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Hell’s Monarch by Andres Rios

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Foul Beyond Words

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Franz Ludwig Catel - Carthusian Monks in Certosa di San Giacomo on Capri (19th century)

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Sunset through an arch by Thiophene_Guy

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St. Anthony the Incorrupt Tongue by Andres Rios

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~ Mummy Portrait of a Man Wearing a Laurel Wreath. Date: A.D. early to mid-2nd century Culture: Roman Medium: Lime (linden) wood, beeswax, pigments, gold, textile, natural resin.

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THE SCYTHIANS

The nomadic shepherds of the Eurasian steppes known as the Scythians flourished between the 7th and 3rd centuries BC. According to the ancient sources, they occupied the territory (roughly) from southern Poland to the Black Sea to the Ukraine. They had extensive contact with archaic Greece.

Despite their lack of fixed settlements and agriculture, the Scythians had a highly-evolved artistic metalwork practice. Working with small amounts of metal, goldsmiths fashions decorative clasps, bosses, buckles and other small items used to decorate both horse livery and warrior costume.

The iconography of these objects reflects the close proximity of Tennyson’s “nature red of tooth and claw.” The internecine struggle of predators and prey depicted on these objects probably reflects the bloody warrior culture idealized by the Scythians.

The violence represented in Scythian art is subjected to an overriding aesthetic of stylization and patterning. The use of symmetry and interlocking figures suggests a cyclically-ordered universe in which various opposing forces are subsumed into a broader rhythm. The stylization may also imply a (hoped for) form of human control.

The forms and materials of Scythian art were transmitted through the various barbarian tribes that succeeded them. This was the indigenous art of the Visigoths, Merovingians and Franks which, when adapted to the needs of Christianity, gave rise to the first distinctly medieval art in the 5th - 7th centuries.