THE ALPACA TASTEMAKER

Curating cultural histories, art, and other manifestations of the collective experience

[modernartstudy]

two dogs in a deserted street, 1894 pierre bonnard

[lamus-dworski]

Remntants of Renaissance castle built between 1508-1526 in Janowiec, Poland. The castle was funded by Polish szlachcic (nobleman), hetman and diplomat Mikołaj Firlej. Photography © Paweł Gajewski.

[artist-monet]

Houses in the Snow, Norway, 1895, Claude Monet

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Jaguar Grinding Stone. Date: ca. 1000-1550 Place of origin: Costa Rica, (Atlantic Watershed Region) Medium: Stone

[thunderstruck9]

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (British, b. 1977), The Hours Behind You, 2011. Oil on canvas, 230.5 x 250.8 cm.

[archimaps]

Competition design for a monumental lighthouse for the port of New York City

[archatlas]

Luigi Moretti’s Balilla House in Rome by Gabriele Basilico

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Belle Epoque tiara, 1910.

[ancientpeoples]

Quena (Kena) copper flute

Pre-Columbian Peru,  200–400 A.D., possibly Moche culture

Height: 3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm)

Source: Met Museum

[sahljournal]

MALI. Timbuktu. The Djingareiber mosque is made, Sudan style, of dried mud and wooden poles. 1988.

[symbolism-art]

Standing draped figure, 1913, Ferdinand Hodler

Size: 27.8x47.8 cm Medium: pencil, watercolor, paper

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪Bust of a Bacchante. Artist: Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824–1887) Date: 1860’s or later Medium: Marble

[widenerlibrary]

An elegant hand-tinted hummingbird visits from  A General History of Humming-Birds (1852)

[worldhistoryfacts]

Bronze “Queen Mother” head from Benin in west Africa, early 1500s. Benin, by the early 16th century, was a significant empire in the region with an impressive tradition of government-sponsored metal arts. Heads like this were often portraits of ancestors that were placed on the altar of a dead ruler by those that succeeded him. Queen mothers were especially respected in the culture of Benin.

[archaeoart]

Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria, circa 1870.

[dame-de-pique]

Anton Joachim Christian Bruhn - Ochsenwerder - 5 Wasserhebemühlen, 1908-1912      

[archimaps]

Design for the front door of a residential building, Berlin