Visuality Stew

These things sustain.

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Pinax of Persephone and Hades from Locri. Reggio Calabria, National Museum of Magna Graecia. Sometimes death and regeneration are just one step away one from the other.

[cair--paravel]

Art Nouveau gold and abalone pendant with an opal (via).

[v-ersacrum]

Hans Baldung, The Ages of Man and Death, c.1541-1544

[the-paintrist]

Hans Baldung (1484 or 1485 – September 1545), also called Hans Baldung Grien, the “Grien” element being an early nickname after his preferred colour green, was a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer. Throughout his lifetime, Baldung developed a distinctive style, full of color, expression and imagination. His talents were varied, and he produced a great and extensive variety of work including portraits, woodcuts, drawings, tapestries, altarpieces, stained glass, allegories and mythological motifs.

[thunderstruck9]

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925), Gourds, 1908. Opaque and translucent watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 35.1 x 50 cm.

[artist-corot]

Italian Girl, 1872, Camille Corot

[artist-corot]

Saint Quentin Des Pres (Oise), near Gournay En Bray, Camille Corot

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-corot/saint-quentin-des-pres-oise-near-gournay-en-bray

[zinaida-serebriakova]

Autumn Landscape, 1914, Zinaida Serebriakova

https://www.wikiart.org/en/zinaida-serebriakova/autumn-landscape-1914

[met-european-sculpture]

Medusa, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The Milton Weil Collection, 1940 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Onyx

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198633

[ivan-shishkin]

Willows Lit Up by the Sun, Ivan Shishkin

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-shishkin/willows-lit-up-by-the-sun

[artist-mcescher]

Vitorchiano nel Cimino, 1925, M.C. Escher

[archaicwonder]

Viking Gold Mounted Crystal Pendant, 9th-11th Century AD

A pendant comprising a piriform natural crystal pebble bead in a sheet gold sheath with punched pellets to the borders, ring-and-dot motifs, punched triangles with a pellet to each angle; wire loop to the underside, wire coil to the top and loop, twisted wire suspension hoop with coiled ends. 56mm (2 ¼")

[terminusantequem]

Renato Paresce (Italian, 1886-1937), NATURA MORTA, 1926. Oil on canvas, 70,4 x 55,4 cm

[artist-vangogh]

Vase with Zinnias, 1886, Vincent van Gogh

Medium: oil,canvas

[artist-grimshaw]

Reekie, Glasgow, John Atkinson Grimshaw

[artist-savrasov]

Fire in woods, 1883, Aleksey Savrasov

https://www.wikiart.org/en/aleksey-savrasov/fire-in-woods-1883

[artist-savrasov]

Oaks, 1855, Aleksey Savrasov

Medium: oil,canvas

[maurice-prendergast]

Paris Omnibus, 1907, Maurice Prendergast

Medium: oil,panel