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[thatshowthingstarted]

Archaic marble sculpture of a recumbent frog,

Shang Dynasty (1600-1045 B.C.),

Length 9⅞ in., 25 cm,

Courtesy: Sotheby's

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TurtleTuesday 🐢:

Bonbonniere in the shape of a turtle French (retailed by Asprey, London), 1906 Parcel-gilt & oxidized silver w/ garnet eyes W 4.5 cm (1½ in.) Via Sotheby's

[livesunique]

Waterkasteel van Moorsel,

Moorsel,Denderstreek, Province East Flanders, Belgium,

Courtesy: Sotheby's

[slobbering]

Death and the Maiden - Camillo Verno (Italian 1870 - 1942) oil on canvas - 63 by 51 cm

With Death and the Maiden Camillo Verno presents the viewer with a classic vanitasor momento mori portrait. Painted circa 1895, the young woman, quite possibly the artist’s wife and model, is embraced from behind by a leering skeleton, clearly symbolic of the shortness and fragility of human life and the inevitability of death.  Death and the Maiden was a common motif in Renaissance art and finds its roots in the Danse Macabre, an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. No matter one’s station in life, the Danse Macabre unites us all. The German artist Hans Baldung famously depicted the subject of Death and the Maiden several times in his career. The theme was revived in the arts during the Romantic era, and variants of the subject occur in well-known self- portraits by such contemporary artists of Verno as Hans Thoma and Arnold Böcklin.  <Sotheby's>

[01liey10]

I made more r1999 celebrity au meme :

@sinmalssimp pls i really love ur au, i can't stop drawing it 😢💕‼️.

[abstracteddistractions]

Franz Kline, "Mass. Harbor," 1961,

Oil on canvas,

67 ¾ by 92 ⅛ in. (172 by 234 cm.)

Courtesy: Sotheby's

[eirene]

Love's jewelled fetter (The betrothal ring), circa 1894

Lawrence Alma-Tadema

[thesaurushouseofdesign]

"Fountainhead," Jackson, Mississippi, United States,

Wright called the three-bedroom property The Fountainhead after the eponymous novel by Ayn Rand, whose protagonist was famously inspired by the architect himself.

It was designed in 1948 and built from 1950 to 1954.

Locals called it the Hughes House, after Wright’s client J Willis Hughes, who lived here until 1980.

The current owner is architect Robert Parker Adams, who has spent decades restoring its Heart Tidewater Red Cypress walls and the original copper roof.

Frank Lloyd Wright Architect,

Photography: Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty