Joaquim Vayred - Procession of Schoolgirls (ca. 1890)
(Fonte: pariah-catharsis, via easterlily-92)
Castagno. Detail from Queen Tomyris, 15th Century.
Tomyris was a Queen who reigned over the Massagetae, a pastoral-nomadic Iranic people of Central Asia, East of the Caspian Sea, in approximately 530 BC. It is recorded that she defeated and killed the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great during his invasion and attempted conquest of her country.
Cyrus was killed and Tomyris had his corpse beheaded and then crucified, and shoved his head into a wineskin filled with human blood. She was reportedly quoted as saying, “I warned you that I would quench your thirst for blood, and so I shall”.
Jean-Frédéric Bazille, The Fortune Teller.
(Fonte: cinderellahope)
Hand of Akhenaten making an offering to Aten - Sandstone
Ancient Egypt from Ashmunein Dynasty 18
Metropolitan Museum of Art
(via artdetails)
Image source: unknown
Find out if you’re an introvert of extrovert by following the link on here: http://neurolove.me/post/48232160310/are-you-introverted-or-extraverted
(via psych-facts)
Davide Balliano - various work, ink on book page, 2011
#art
#19th century art
#Torquato Tasso and the two Leonores
#Karl Ferdinand Sohn
#Karl Sohn
#Torquato Tasso
David Bowie as Tilda Swinton, with Tilda Swinton as David Bowie
(Fonte: davidbowieaseveryone, via arpeggia)
#Albrecht Dürer
#Albrecht Durer
#Philosophia
#engraving
#16th century art
#woman
#allegorical figure
Standing lady portrait by Bergen Public Library on Flickr.
Standing lady portrait