Sapientia mea tam spreta quam chaos est.

My alias is Theron and this is my personal art blog. I value my solitude and independence. I love ancient Greece, nature, mythology, and the human body, among other things.

[abystle]

Satan Summoning His Legions, Thomas Stothard, c. 1790.

[cleopctra]

MYTHOLOGY MEME: [/4] Titans: Mnemosyne

[cleopctra]

MNEMOSYNE was Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words.

As a Titan daughter of Ouranos (Heaven), Mnemosyne was also a goddess of time. She represented the rote memorisation required, before the introduction of writing, to preserve the stories of history and sagas of myth. In this role she was represented as the mother of the Mousai (Muses), originally patron goddesses of the poets of the oral tradition.

[virtual-artifacts]

Etruscan Bronze Figure of a Horse Standing Upon an Integral Plinth. Late Archaic, Late 6th/Early 5th century B.C.E. Most probably from Vulci

[artemisdreaming]

Deux Nus, 1897-98  

René Lalique (identified via: cinematheque.fr)

[art-through-the-ages]

Athena, Herakles, and Atlas with the apples of the Hesperides, metope from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece, ca. 470-456 B.C. Marble, approx. 5’ 3” high. Archeological Museum, Olympia.

[omgthatdress]

Brooch

Karl Rothmüller, 1900

Tadema Gallery

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

David Roberts (1796-1864) - Petra’s Treasury, Jordan. 1839.

[jeannepompadour]

Illustration from an Ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll Book of the Dead

[weromans]

VOLO by JOSEPH RIIPPI

I want you to understand how guilty I feel sometimes just for being alive.

I want to know what soldiers died who would have lived better lives than I have. I want to know what college students have surrendered and swallowed the pills and not been saved. I want to know what I can do to save them. I want to know if they want to be saved. I want to know if, for some suicides, death really is the better option, the path we would all choose in their situation, like euthanasia for the terminally ill, or a medieval traitor who chooses decapitation over being disemboweled.

I want to know what I ever did to deserve a good life.

FRAGMENTVM Because

Ut intellegas quantum vivo me mihi misero interdum scelus sit; noscere milites mortuos qui probius me vixissent atque iuvenes qui mortem medicamine sibi consciverunt nec impediebantur; ego iam impedire hos si velint; scire quo tempore mors omnibus quaerenda sit, sicut aegri somnum vel ad asperrimas poenas damnati secuti feriri quam exinterari malvolunt; scire quae fecerim ut sim dignus beata vita volo.

[gregory-lejeune]

Vitraux, Louis Comfort Tiffany. The second reformed church of Hackensack, New Jersey.

Photos: cc https://www.flickr.com/photos/notmydayjobphotography/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en

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[blastedheath]

Martin Ålund (Swedish, b. 1967), Chemistry 1 : 9, 2013. Oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm.

[speciesbarocus]

michael_hamburg69 - Nuremberg cemetery (2014). Detail.

[lordofvermin-blog]

Fallen angels arriving at Pandemonium, by John Martin

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[marthajefferson]

suammetuit:

mythology alphabet: t - tartarus [(Greek: Τάρταρος)], in ancient Greek mythology, is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. As far below Hades as the earth is below the heavens, Tartarus is the place where souls were judged after death and where the wicked received punishment.

[femme-de-lettres]

Large (Wikimedia)

Though Lionel Noël Royer indeed was, as Christie’s reports, “[a] pupil of both Alexandre Cabanel and Bouguereau,” The Muses’ Garden (of all his compositions) probably betrays that affiliation least.

Though the golden glow of the landscape, the elegant white drapery worn by the muses, and the classical theme itself all suit Royer’s teachers, the landscape-like composition and casual subjects very much depart from their usual styles.

For that matter, though, the painting also marks a departure from a traditional depiction of the muses. Though by no means identical, none of the nine muses are individually identifiable. Their costume—and the setting—is, additionally, really quite tame. And while Minerva appears, she does so in bronze.

Essentially, it looks for all the world like an outdoors gathering of 19th-century classical enthusiasts: intellectual, probably, but hardly mythical.

[latinavivit]

tempus edax rerum est

Time is the devourer of things. (via latinavivit)