Lucid Madness

[paul-cezanne-paintings]

-Still Life Apples and Pears-

[worldsandemanations]

“Male nude”, 1900s. French School. oil on canvas. antonio-m

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Mars & Venus, Allegory of Peace, (Detail), (1770), by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725 –1805), oil on canvas, height: 852 mm (33.5 in) x 743 mm (29.2 in), Getty Center, Los Angeles

[artforpleasure]

The dream of Icarus, Alfredo Furiati, 2015.

[homobuenosaires-deactivated2025]

J. Carino

[odilon-redon-art]

-Aurora-

[parisartyparisexy]

Maxim Thaanau

[grundoonmgnx]

George Lambert (1873–1930), The wrestlers (The Pugilists), 1910

National Gallery of Australia

[artistprovocateur]

Cornelis le Mair (Dutch, b.1944)Vrouwelijk Naakt Nude girl, 1975

[robert-hadley]

A group of men carry 'Christ and the Wife of Zebedee' by Matteo Rosselli to safety. Florence, 1966. Photo - David Lees for LIFE Magazine, 1966.

[lostfunzones]

Max Ernst, La Mer et le Soleil (The Sea and the Sun). 1926. Oil on canvas.

[hadrian6]

Study of a Reclining Male Nude.1786.  Jan Ekels ll. Dutch 1759-1793. drawing.

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[claude-monet-paintings]

-Rough Sea-

[nobrashfestivity]

Georgia O'Keeffe, It was Blue and Green, 1960

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[portalibis]

The God Ra-Harakhty, human-headed, wearing the Solar disk with the Uraeus. Inside the Sun is represented the sacred scarab of the God Khepry. "Great Temple" of King Sethi I at Abydos, Inner Shrine of the God Ra-Harakhty, detail from the north-west wall.

[thatshowthingstarted]

A Caryatid seen from behind on the Acropolis,

The Caryatids of the Erechtheion were carved in the late 5th century BC at the height of Athens’ Golden Age. Far from the pale stone we see today, they were once painted in vivid colour, with bronze details woven into their hair and robes.

Today, five of the originals are housed safely in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Their missing sister was taken by Lord Elgin in 1816 and remains in the British Museum.

The Caryatids were originally built to stand on the south porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis of Athens. That’s where they supported the roof for over 2,400 years.

This photograph captures one Caryatid gazing over Athens - strong, graceful, and still marked by absence.

A reminder that the debate over the Parthenon Marbles is not only about art, but about identity and return.

Photographed by Walter Hege in 1928.

[7pleiades7]

La Source (The Source) (1893) by Georges Lorin (1850 – 1927), signed bottom left ‘Georges Lorin’, oil on canvas, 36.42 x 29.13 in (92.5 cm x 74 cm), Private Collection