Apollo and Marsyas

Apollo and Marsyas, from the ‘Stanza della Segnatura’, 1509, Raphael.

 

 

Source: artist-raphael

Link: Raphael Biography

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Egyptian Art

 

Female Musicians

Artist: Charles K. Wilkinson

Period: Twentieth Century; original New Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 18

Reign: reign of Thutmose IV

Date: A.C. 1920–1921, original ca. 1400–1390 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes; Original Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Djeserkareseneb (TT 38)

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1930

 

 

Chalice fragment showing a file of nude females in a marshy landscape, inscribed, associated with 2013.635

Period: Third Intermediate Period

Dynasty: Dynasty 22

Date: ca. 945–712 BC

Geography: From Egypt

Medium: Faience

Dimensions: 9.9 × 4.8 cm (3 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Cassilly, 1983

 

Source: met-egyptian-art

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Gorgeous mediterranean villa, dating back to 1890

Croatia-based architecture studio TOBIS Engineering recently finished Villa Martinuzzi, a gorgeous Mediterranean villa located in Pula, Croatia. The house was dating back to 1890.

 

 

Studio: Architectural office TOBIS-inzenjering

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Alphonse Mucha, art

 Alphonse Mucha, a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist.

 

 Dance, 1898

 

Living Room

 

Art Nouveau

 

Bleu Deschamps

 

Poster for the Brooklyn Exhibition, 1921

 

Cycles Perfecta

 

Sarah Bernhardt

 

6th Sokol Festival

 

La Dame aux Camelias

 

Luchon, 1895

 

Biography:  alfonsmucha.org

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Heracles and the centaur Pholos

 

Attic black-figure oinochoe, artist unknown; ca. 500-490 BCE.  Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain, Madrid.  Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.

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A fragment of a painting from the tomb of Nebamun. British Museum, London.

 

Source: egypt-museum

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Royal cartouches of pharaoh Amenhotep IV “Akhenaten”

 

Source: Egypt Museum

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