Masthash

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2 hours ago

Stone column drum from the Later Temple of Artemis at #Ephesus
British Museum, 4th century CE
2023

#PhallusThursday #MuseumArchive #ArtHistory #AncientRome #AncientHistory

Direct view of the side of a large cylindrical marble stone. Carved in relief, in center, is a nude male holding a garment in his arm and looking up and to his right. To his left and right are female figures in Roman garb.

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2 days ago

Do reliquaries count for #TombTuesday?

Reliquary of Mary Magdalen’s Tooth
#Italy, 1300-1400
#TheMet

#kunst #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #MedievalStudies #medievalists #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #Catholicism #Christianity

A roughly egg-shaped crystal containing a tooth. It is set inside a gilded copper and silver reliquary stand. The stand is about 24” tall and has elaborate floral and architectural designs. On each side of the crystal is a tower-like structure containing small human or angel figures. These towers branch off and converge just above the crystal, forming a platform for a roundel with a scene of the crucifixion. At the very top is a simple crystal cross.

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6 days ago

Haggadah, printed in #Prague, 1527
#TheMet, 2022

#FindsFriday #Bookstodon #AncientReligions #Judaism #ReligiousStudies #MuseumArchive

Large book open, showing Hebrew text in large letters in the center of each page. In the margins of the left page are small paragraphs of much smaller Hebrew text. In the margins on the right are black and white illustrations of people and architectural figures.

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1 week ago

Pan removing a thorn from a Satyr’s foot
Marble, 2nd century CE
#TheLouvre 🇫🇷
#PhallusThursday

#kunst #ArtHistory #Arte #ArtMuseum #ArtMatters #MuseumArchive #mythology #AncientRome #Paris

Marble statue about 12 inches tall. A nude male figure sitting on a rock with his left ankle on his right knee. His head is leaning back in pain. Below him is Pan, sitting on the ground and picking the thorn out.

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2 weeks ago

Terracotta female figurines with bird-like face
#Cyprus, c. 1200 BCE
British Museum, 2015

#FannyFriday #FindsFriday #BronzeAge #Altertumswissenschaften #AncientReligions #MuseumArchive

Two almost flat clay figures with very wide hips and pubic areas indicated by criss-cross patterns. They are holding their breasts.

Tjasker

2 weeks ago

Een prachtige, bijna dromerig sfeer in 'Gezicht op de Schinkelbuurt' van Mondriaan | A beautiful, almost dreamlike atmosphere in Mondrian's 'View of the Schinkel neighborhood'
Piet #Mondriaan in #artmuseum @VillaMondriaan
#art #impressionism #fineart #museumarchive #winterswijk @kunstmuseumdh

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2 weeks ago

Hellenistic sarcophagus, #Istanbul Archaeology Museum
2022

#kunst #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #TombTuesday #AncientReligions

Rectangular marble sarcophagus with a very high, oval-shaped lid. On the sides of the container are battle scenes between cavalry and minotaurs, and on the end side of the lid are two gryphon-like creatures with human women’s heads and exposed breasts. Otherwise the lid is smooth.

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2 weeks ago

Roman Mosaic, #Beirut National Museum
#Lebanon
2019

#MosaicMonday #ArtHistory #MuseumArchive #AncientRome

Square floor mosaic with a circle inscribed along the four inner edges. Within the circle is a concentric circle of eight roundels, each depicting a different bearded man. At the center is another roundel with a female figure.

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3 weeks ago

Jewish Praver book
Austrian or Franconian (present-day #Germany )
Made about 1294
#TheMet

2022

#Bookstodon #judaism #religion #hebrew #FindsFriday #medievalstudies #medievalists #middleages #AncientReligions #ReligiousStudies #MuseumArchive #FindsFriday #Deutschland #de

Small, hand-sized vellum codex with open showing Hebrew text within large margins. The text has a chaotic look about it, written in uneven lines and in varying red and black text. On each page is one line in red and in characters about five times larger than the rest.

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3 weeks ago

Mosaic Pavement with Egyptianizing Scene
Roman, late Hadrianic or early Antonine, ca. A.D. 130-150
#TheMet

2022

#MosaicMonday #kunst #arthistory #Arte #ArtMatters #MuseumArchive

Floor mosaic about 4 feet by 4 feet, with mostly white stones as background and black stones making stylized floral and architectural outlines. In the center is a more colorful scene of a standing “Egyptian-looking” god approaching a seated one.

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1 month ago

Eenvoudige voorstelling van een boerderij uit het vroege werk van Mondriaan | Simple depiction of a farmhouse from Mondrian's early work.
Piet #Mondriaan in #artmuseum @VillaMondriaan
#art #impressionism #fineart #museumarchive #winterswijk @kunstmuseumdh

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1 month ago

2nd-3rd C. Wall Mosaic at the #Istanbul Archaeological Museum
🇹🇷
2022

#MosaicMonday #arthistory #ArtMatters #MuseumArchive #histodons #history #geschichte #histoire #ancienthistory #antiquity #antike #Turkey

Mosaic of a nude man being mauled in his midsection by a lion. A large portion of it is missing at the midsection, so we don’t see the lion’s mouth making contact with the man. A club is shown falling at the man’s side, showing that he dropped it.

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1 month ago

‘Netten drogen Honfleur’ van Betsy Westendorp-Osiek. Ze behoorde tot de schildersgroep de Amsterdamse Joffers | 'Nets drying Honfleur' by Betsy Westendorp-Osiek, a Dutch painter. She belonged to the painting group the ‘Amsterdam Joffers’.
in #artmuseum @VillaMondriaan
#art #fineart #exhibition #impressionism #artoftheday #museumarchive #landscape #port #France

Tjasker

1 month ago

'Korenschoven in het veld' 1892 - het maaien van het graan op een warme zomerdag | 'Wheat sheaves in the field' 1892 - mowing the grain on a hot summer day.
#artist Piet #Mondriaan in #artmuseum @VillaMondriaan
#art #impressionism #fineart #museumarchive #winterswijk @kunstmuseumdh

Tjasker

1 month ago

Er is niet aan te ontkomen in Het #Depot van #Boijmans, het zelfportret van Edgar Fernhout, de zoon van Charley Toorop | There is no escaping it in The #Depot of #Boijmans, the self-portrait of Edgar Fernhout, Charley Toorop's son.
#artmuseum @boijmans
#modernart #art #exhibition #realism #fineart #originalart #artoftheday #museumarchive #artist

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1 month ago

For #TombTuesday, a sarcophagus at the #Istanbul Archaeological Museum.

#arthistory #MuseumArchive #Turkey #AncientReligions #ReligiousStudies #ancienthistory #antiquity #antike #MiddleEast

Angled view of an elaborately carved sarcophagus, about 5.5 feet tall, in a museum hall. There are realistic human figures carved on the long side and animals on the short side. The lid hangs a little over the container and has scenes of humans fighting tigers carved along the edge.

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1 month ago

Prachtige en stemmige zonsondergang achter drie hooibergen. Het kleurenpalet is schitterend | Beautiful and moody sunset behind three haystacks. The colour palette is stunning.
Piet #Mondriaan in #artmuseum @VillaMondriaan
#art #impressionism #fineart #museumarchive #winterswijk