we all fall

the only way to know how these things work is to forgive

[somerabbitholes]

Jan 5 / sunday at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata

[hadrian6]

The Firmness of Jubelius Taurea.  1799.

Jean Jacques Lagrenee the younger. French 1739-1821. oil/canvas. Musee Fabre. Montpellier.

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[arsantiquis]

Reclining Naiad, Antonio Canova (details).

[sainted-places]

Bern Minster, Switzerland.

[minyardy]

Gallery of The 19th-Century Polish Art in the Sukiennice, Kraków

[vonkloecker]

carpe noctem

[urbanhowell-deactivated20160912]

Aesthetics in The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg 1/?

[a-l-ancien-regime]

La Venaria Reale, Galleria Grande, (Great Gallery, stucco ceiling) 

[magic-of-eternity]

Palace of Versailles. France

[darksideofart]

Medusa, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. 1630.

[occultclassicalart]

DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883)

Fallen Angels Edd. Origg. (x x)  (Edd. Licc.: CC0 1.0)

[xshayarsha]

The Barberini Faun

“This statue was found c. 1625 in Rome near the Castel Santa’Angelo, Urban VIII of the Barberini family was pope at the time. He declared the statue to be an inalienable possession of the family, hence his name. c 220 BC.

[spanishlandia]

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

William Wetmore Story (1819-1895) “Medea” (1865) Marble Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Giuseppe Sanmartino. (1720-1793) “Veiled Christ” (1753) Marble Rococo Located in the Cappella Sansevero, Naples, Italy

Over the centuries, the depiction of the veil has acquired its own legend, in which the original commissioner of the sculpture, the famous scientist and alchemist Raimondo di Sangro taught the sculptor how to transform cloth into crystiline marble.

For about three centuries, many visitors to the Cappella, were so amazed by the veiled sculpture, that they wrongly believed it to be the result of a “marblification” performed by the prince, who was meant to have laid a real veil on the sculpture and transformed it into marble over time by means of a chemical process.

[inkxlenses]

Atrio Palazzo Reale di Napoli | by Giuseppe Ferraiolo

[kafkasdiariies]

Duomo di Milano, Milano, Italia