#arriving

[vintage-tigre]

[huariqueje]

A Little Light - Lossapardo , 2024.

French-Senegalese , b. 1996 -

Acrylic on canvas , 35 x 45 cm.

[riverkind]

Stille Ruhe (2024)

Wisaucksickan/Wisamickan, Lenapehoking

[spop-gifs]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Cattle arriving to the La Villette slaughterhouse in the 19th district of Paris

French vintage postcard

[thepersonalwords]

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

[mythologypaintings]

Birth of Venus

Artist: Sandro Botticelli (French, 1445-1510)

Date: ca. 1485

Medium: Tempera on canvas

Collection: Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy

Description

Known as the “Birth of Venus”, the composition actually shows the goddess of love and beauty arriving on land, on the island of Cyprus, born of the sea spray and blown there by the winds, Zephyr and, perhaps, Aura. The goddess is standing on a giant scallop shell, as pure and as perfect as a pearl. She is met by a young woman, who is sometimes identified as one of the Graces or as the Hora of spring, and who holds out a cloak covered in flowers. Even the roses, blown in by the wind are a reminder of spring.