Eric

[bronzeageecho]

plaque of eos | c. 460 BCE | greece, classical period, locrian culture

in the michael c. carlos museum collection

[memories-of-ancients]

Mosaic floor tile excavated at Byland Abbey in Yorkshire, England, 13th century

from The British Museum

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Amethyst intaglio with bust of Erothosthenes, Roman, 1st century AD

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

[memories-of-ancients]

Glass jar, Eastern Roman, 4th-5th century AD

from The J. Paul Getty Museum

[spanishroyals]

Her Royal Highness Doña María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orléans, The Countess of Barcelona.

[ggallia]

Bernardo Daddi - Triptych of all saints #Firenze #art #culture #fineart #elegance #painting

[neastars]

Marlene Dietrich - 1932 - Shanghai Express

[heavyarethecrowns]

Edward and Wallis Spam

[heavyarethecrowns]

Edward and Wallis Spam

[bestboxerever]

Painting

[justforbooks]

The heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

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[pipouch]

Le Greco 1541–1614

La Sainte Trinité ca.1577-1579 env.

Une partie de Retable de l'église du monastère de Santo Domingo Huile sur toile

Dim. : 300 x 179 cm.

Musée du Prado

[thatshowthingstarted]

The "Rubens Vase," an Agate Hardstone Carving of c. A.D. 400,

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

It made its way to France, probably carried off as treasure after the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, where it passed through the hands of some of the most renowned collectors of western Europe, including the Dukes of Anjou and King Charles V of France.

In 1619, the vase was purchased by the great Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). A drawing that he made of it is now in Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, inv. 5430.

The subsequent fate of the vase before the 19th century is obscure. The gold mount around its rim is struck with a French gold-standard mark used in 1809-1819 and with the guarantee stamp of the French departement of Ain.

A similar late Roman agate vessel, the "Waddesdon Vase" or "Cellini Vase," in now in the British Museum, London.

The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.

[egypt-museum]

Pectoral of King Shoshenq II

The pectoral of king Shoshenq II displays two falcons at its top, each wearing the Double Pschent Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. They are sitting upon the hieroglyphic symbol for sky, which is adorned with stars.

Below, resting upon a boat, can be seen a lapis lazuli sun-disc, with an image of the enthroned god Amun-Ra-Horakhty before the goddess Maat at its center.

Third Intermediate Period, 22nd Dynasty, ca. 887-885 BC. Tomb of Shoshenq II at Tanis. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 72171 Read more

[camisoledadparis]

Blue Glass Amphoriskos with cupids gathering grapes; from the Villa of the Mosaic Columns in Pompeii. The Pompeian Blue Glass Amphoriskos is a very rare example of ancient cameo glass. This is a type of luxurious vessel inspired by intricate Hellenistic relief-cut gems, extremely popular during the period of the Augustan and Julio-Claudian periods, from 27 B.C. to 68 AD. Based on lengthy research by David Whitehouse of the Corning Museum of Glass, there are only 15 extant vessels and about 200 fragments of Cameo Glass in Museums and private collections today. Roman Cameo objects usually had two or more layers of different colours; the top layer is partly cut away to fashion decoration in low relief against a background of contrasting colour. Most Roman examples are made with two layers, usually white over blue. However, fragments of vessels exist with more than two layers, and sometimes as many as five.

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