OH, ARTEMIS!

Mary Oliver, from When Did It Happen? in “Felicity: Poems”

Florence + the Machine / Delilah

Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 25  (via juansendizon)

Ancient Egyptian faience amulet depicting a horned deity (Khnum?)  Artist unknown; ca. 664-30 BCE (Late Period or Ptolemaic).  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Painted limestone relief depicting the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III (r. 1458-1425 BCE).  From the foundations of the temple of Ramesses IV at Thebes; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Nichiren Going into Exile on the Island of Sado, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)

Cabinet of Curiousities

The Iceberg, Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

Pre-Columbian ceramic figurine of a dog, found in the Mexican state of Colima.  Artist unknown; ca. 200-500 CE.  Now in the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.

The Fall of Icarus, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636

Circa 1620-1625

Edouard Bisson — The Three Graces. details. circa 1899

Two Cats by Xu Beihong (ca. 1895-1953). 

In response to the closures of both the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum due to the partial government shutdown, I will be posting highlights from both collections indefinitely until these museums are reopened.

// virtual art curator