anglerflsh]

Pygmalion

the rendering of the statue is unfinished because the statue itself is equally unfinished

[katerinaaqu]

Remembering "The Odyssey" (1997) and when I get to the part of the murder of the suitors there is one thing I loved about that movie:

In the moment when the suitors are trying to bend the bow made by Odysseus and try to pull the string in it. They used their hands and failed but then the movie does something incredible. Odysseus uses his leg to bend it and put the string on it which made me realize;

Maybe that is the reason why no one could bend the bow in the first place. Because it was never about strength at all!

Odysseus was known for his strong arms and his capability with Spear and sword but he was never the strongest man out there. However he was known to be the most cunning. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the principle with which he made his bow as well. Maybe the bow could be bended only if someone put a certain resistance to a specific place of it.

So that's why no one ever bended the dang thing. Odysseus built a freaking puzzle-box-bow!

😂😂😂

[eirene]

Medea, 1873 Anselm Feuerbach

[illustratus]

A Corner of the Villa by Edward Poynter

[larobeblanche]

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (French, 1767-1824) • Aurora • Unknown date

[sictransitgloriamvndi]