#terracota

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Funerary Statuette: Bird Trainer.

Place of origin: China

Period: Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589)

Date: A.D. 5th-6th

Medium: Gray terracotta, traces of paint and white slip

[diemelusine]

Basílica da Estrela, Lisboa, Portugal. https://www.flickr.com/photos/scalleja/

[polypharmakoss]

Terracotta Campana relief, Anonymus, 1st Century, found near Porta Latina (Rome). British Museum.

According to the description of the museum, this depicts Athena supervising the building of the ship "Argo" for the expedition of Jason and the Argonauts. Athena adjusts the sail while the helmsman Tiphys holds the yard.

The description doesn't give any clue to identify the other one but most probably is Argos, the shipbuilder.

Argos is a common name 😂😂

At this point, nothing you tell me about Heracles surprises me at all, this man has many AUs.

Here a Tiphys mention: Ap. Rhod. Argon. 1. 105-14

Tiphys, son of Hagnias, left the Siphaean people of the Thespians, well skilled to foretell the rising wave on the broad sea, and well skilled to infer from sun and star the stormy winds and the time for sailing. Tritonian Athena herself urged him to join the band of chiefs, and he came among them a welcome comrade. She herself too fashioned the swift ship; and with her Argus, son of Arestor, wrought it by her counsels. Wherefore it proved the most excellent of all ships that have made trial of the sea with oars.

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Irises

Artist: Roger Fry (English, 1866–1934)

Date: ca. 1915

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

[portrait-paintings]

John Michael Rysbrack Modelling His Terra-Cotta Statue of Hercules

Artist: Andrea Soldi (Italian, 1703–1771)

Date: 1753

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

The Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack achieved great success after moving from Antwerp to London in 1720. He became the leading sculptor of busts and monumental tombs until he experienced competition from Louis François Roubiliac in the 1740s. Rysbrack was also renowned as a skillful modeler, and his terracotta models were highly sought after by eighteenth-century connoisseurs. In this portrait by the Florentine artist Andrea Soldi, Rysbrack is shown at work on the terracotta modello for his marble statue of Hercules. The marble, which Horace Walpole considered his “chef d’oeuvre,” was commissioned by Henry Hoare of Stourhead in Wiltshire and was completed in 1756. A terracotta bust by Rysbrack that relates to the statue of Hercules is shown alongside.

[osplanetasdasabelhas]

Vasos em terracota

Grécia/ século V a.c.

Museu da Presidência

Lisboa

Fotos cjmn

[vikhayes]

#creatuanary 10. Terracota Winged Guardian

[yogadaily]

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