Lu5cus Knowles

Stuff I like

[lu5cusknoles]

Ever since I was young I loved Greek Statuary, and even though I was not the “correct” age I’ve loved reading the PJO books and all of Riordan’s series'.

The New York Times is reporting that a famous but inaccessible collection is finally going on exhibit. 

[sixpenceee]

Noted.

[lu5cusknoles]

From Tom Stoppard’s “The Invention of Love”

Chamberlain: We aren’t anything till there’s a word for it.

AEH: Homosexuals? Who is responsible for this barbarity?

Chamberlain: What’s wrong with it?

AEH: It’s half Greek and half Latin!

Chamberlain: That sounds about right.

[brokenbow]

The last time I saw Herophile… yes, the year was 1509 CE. I’d coaxed her out of her cave for one last visit to Rome, where Michelangelo was painting her portrait on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Apparently she was being celebrated for some obscure prophecy long ago, when she’d predicted the birth of Jesus the Nazarene. “I dont know, Micheal,” Herophile said, sitting next to him on his scaffold, watching him paint. “Its beautiful, but… my arms are not that…” Her voice seized up. “Eight letters, starts with M.” Michelangelo tapped his paintbrush to his lip, “Muscular?” Herophile nodded vigorously. “I can fix that,” Michelangelo promised.

OH REALLY?

DID YOU FIX IT MICHAEL?? wHAT WAS IT LIKE BEFORE? YOU HAD A WOMAN SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU DUDE, YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN A REAL EXAMPLE OF ONE.

[lu5cusknoles]

I hate to be pedantic about this but the original poster shows the Libyan Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel, 

Below is Michelangelo’s Erythraean Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel. I post it here because I think it makes the Sibyl’s objections in TBM, and our original posters joking admonishments to Michael even more pointed.

[autumncozy]

By alixelay

[missymalice]

“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

[lu5cusknoles]

Created from the text of The Lightning Thief

This t-shirt is created entirely from the text of The Lightning Thief. Up to 40,000 words per t-shirt.

New T-shirt from Litographs. For all you Percy Jackson lovers out there. 

[mini-girlz]

Figurine of a running girl (“Lasa”)

Italic, Etruscan Archaic Period Early 5th century B.C.

CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ

Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes

Height: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)

MEDIUM OR TECHNIQUE Bronze

> www.mfa.org

[nevver]

The Man Who Fell to Earth

[liartownusa]

Introduction to Owl Tranquilzers by William Velcrope (1975)

[lu5cusknoles]

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875)

The Angelus.  Between 1857 and 1859.   Oil on canvas  H. 55.5; W. 66 cm 

Paris, Musée d'Orsay.  Bequest of Alfred Chauchard, 1909

[thelastfern]

[books0977]

Salome from “L'Estampe Moderne” (1897). Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Plate. Illustration.

One of two plates Mucha designed for this distinguished series, depicting heroines of antiquity. Salome is a sensuous image in which the dancer is shown wearing an ornate belt and diaphanous attire. She is depicted in the throes of the dance that gave Herod such great pleasure.

[coolartefact]

Winged Athena holding a helmet unearthed inside an Etruscan villa c. 100 BC. National Museum Rome [500x752]

Source: http://i.imgur.com/rW3415T.jpg

[penamerican]

"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations." —Vaclav Havel, born on this day in 1936

[lordbyron44]

Ballerina Yana Parienko - Bolshoi Theatre - Photo by Alexander Yakolev

[sunsetgun]

Happy Birthday Tuesday Weld 

[books0977]

Pygmalion and the Image - The Godhead Fires (1878). Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898). Oil on canvas. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

In Ovid’s version of the story, the scene is set while Pygmalion is at the temple of Aphrodite, praying for forgiveness for the years he has shunned her and begging for a wife as perfect as his marble woman. In his absence, Aphrodite appears in the studio to impart life to Galatea. In physical terms, the painting shows little difference between the two women: the same, unattainable facial expression; the marble colouring; the Amazonian stature.