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      The Train To Heaven  Wroclaw, Poland

      Just an incredible idea that comes off beautifully.

      (It is a relic of the Nazi era in Poland
      is 70 feet high and weighs 90 tons)

      [img]https://i.imgur.com/IUtvpiq.jpg?1[/img]

      #169311
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        detail from The Marriage at Cana  by Veronese  c.1563

        The detail of this painting is incredibly clear and the colours just brilliant …
        the clothes of the man standing on the right have such fine details. 
        The painter, Veronese, is the man seated dressed in white with fine
        yellow leggings playing the stringed instrument.  His master, Titian is sat
        next to him playing the bass and dressed in bright red.
        The detail of this painting is as clear as a photograph. 

        [img]https://i.imgur.com/ywCKoLV.jpg?1[/img]

        #169313
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          Pieter Bruegel the Elder  (c.1525-1530 – 1569)

          Winter Landscape with Ice-skaters and Bird-trap (1565)

          Bruegel's winter scenes always have ravens in them.

          (He was in the first generation of painters not to make
          religion the natural subject of painting & never painted portraits-
          -from wiki)

          [img]https://i.imgur.com/xsTKRif.jpg?2[/img]

          #169314
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            The Three Graces is a 2nd century AD Roman copy of the original Greek statue
            and the French currently have it in the Louvre plundered by that tyrant Bonaparte.

            The contours of the three figures are perfectly formed.  I know nothing about the
            Three Graces (without looking it up) except that it's incredibly lifelike and that
            one of them had a chariot drawn by lionesses which roared out in pain as she
            used her whip on them.  (Maybe her name was Corina)

            [img]https://i.imgur.com/eVo3Gky.jpg?1[/img]

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              Emily Carr (1871-1945)

              Wild Lilies painted when she was only 22
              need say no more

              (One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a
              Modernist and Post-Impressionist style – as per wiki)

              [img]https://i.imgur.com/nj8J96v.jpg?1[/img]

              #169316
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                Piet Mondrian's Trees

                The Red Tree  (1908-1910)

                Always think of this as blue but the artist knows best
                like most things you either see it or you don't

                [img]https://i.imgur.com/l5kV4UG.jpg?1[/img]


                Trees on the Gein: Moonrise (1908)

                [img]https://i.imgur.com/6hqfKNG.jpg?4[/img]

                #169317
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                  Pietro Torrigiano broke Michel Agnolo's nose in a fit of jealousy
                  at the academy of Lorenzo dei Medici in Florence when both were
                  students of art (Michel Agnolo was anglicized to Michaelangelo). 

                  Torrigiano went into voluntary exile while Agnolo went through life with a broken nose.

                  [img]https://i.imgur.com/6RD4afM.jpg?1[/img]

                  Torrigiano arrived in the London of Henry VIII and succeeded in winning
                  a contract for £1500 to make the tomb of Henry VII in Westminster Abbey. 
                  The contract read to “make and work well, cleanly, surely, workmanly, curiously
                  and substantially a very special artwork”.

                  Torrigiano conceived and designed a work of white marble and cast bronze
                  and introduced for the first time concepts of modern style to a largely medieval Britain.
                  Cherubs made their first appearance and Torrigiano's work slowly started the British “renaissance”.

                  [img]https://i.imgur.com/ho0wRof.jpg?1[/img]

                  #169318
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                    Something has always drawn me to things Scandinavian, possibly from a book I found on a shelf at home when I was around 6 or 7 years old filled with tales from Norse mythology. I think maybe this sparked an interest that has stayed with me since, my interest being drawn beyond the deeds of the Allfather and Thor to exploring the culture and history of the region, especially (since I'm a lover of music) to the folk songs and the music  ultimately inspired by that.

                    Arne Vinje Gunnerud was a Norwegian sculptor born in Oslo in 1930. He drew on early Scandinavian/Viking artistic tradition for several of his works.
                    He also created the War Memorial 'Pax', situated near the Lindesnes lighthouse in Norway, to commemorate the sinking of the MS
                    Palatia in 1942.

                    The sculpture below, which I used to have as the background on my computer and have a small framed print of is titled 'Fenris Will Break Free' (Fenrisulven Vil Bryte Seg Løs) and is located in Tokyo.

                                            [img]https://i.imgur.com/gGGPzUe.jpg?1[/img]

                    #169319
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                      The pendant pictured below is similar to one that I have and is of a style of Viking art called 'Jellinge', named for the animal decoration found on a cup in the burial mound of King Gorm from approx. AD 958.
                      The Jellinge style is characterised by S-shaped animals with their heads in profile and with ribbon-shaped bodies, spiral hips, “pigtails” and curling upper lips.

                                                [img]https://i.imgur.com/QcaFbZ3.jpg?1[/img]

                      #169320
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                        Quseir 'Amra

                        (a desert castle in Jordan built between 723 and 743 and is important
                        for having the earliest examples of Islamic art – wiki)

                        Islamic art is based on geometric patterns which is halal i.e. permissible. 
                        Portrayals of real life subjects were forbidden but a few early frescoes survive
                        at Quseir 'Amra of deer and a semi-naked dancer

                        [img]https://i.imgur.com/0hR3RrG.jpg?1[/img]

                        [img]https://i.imgur.com/udRcBFk.jpg?1[/img]

                        #169321
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                          Lisbon Street Art

                          Following the revolution of April 25, 1974 there was an explosion of political murals,
                          and today artistic graffiti is sponsored by the City Council.

                          There are dozens of murals .. take a look through the link …

                          https://www.lisbonlux.com/magazine/lisbon-street-art.html

                          This fox and racoon were created combining painting and sculpture,
                          using old tyres, bumpers, computer parts and other discarded stuff by Bordal II.

                          [img]https://i.imgur.com/Skc30aZ.jpg?1[/img]

                          [img]https://i.imgur.com/T8iIGfP.jpg?1[/img]

                          #169322
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                                                            [img]https://i.imgur.com/tHsF1ap.png?1[/img]
                                                                          [img]https://i.imgur.com/yaUcAXT.png?3[/img]

                            [img]https://i.imgur.com/JlITGxr.jpg?1[/img]

                              [img]https://i.imgur.com/666HcoB.jpg?1[/img]

                              [img]https://i.imgur.com/OfHazBi.jpg?1[/img]

                            The above piece, “Confetti Death”, was created by a Miami contemporay artist, Typoe.
                            His work most often focuses on the tension and differences between the darkness of the urban underground and the glittering, shimmering 'bling' of celebrity.
                            Evoking humour, pathos and gravitas his work has sometimes been described as “memento mori with a smile”.
                            His work spans many different disciplines and often includes diverse materials such as gunpowder, fire, plastic, spray paint and found objects.Perhaps a good description of him and his work is on his own site : “”the messenger that while laughing, points to hypocrisy and excess while announcing the melancholy of time lost”.

                            #169323
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                              Frances I of France (reign 1515-1547) was a great patron of the arts, best known
                              for bringing the goldsmith and sculptor Benevenuto Cellini to work for him.
                              The most well known of these works is a gold salt cellar that Cellini describes
                              in his autobiography which is best known for being full of fiction except for his
                              descriptions of the creations of his major works.  This is how Cellini describes his work:-

                              “… it was oval in form, standing about two-thirds of a cubit (12 inches)
                              wrought in solid gold, and worked entirely from the chisel. …it represented
                              Sea and Earth, seated, with their legs interlaced …  The Sea carried a trident
                              in his right hand, and in his left I put a ship of delicate workmanship to hold the salt.
                              Below him were his four sea-horses, fashioned like our horses, from the head to the
                              front hoofs; all the rest of their body, from the middle backwards, resembled a fish,
                              and the tails of these creatures were agreeably interwoven.  Above this group the Sea
                              sat throned in an attitude of pride and dignity; around him were many kinds of fishes
                              and other creatures of the ocean.  The water was represented by waves, and enamelled
                              in the appropriate colour”.

                              [img]https://i.imgur.com/Mp4v3ue.jpg?1[/img]

                              “I had portrayed Earth under the form of a very handsome woman, holding her
                              horn of plenty, entirely nude like the male figure; in her left hand I placed a little temple of
                              Ionic architecture, most delicately wrought which was meant to contain the pepper. 
                              Beneath her were the handsomest living creatures which the earth produces; and the
                              rocks were partly enamelled, partly left in gold.

                              The whole piece reposed on a base of ebony, properly proportioned, but with a projecting
                              cornice, upon which I introduced four golden figures in rather more than half-relief.
                              They represented Night, Day, Twilight and Dawn.”

                              [img]https://i.imgur.com/OlSI00T.jpg?1[/img]

                              “When I exhibited this piece to His Majesty he uttered a loud cry of astonishment
                              and could not satiate his eyes with gazing at it.  Then he bade me take it back to my house,
                              saying he would tell me at the proper time what I should have to do with it.  So I carried it
                              home, and sent at once to invite several of my best friends; we dined gaily together, placing
                              the salt-cellar in the middle of the table, and thus we were the first to use it.”

                              (This last sentence should be taken with a pinch of salt)

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                                A detail from the fresco of Original Sin by Michaelengelo on the ceiling
                                of the Sistine Chapel which looks suspiciously like the guy is about to have or
                                has just had a blow job.  Someone commented it's quite a small cock for that
                                but just think  that such an artwork was allowed to remain on the ceiling of the
                                chapel for so long without  painting over or the ubiquitous fig leaf.  The other
                                frescoes like the Creation of Adam get far more attention than this but it's good
                                to see the master's sense of humour remains in tact.

                                [img]https://i.imgur.com/zTFgamP.png?1[/img]

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                                  Simonetta Vespucci (1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta,
                                  was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence
                                  and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci (from whose name the term “America” is derived).
                                  She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for
                                  many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters.  (from Wiki)

                                  Portrait of a Woman by the workshop of Sandro Botticelli, early-mid 1480s

                                  [img]https://i.imgur.com/wPTq0v4.jpg?1[/img]

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