windbound & seasick

Mark Daniel - Kolmanskop, 2008

The object in question was, as noted above, a large chest found in the antechamber.  It was decorated with scenes of Tutankhamun in battle, riding a chariot and shooting his enemies with a bow and arrow. It contained multiple clothing and jewellery items, as well as footwear and a head rest, and even an archery gauntlet.

Details of Laocoön’s sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus, from the Laocoön and His Sons, an ancient Roman statue likely dating to the 1st century CE. Currently located in the Museo Pio Clementino, a section of the Vatican Museums. Source: Ancientrome.ru.

Neoclassical copy of the Diana of Versailles, dated to the 19th century. The Diana of Versailles is a Roman copy of a lost Greek bronze, the Roman copy dating to the 1st or 2nd century CE. The lost Greek original, traditionally thought to have been one of Leochares’s works, would have been dated to c. 325 BCE. Marble. Source: Sotheby’s. 

From the “Unseen Versailles” series (1980s).

me: if only there were obvious signs

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov (via watchoutforintellect)

melodie @ cacharel ss11

Artist: Algirdas Javtokas Title: VXXXXVXV Technique: oil on canvas, texture Size: 12 x 12 in (30 x 30 cm) Year: 2014

Adriana Varejao