Beautiful Art: architecture, paintings, sculptures, etc
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It looks like something from the AI generator!
This is the highest bridge in the world, the "Bridge of Immortals;"...
....it's located on the Yellow Mountain in China, known as Huanghsan.
The bridge has been drilled through the steep granite mountain from both sides, without apparently no technology. The way to the top of this mountain is not easy at all. Many steep cliffs, steps, and even additional side paths made of planks await you.
The real question is how did they build it thousands of years ago without any electric tools?
....it's located on the Yellow Mountain in China, known as Huanghsan.
The bridge has been drilled through the steep granite mountain from both sides, without apparently no technology. The way to the top of this mountain is not easy at all. Many steep cliffs, steps, and even additional side paths made of planks await you.
The real question is how did they build it thousands of years ago without any electric tools?
It's scenes like that that give me very bad dreams. Height I just cannot cope with.
Having said that it's a very beautiful bridge.!!!!!
Awww....No tree climbing when you were little?
Yes, it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen....errr...in a picture.
O lord, yes I was a demon, a constant worry for my grandmother who raised me. Climbing stone walls were my downfall. I've still got the scars!!!! The higher I went on trees the more the foliage hid the floor so I was o.k. I used it all the time to hide from my big brother, who incidentally, fell and broke one of his front teeth. I never fell thankfully from tree or wall but many a time i slide off a hay-stack. Rough and undignified but no one saw me. One is very self conscious at 7/8.
Very dramatic sculpture. There is more on it here:
Laocoön: The Suffering of a Trojan Priest & Its Afterlife
The sculpture group of Laocoön and His Sons, on display in the Vatican since its rediscovery in 1506 CE, depicts the suffering of the Trojan prince and priest Laocoön (brother of Anchises...
www.worldhistory.org
Here is a fresco of same:
A fresco depicting the Laocoön story in the Casa del Menandro, Pompeii. (Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau - 1825-1905, a painter of the woman and the child.
Les Enfants à L'Agneau [The Children of the Lamb], 1879:
Le Ravissement de Psyché [The Abduction of Psyche], 1895.
La vague [The wave], 1896:
Deux Sœurs [Two Sisters], 1901:
Les Enfants à L'Agneau [The Children of the Lamb], 1879:
Le Ravissement de Psyché [The Abduction of Psyche], 1895.
La vague [The wave], 1896:
Deux Sœurs [Two Sisters], 1901:
Princess Lux 🌷
Jedi Master
I saw this painting in an Instagram reel. It is a painting of a teenager on the other side while the other one is an old woman. Never knew paintings could age
There goes my vertigo again.
Who would enter that building????
Qui va aller chercher le pain..
Qui ira chercher le pain.
Lieux abandonnés
@Abandonesplace
No wheat field, no bread.
This amazing place is the Sumela Monastery in Turkey and it is not really abandoned. It is located at an altitude of about 1,200 m (3,900 ft), overlooking much of the surrounding alpine landscape, and would have been founded during the year 386. Since 2000, the Turkish government has been undertaking the necessary work to restore the site, which has become a tourist attraction. So, plenty of people enter that beauty.
Hereafter is one of the frescoes recently discovered inside. See the whole gallery on Wikipedia.
"[France, this country without history or culture - according to some of our elected officials] History of the staircase ... The spiral staircase of the Château de l'Herm, in the Dordogne, and its beautiful vault. Built between 1500 and 1520, the château is currently being restored."