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Why do their faces always look like they're so done with everything?

We may read the expression as a side eye, but they were most likely going for contemplative (because people and Saints in the Middle Ages all died terrible deaths.) Medieval life was full of death…and the plague…and the bad plumbing…and basically Monty Python. And images reflect that.

Bonus pic: This Jesus not caring about anything is one of my favorites in our collection.

—Bryan

#medieval art #so done #don't care #the plague

thegetty

Can you explain the significance of the butt trumpet? Why is there more than one?

Butt trumpets were used as a grotesque pun and symbol representing sodomy and vice, they were often shown in depictions of hell.

-Alex/Bryan

#medieval art #butt trumpet

thegetty

what's the funniest piece of medieval art you've ever encountered?

These nuns picking “Fruit” are pretty great. They are from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France!

#medieval art

maichan808

Hamilton Hijinks @ the National Portrait Gallery

Security only came over once to question our antics, but we didn’t get thrown out, so all-in-all I consider this endeavor a SUCCESS!

linmanuel

BAHAHAHAHAHA ARE YOU READY TO TRUMBULLLLLLLLL

#hamilton #art history #presidential portrait

cgtnofficial

China’s 600-year-old Palace Museum has recently announced a three-year deal with the tech-giant Tencent, to jointly promote traditional Chinese culture to the young generation in China.

A collection of creative works based on some traditional paintings of the Palace Museum has been released, in which an ancient character, believed to be one of the Emperor Yong Zheng’s concubines, were seen using Virtual Reality gadgets talking to the emperor, or using memes talking with other girls in the palace.

It is not the museum’s first attempt in promoting traditional culture through modern technologies in recent years. It has previously launched its own mobile application, and offers a variety of products on its official online store. In 2015, the museum’s revenue from creative products reached nearly one billion yuan (150 million US dollars). Tencent, which enjoys 877 million registered users, is expected to build a bridge between Chinese youth and traditional culture.

#art history #chinese art #gif art #art gif

alibrariangoestoikea

Humour with the taxidermy vertebrates at the Harvard Museum of NatHist, prt. 2

#museum life #natural history

alibrariangoestoikea

Humour with the taxidermy vertebrates at the Harvard Museum of NatHist. :p

#museum life #natural history

textsfromyourexistentialist

When ur late to the meme game w/ #roylichtenstein, existence shade provided by #taylorswift, thx to #kimandkanye. 🍵🐸

#art history #modern art #existentialism #roy lichtenstein #talor swift #taylor smith

neougly

The Birth of Venus (1483-1485), Sandro Botticelli (Italy)

Venus after Botticelli (2008), Yin Xin (Chinese)

#art history #contemporary art #boticelli #birth of venus #Venus

books0977

Nissrine, a Moroccan girl, reads an application for a Dutch citizenship course. An alternative version of Johannes Vermeer’s painting Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. Photo by Jan Banning.

“Xenophobia, especially Islamophobia, is rising in many European countries…I feel it is necessary to mobilize against such intolerance. My ‘National Identities’ series gives immigrants the main role, using them as models in my photographic variations on classic paintings.”

#art history #contemporary art #vermeer

freeaudiotours

Is this museum worth it?

Well, you came in here so you tell me.

(via freeaudiotours)

#museum life #customer service #visitor services

class-struggle-anarchism

Crowdfunding fails to keep an important cultural artefact at home in Victoria.

A very old dance was drawn in 1897 by a very old man named William Barak whose descendants describe his artwork as “our Bible.”

Earlier this week the artwork titled ‘Ceremony’, was auctioned and bought by an anonymous buyer for over half a million dollars, setting a new record for this artist’s work, but leaving his descendants the Wurundjeri people “shattered and gutted” at the loss of such critically important cultural heritage.

“I would have liked to have shown this to my children,“ said Wurundjeri Elder Annette Xiberras.

“I never really knew how we painted ourselves for ceremony. That painting there showed you how we painted ourselves, it showed you the clothes we wore, it showed possum skin drums. How many people knew our women played possum skin drums? It was so important the stories there. It’s just another little bit of my culture, another little bit of my people that someone has taken from me.”

shameful