All Things History & Culture

#Built Beauty

• Inscription: “Chimaridas [dedicated this] to [Artemis] Daidaleia” (on skirt) ΧΙΜΑΡΙDΑΣΤΑΙDΑΛΕΙΑΙ Σ in retrograde.

Dionysus, Ariadne and Satyrs  __  Amphora, attributed to the Andokides Painter                             and Lysippides Painter,  ca 520 - 510 B.C.

Medium: oil,canvas

Καρυάτιδες- Μουσείο Επιστημών και Βιομηχανίας, Σικάγο.

Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980), ‘The Challenge’, 1934 Source

Greek Helmets [1024X681]

Gold Ryal, Queen Mary c.1553 - 1554

via reddit

Gold necklace, part of the Treasure of El Carambolo. 9th to the 6th centuries BCE, Tartessian/Phoenician. From the Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Sevilla.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/study-of-david-by-michelangelo-1505

Utagawa Yoshitora (fl. c. 1836-1882), ‘John Adams’,  ’'Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi’’, 1861 Source

https://www.wikiart.org/en/michelangelo/tomb-of-lorenzo-de-medici-1531

Icon Saint Warriors George, Theodore and Demetrius #Byzantium, #Constantinople, Late 11th - early 12th century Source: @state_hermitage

https://www.wikiart.org/en/raphael/ceiling-1514

(via @lonequixote)

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436861