Art Details

Come on in, the Hell is fine. This comes from a Medieval Bestiary written around 1175.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi aka Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1445-1510, b. Florence, Republic of Florence, now Italy, d. Ibid) - Madonna of the Magnificat (detail), c. 1481, Paintings: Tempera and Gold on a circular Wood Panel (Tondo)

Researching composite horse Mughal miniatures

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dieric Bouts - Virgin and Child. Detail. 1465

Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia.

British Library, Add 42130, fol. 104r

Detail of paintings from Nebamun's tomb chapel. Theban Necropolis, Egypt.

Aboriginal Design Pattern on a La grange aboriginal shield from Kimberley

Iron door of Sagrada Familia (2009)  by Josep Maria Subirachs 

source: Paris, BnF, Français 143, fol. 130v

the God Horus of Behdet in His form of sacred falcon spreading His wings in protection and holding the ‘Ankh’ (Life). Detail from the White Chapel of King Sesostri I at ‘Ipet-Sut’ (“Karnak”), the highly sacred Precinct of the God Amon-Ra at ‘Uaset’-Thebes

pauta saila (1917-2009), owl, 1964-5, stonecut print

Detail from Tryptich of the Adoration of the Magi Hieronymus Bosch 1494

digitally enhanced

source: Paris, BnF, Latin 1156 B, fol. 135r

The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Roman before 79 AD.  

Datail — Ecce Homo, c. 1674 by Pedro de Mena † Agnus Dei (Lamb of God), circa 1635 - 1640 by Francisco de Zurbaran