just an art historian

this is my (art) history sideblog || she/her || 24 || Dutch || I have a BA in art history and a MA in architectural history and heritage studies

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Henrietta Rae (English-British, 1859-1928) Psyche before the Throne of Venus, 1894

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

yk what I love? that the first text we have written by a woman in England was a Roman woman inviting her best friend to her birthday

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

it’s from Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Lepidina and dated to around 97-105 AD. I find it so comforting to know that even almost 2000 years ago people had friendships like these and wanted to spend their birthday together.

We aren’t so different from each other after all

[kiefbowl]

Happy Birthday Claudia Severa!!!!!!

[mysterium-solis]

Cupid Carving His Bow (detail) by Parmigianino (c. 1533-1535)

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

Berliner Dom

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

I just got the message that I officially graduated from my master's degree! I'm now officially an architecture historian!!

[catullus101]

The so-called Leningrad Painter gave us the only example of a woman working in a vase studio in Attic art on this mid-fifth-century BC hydria, the Caputi Hydria

[detailedart]

St. Matthäus-Kirchhof Cemetery in Berlin, Germany

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

Schloss Augustusburg, Brühl

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

Iconologia Ouero (1603) Cesare Ripa

[lucybellwood]

hi sorry s'cuse me but were NONE OF YOU GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT BLACK BOOKS OF HOURS???

LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT GOTH-ASS SHIT

EGADDDDDDD

THE IRON-COPPER SOLUTION USED TO DYE THE PAGES WAS SO CORROSIVE THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW SURVIVING EXAMPLES

THESE BOOKS WERE LITERALLY TOO METAL TO LIVE

i can't

[usurperss]

Artists who know how to draw armors or very detailed clothing are powerful

[usurperss]

oh to draw embroidery like Alexander Roslin does

[ashadeofpemberley]

See it’s stuff like this that makes me believe that selling your soul to the devil in exchange for talent was a real career track in the 1700s.

[tenderloincherub]

On Dionysus

E. R. Dodds in his Introduction to Euripides' Bacchae

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Knight of the Flowers (1894)

— by Georges Rochegrosse

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

"darkness confers sanctity."

The Bacchae, Euripides, translated by John Davie

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

this reminds me of my classical mythology lecturer in uni. He told us that he had a 'great idea for a school trip', that would entail us looking for a very dark cave, so dark that no natural light could reach.

Then we shouldn't eat or drink for a day or two and venture into the dark with only a little oil lamp to guide us. And then he said "In that infinite darkness I guarantee that you will find the gods."

Safe to say, we did not do that, but i think of this often

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

"darkness confers sanctity."

The Bacchae, Euripides, translated by John Davie

[belladonna-moon-deactivated2024]

“The myths of Dionysos are dominated by an initial fierce resistance to the god, in the same way that we refuse to recognize the wild forces in us until we are overwhelmed by their power.”

[Ariana Stassinopoulos, “The Gods of Greece”, 1950, p. 97]

[illustratus]

Pentheus Pursued by the Maenads by Charles Gleyre