Roman sculpture of Isis made with black and white marble, 2nd century A.D., Wien Museum [1384×2962]

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Roman sculpture of Isis made with black and white marble, 2nd century A.D., Wien Museum [1384×2962]
Wild game in Gray tone, Giovanni Boldini
https://www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-boldini/wild-game-in-black
Tata with vegetables, Zinaida Serebriakova
https://www.wikiart.org/en/zinaida-serebriakova/tata-with-vegetables-1923
Sternschnuppen, Franz von Stuck, 1912.
Edward Hald
‘Fyrverkeriskålen’ (Fireworks) vase, model no. 248
Engraved overlay coloured glass, designed 1921.
Produced by Orrefors Glassworks, Sweden
Having studied arts and started his career under Henri Matisse, Edward Hald’s long collaboration with Orrefors began in 1917. Despite Hald’s inexperience with glass, he soon understood the potential and properties of this material and applied his figurative compositions to Orrefors’ production.
The ‘Fireworks’ vase was first exhibited in 1913 at the Gothenburg Jubilee Exhibition, where it was an immediate success, and declared by the esteemed advocate of Swedish design, Erik Wettergren as 'Halds masterpiece’. The present version in deep blue glass is one of the most remarkable examples of the model, which was introduced in 1921.
via: Phillips
Wreath from Ur (gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian), 2500 BCE.[1600x1616]
Oiva Toikka
Pair of ‘Pom Pom’ bottles, model no. N526
designed 1970, executed 1970-1972 Coloured glass.
Produced by Nuutajärvi Notsjö, Nuutajärvi, Finland.
via: Phillips
(credit to the makers)
Edward Hald
Ceiling light
circa 1937 Engraved coloured glass, patinated brass
Manufactured by Orrefors Glassworks, Sweden
via: Phillips
Reliquary arm of Saint Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, 1500s, Museu de São Roque, Portugal [574 x 1200]
Bronzino
Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine Callet
Happy Saturnalia! Celebrate wisely
Poul Henningsen
Unique chandelier 1932 - Designed as a wedding gift for Axel Madsen, who was then an employee at the Louis Poulsen’s sales department and worked together with Poul Henningsen between 1931-1933.
Painted copper, patinated brass, painted wood.
via: Phillips
Title: Initial S: A Griffin and Rider Artist: Unknown Origin: German, Germany Date: about 1240 - 1250 Medium: Tempera colors and gold and silver leaf on parchment Description: “Playfully inventive, the artist transformed the opening letter S of Psalm 68 into a pink griffin. This dragonlike creature captures in its fearsome jaw a winged beast, which in turn bites the top of the griffin’s snout. The young man struggling on the griffin’s back twists as much as the letter itself, his actions emphasized by his billowing drapery. Within the tendrils of the vine scrolls that encircle the S, various objects–small animals, a small griffin, a doglike creature, and two heads attached to vines rather than to bodies–contribute to the sense of conflict. This struggle of intertwining forms introduces the cry for help in the psalm’s opening line at the bottom of the page: Salv[u]m me fac Deus q[uonia]m intraverunt aqu[a]e usq[ue] ad animam meam (Save me, oh God, for the waters come in unto my soul). In Christian liturgical practice, the psalms are repeated on a weekly basis according to a set program, the liturgy of the Divine Office. Illuminated psalters facilitated this recitation by signaling each of the eight major textual divisions with large initials. The large initial S marks one of those eight textual divisions in this psalter. ” Source: The Getty
A few more wall paintings from Espoo Cathedral (Finland). This stone church was built in the 1480s and murals were painted in the 1510s. Biblical scenes and daily life of common people are portrayed in these wall paintings. They were also meant to be instructive
July 2016
Alvar Aalto
Rare ‘Café’ chair, model no. 10,68, designed for Rautatalo Café, Helsinki
circa 1954 Leather, brass.
“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.”
via: Phillips
David Plunkert - illustration