Visuality Stew

Pinax of Persephone and Hades from Locri. Reggio Calabria, National Museum of Magna Graecia. Sometimes death and regeneration are just one step away one from the other.

Art Nouveau gold and abalone pendant with an opal (via).

Hans Baldung, The Ages of Man and Death, c.1541-1544

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925), Gourds, 1908. Opaque and translucent watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 35.1 x 50 cm.

Italian Girl, 1872, Camille Corot

https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-corot/saint-quentin-des-pres-oise-near-gournay-en-bray

https://www.wikiart.org/en/zinaida-serebriakova/autumn-landscape-1914

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198633

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishkin/willows-lit-up-by-the-sun

Vitorchiano nel Cimino, 1925, M.C. Escher

A pendant comprising a piriform natural crystal pebble bead in a sheet gold sheath with punched pellets to the borders, ring-and-dot motifs, punched triangles with a pellet to each angle; wire loop to the underside, wire coil to the top and loop, twisted wire suspension hoop with coiled ends. 56mm (2 ¼")

Renato Paresce (Italian, 1886-1937), NATURA MORTA, 1926. Oil on canvas, 70,4 x 55,4 cm

Medium: oil,canvas

Reekie, Glasgow, John Atkinson Grimshaw

https://www.wikiart.org/en/aleksey-savrasov/fire-in-woods-1883

Medium: oil,canvas

Medium: oil,panel