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Let's play with fluffy unicorns and bad demons.

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Works by Yuri Hill

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The Caretaker

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Sphinx of the Naxians

Delphi, Greece

560 BCE

12.5 M high total, Sphinx alone 2.2 M

Ionic order

This beauty is one of my favorites. Its early Ionic capital and towering presence are mesmerizing

The Sphinx of the Naxians, also called Sphinx of Naxos, is a colossal marble statue of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and wings composed of the impressive feathers of a prey bird turned upward, and the body of a lioness. It was originally set up on a stele around 560 BCE   next to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi by Naxos, one of the richest Cycladic islands at the time. The Sphinx stood on a 10 meters column that culminated in one of the first Ionic capitals.

The statue of this mythical creature stood on a towering Ionic column, which may have been the oldest Ionic construction project in the site of the Oracle of Delphi. Her statue had been set up close to the Halos, the most sacred spot of Delphi, where Apollo had presumably killed the python. According to tradition and its mythological representation, the Sphinx had the face of a woman bearing an enigmatic smile, prey bird wings, and the body of a lioness. It was carved from a large piece of Naxian marble. The solid construction combined elements that gave the statue a character of motion and vitality, such are the details that depict the hair, chest, and wings. It is also notable because it is an early example of carving in-the-round, as opposed to relief carving that was common during that time. The monument was made entirely of marble and created awe to the visitors and constituted a typical example of Naxian sculpture in its peak period, i.e. in the sixth century BCE

On the base there is an inscription dated to 328-327 BCE, renewing the promanteia (The privilege, bestowed upon cities or individuals by the Oracle of Delphi, to ask the Pythia in priority) for the Naxians:

ΔΕΛΦΟΙ ΑΠΕΔΩΚΑΝ ΝΑΞΙΟΙΣ ΤΑΝ ΠΡΟΜΑΝΤΗΙΑΝ ΚΑΤΤΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ ΘΕΟΛΥΤΟΥ ΒΟΥΛΕΥΟΝΤΟΣ ΕΠΙΓΕΝΕΟΣ Delphi accorded the Naxians the right of Promanteia as before, at the time of archon Theolytos and Epigenes the Bouleutes

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This is a new 3d character I've made while I have the time to do so. Normally I would do the character concept myself from scratch, but not this time. This beautiful dark vampire queen is @larissa_ulrique I saw some of her pictures and got instantly inspired. More of this work will be available soon on my artstation. #3d #vampire #3dcharacter #character #larissa_ulrique #3dart #goth #3dgoth https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8kBnbn1IQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i5ty9ewv12im

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Esao Andrews (Japanese-American, b. 1978, Mesa, AZ, USA) - Pesta (The Plague Hag) from Death And The Maiden 2 exhibition, 2016  Paintings: Oil on Panel

[theancientwayoflife]

~ The Queen of the Night.

Date: 1899-1700 B.C.

Place of origin: Iraq

Period/culture: Old Babylonian

Medium: Fired clay

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Someone painted Patrick over the old Soviet star on top of a building in Voronezh, Russia overnight. The police is investigating this act of “vandalism”.

[thenowisfuture]

“And what do you call this travesty?!” “No, this is Patrick.”

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[laughoutloud-club]

Can’t Imagine Anything Cuter Than This

[househunting]

$1,695,000/6 br/7630 sq ft

Grosse Pointe, MI

built in 1910

[stellabutterfly]

Night on Bald Mountain segment 

— Fantasia (1940)

[hifructosemag]

In a Q&A on our site, “sawdust provocateur” AJ Fosik talks about his wooden sculptures and what he has in store for the SCOPE Miami Beach project marking our upcoming 14th anniversary. Read it here.

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[shisasan]

Flora by Max Nonnenbruch, 1892 (detail)

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by Zaina A

[theslaybymic]

The future of prosthetics is incredibly stylish 

It used to be that prosthetic limbs and style had little to do with one another. Prosthetic limbs have typically had as much style as orthopedic shoes, sheathed in beige fabric to cover the metal and plastic parts within. They lacked originality, they lacked flair and they certainly didn’t reflect the wearer’s personality. Now, that couldn’t further from the truth.

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Dude

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Acquiescence (gravitation series) October 2018