Priapus Ruber

Brown Sugar Spiced Apple and Pecan Crumb Cake

Circle of Giovanni Stanchi - Anthropomorphic Allegory of Autumn.  Oil on canvas 52 7/8  by 38 in.; 134 by 96.5 cm.

Hubertus Quellinus or Hubert Quellinus (August 15, 1619, Antwerp – 1687) was a Flemish printmaker, draughtsman and painter and a member of the prominent Quellinus family of artists.  His engravings after the work of his brother, the Baroque sculptor Artus Quellinus the Elder, were instrumental in the spread of the Flemish Baroque idiom in Europe in the second half of the 17th century.

Roman Tintinnabulum (combination wind chime and amulet/good luck charm), from Pompeii, 1st century AD

classics is a delightful field

And I think that’s beautiful

and it’s beautiful because this is truly the intertextuality that matters

And the fact that ancient authors REALLY liked nude farmers is beautiful

Franz von Bayros  - The Riddle of the Sphinx  (pen, brush, ink, one heightened with white on thin cardboard, c.1912)

Final card for the Ace of Diamonds - the future is golden - abundance, prosperity and manifestation of goals. Prosperity is in your hands, open them up and embrace the positive you deserve to receive! The universe is planning on sending some big gifts your way. 

Four Seasons in One Head, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, ca. 1590

Ancient Greek or Roman bronze statuette of a dwarf with silver eyes.  Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE/CE.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Phallus shrine from Pompeii, Roman, c. 1 - 50 AD

— Macaulay, “Prophecy of Capys

JUG WITH PHALLOI– Shoulder and mouth encircled by separately modelled phalloi. Roman, 1st-3rd cent. A.D. Provenance : The Erotika Collection Christian von Faber-Castell, Kusnacht ZH, Switzerland…

Bes? Transcends Them All. Ethereal Dick. the absolute epitome of the Big Brain meme, if you applied it to manly netherregions. one glance will vaporize you.

Although this work was etched in Castiglione’s native Genoa, the concentration on a mythological subject in a large lush landscape exposes the influence of the French painter Nicolas Poussin, whom the artist likely met while working in Rome in the 1630s.

Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France.