I can see the moon

Ancient Roman carnelian intaglio depicting a grasshopper driving a chariot being pulled by two butterflies.

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢

No. 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe), 1964

signed, partially titled and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1964 #15' (on the reverse) oil on canvas

93 × 69 in. (236.2 × 175.3 cm.)

📸 thanks to Mark Cashion who takes a lot of good pictures from auction houses and contributes them

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This is one of my personal favorites and it's up for auction because Agnes Gund, who bought it directly from Rothko, died and she was one of the good people in that world.

‘Girl with Leaves’ (1948)

Bronze helmet, armor, and sword from an Etruscan Warrior's tomb in Lanuvium (modern Lanuvio, Italy) 5th century BC

Aboriginal with boomerangs

LAKOTA SIOUX HEADDRESS

GREAT PLAINS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, C. 19TH CENTURY

Frank Weston Benson (American,1862-1951)

The Long Journey, 1926

The Venus of Lespugue

Female Gravettian statuette (26,000 and 24,000 y/ο) Mammoth ivory, approx H 15 cm Grottes de Rideaux, Lespugue [ lɛspyɡ ], Haute-Garonne, France Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Humanity), Paris

Of all the steatopygous Venus figurines discovered from the Upper Paleolithic, the Venus of Lespugue, appears to display the most exaggerated female secondary sexual characteristics.

According to textile expert Elizabeth Wayland Barber, the statue displays the earliest representation found of spun thread (!), as the carving shows a skirt hanging from below the hips, made of twisted fibers, frayed at the end.

ecanthos' gif

'As if an angel dropped down from the clouds’, drawing by William Blake, 1809. Pen and grey ink, watercolour.

Illustration to 'Henry IV, Part I' IV, i, 108-9, formerly in an extra-illustrated second folio edition of Shakespeare (1632)

Remedios Varo (Spanish-Mexican, 1908–1963)