Beauty

[romegreeceart]

Roman fresco fragment

* National Museum of Concordia.Portogruaro

Source: Following Hadrian, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

[before-life]

Pont Alexandre III, Paris, 1900

[electronicgallery]

Ancient carved gems

1. Aquamarine oval gem with Kassandra kneeling at the Palladion, late Hellenistic Creek, late 1st century BCE 2. Carnelian gem with Gugustus as Neptune mounting a sea-chariot, Roman, 31-27 BCE, includes dolphin and young triton, owner was probably Popilius Albanus 3. The impression that this gem makes when pressed in wax or clay 4. Carnelian scaraboid gem with a dove carrying a scroll, classical Greek, 450-425 BCE 5. chalcedony scaraboid gem of a griffin clutching the corpse of a youth, late archaic Greek, early 5th century BCE 6. chalcedony scaraboid gem with a 2-horse chariot, classical Greek, late 5th to early 4th century BCE. The position of the horses indicates that they are rounding a post at high speed 7. chalcedony scaraboid gem wtih crouching panther, classical Greek, late 5th to early 4th century BCE 8. chalcedony scaraboid gem with griffin, eastern Greek, classical period, 475-400 BCE 9. chalcedony scaraboid gem with lion, eagle, and snake; Greek, ca. 480 BCE 10. The imprint this gem makes when pressed into wax or clay

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

Sculpture of Queen Arsinoe II

Statue of Queen Arsinoe II identified with the Goddess Isis (black granite). Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BC. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.

[oldroze]

Herbert James Draper (1863 (or 1864) -1920)

Autumn  English Classicist painter

[cma-greek-roman-art]

Victory with Cornucopia (Chariot Attachment), 40-68, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

In Roman times, the arrival of Winged Victory—touching down to earth, her drapery flying behind her—was a moment not just of military conquest, but was the first step toward peace and prosperity. Size: Overall: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.) Medium: bronze

https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.25

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Nude study, ca. 1930

Photographe anonyme. Etude de nu. Vers 1930. Tirage argentique. | src Lumière des Roses, Anonymous online

[sovietpostcards]

Church of Resurrection in Foros, Crimea. Photo by I. Radchenko (1987)

[romegreeceart]

A coin from Narbonne that was the first Roman colony in Gaul, c. 118 BCE.

Obverse: Goddess Roma with a Gallic helmet

Reverse: Naked Gaul warrior holding a speer, a shield and a horn is driving a biga

https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=144845

Source: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.CreatoR: Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann)          Copyright Notice: CC BY-NC-SA            

[oldroze]

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

The Source (1856), Musée d'Orsay, Paris

[electripipedream]

Vassar college girls practicing Greek dances 1923

[sovietpostcards]

Moscow, house of Pyotr Pashkov (1780s) and entrance to the Lenin Library metro station (1935).

[evilbuildingsblog]

The Unfinished Pagoda

[salomi]

Esquiline Venus

Roman copy of the 1st century AD after a Greek original from the first century BC. Discovered in the Horti Lamiani on the Esquiline Hill in Rome.

The sculpture is thought to have been based on an original Hellenistic statue from the Ptolemaic Kingdom. It is also a possible depiction of the Ptolemaic ruler Cleopatra VII.

- Capitoline Museums, Rome.

[cma-greek-roman-art]

Relief of Hermes and Ares, 200s BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

A fine example of Hellenistic interest in violent motion. Size: Overall: 32.7 cm (12 7/8 in.) Medium: limestone

https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.436

[sovietpostcards]

Grodno, Belarus. Photo by Georgiy Likhtarovich (1989)

[hadrian6]

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 1870-73. Peter Janssen. German 1844-1873. oil/canvas.       http://hadrian6.tumblr.com