[centuriespast]

A marble head of Alexander the Great that was stolen from a Rome museum in 1960.Credit…Ministero della Cultura

[finitoland]

illustration by akira egawa

[oldpaintings]

Despair, 1905 by Marcel Roux (French, 1878–1922)

[eirene]

Impéria, ca. 1899 Alfred-Pierre Agache

[laboitediabolique]

"Witch Hunter Robin" artwork commissioned for an article in the January 2003 issue of Animage magazine, published by Tokuma Shoten. Scanned from my personal collection. Artwork by Kumiko Takahashi, finishing by Takako Suzuki, 3DCG by Studio Ipse and retouch by KonKon.

[valentineua]

Genoveva in the solitude of the forest (1872) - Edmund Koken (1814-1872)

[shatushka]

Кокетка 💅

[7pleiades7]

Maddalena Penitente (Penitent Magdalene), (Detail), (completed in 2022), by Roberto Ferri (Italian, born 1978), oil on canvas, 119.5 x 162.5 cm (approximately 47 x 64 in), Private Collection

[along-the-silkroad]

Betrayal of Judas, MS. Arm. d. 13 (fol. 12r.), by Mesrop of Khizan (Armenian illuminator, active 1605-1651). Bodleian Libraries.

Mesrop of Khizan (active 1605-1651) was a renowned Armenian manuscript illuminator, scribe, theologian, teacher, and book restorer. Born near Lake Van in the Ottoman Empire, he was relocated with his family to Isfahan, Persia, after Abbas I of Persia forcibly resettled many Armenians in 1604. Trained by his father, a painter, Mesrop spent over 40 years creating beautifully illuminated manuscripts, particularly Bibles and Gospels.

His notable works include the Gospel of 1608 and the Gospel of 1609, the latter preserved at the Bodleian Library and containing a moving account of the suffering of Armenians under Shah Abbas. Art historians praise his works for their energetic settings and symbolic imagery, such as The Baptism of Christ, which depicts Christ standing on a dragon, and Saint John the Evangelist (1615), now housed at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Around 30 of his illuminated manuscripts survive today and are held in major museums and libraries worldwide.

[finitoland]

[venusimleder]

Ph. Guy Bourdin

[finitoland]

the fallen world (1983) - marjorie keller

[bellsofsaintclements]

“El despertar de la criada" (1887) by Argentine artist Eduardo Sívori (1847-1918).

[finitoland]

[momo-y0te]

I think it would be funny if she just retired from the mafia and decided to do modeling instead.

[flamingartofheart]

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, 1886 - oil on canvas

— Henryk Siemiradzki (Poland, 1843–1902)

[finitoland]