Art History with CQ

After 15+ years of this blog, I now have my own app! art-wanderer.com This blog serves at my art history outlet. Student? Pass your art history exams with https://passed-it.com/

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6th century Celtic cross in Nevern, Wales

Did I touch it? Of course I did (very gently of course)

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Pentre Ifan, West Pembrokeshire

Photo from July 2026

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Pentre Ifan, West Pembrokeshire

Photo from July 2026

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Using Art Wanderer in the wild! 🤩

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Tested live in Wales! Two sites that were not preloaded into the app were identified successfully!!! I am beside myself with excitement! I tested with art in my house and places that are very popular but scanning places randomly and it being recognized is something I’ve dreamed of 🤩

Thank to the 2 people who have downloaded the app so far 😃😃

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Tested live in Wales! Two sites that were not preloaded into the app were identified successfully!!! I am beside myself with excitement! I tested with art in my house and places that are very popular but scanning places randomly and it being recognized is something I’ve dreamed of 🤩

Thank to the 2 people who have downloaded the app so far 😃😃

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Reclining woman in a white chemise (Liegende Frau im weiβen Hemd) 1909 Oil on canvas 95.0 x 121.0cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

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The Birth of Venus (1888) by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

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That is Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s masterpiece, The Rape of Proserpina (aka The Abduction of Proserpina), created between 1621 and 1622 when Bernini was only 23 years old. It’s in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

Art historians call it Baroque drama, the mythological scene where Pluto (Hades), the god of the Underworld, abducts Proserpina (Persephone) to the realm of the dead, while Cerberus—the three-headed hound—barks at their feet.

In ancient myths, rape is meant to mean “to seize," "to snatch," or "to carry away by force."

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Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Seascape with a Yacht in Rough Waters along the Cliffs of Møn" (details), 1869

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Cup (Gobelet à pied). 1769–70. Credit line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/209212

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Coptic textile from Egypt, 4th or 5th century AD/CE, depicting a female dancer. Now in the Louvre.

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Coptic side eye

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The Big Book of Fairy Tales (1911) illustrated by Charles Robinson

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Bronze cowrie container, China, Western Han Dynasty, 206 BC - 6 AD

Uncovered in Jinning, Yunan Province in 1956

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Intricate pattern

The Lindisfarne Gospels (Cotton MS Nero D IV) c.715-720, Northumberland.

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Interrupting my normal posts to share that a butterfly chose to dry off on me this morning and I am still giddy about it

(I saved it from the paddling pool and it decided to climb up my arm and rest on my neck?)

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Attempting my own Minoan inspired phone backgrounds…

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