Beautiful Art: architecture, paintings, sculptures, etc

[loreta]

Giovanni Battista Lombardi, "Nymph"

The art of representing water on marble running over the toes of the Nymph, a sculpture executed by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823-1880). The "Nymph", commissioned by Mrs. Camilla Facchi Fè D’Ostiani (1834-1901), was executed by Lombardi in 1864 and placed between the "golden walls" of the thermal baths of Palazzo Facchi in Brescia.

 

[PERLOU]

"La vie me paraît trop courte pour la passer à entretenir la haine ou à enregistrer les torts."Charlotte BrontëCharlotte Brontë, 1850: dessin à la craie du peintre et portraitiste anglais George Richmond. Conservé à la National Portrait Gallery, Londres

“Life seems to me too short to spend it maintaining hatred or recording wrongs.”Charlotte BrontëCharlotte Brontë, 1850: chalk drawing by the English painter and portraitist George Richmond. Held at the National Portrait Gallery, London

 

[Arwenn]

Amazing shell grotto in Kent, England

https://twitter.com/x/status/1691206664546889728

The Shell Grotto is a highly decorated subterranean passageway in Kent, England. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells, totaling about 4.6 million shells.

According to an article published in a local newspaper in 1838, a gentleman who purchased a cottage decided to do some maintenance work to the property. He directed the workmen to excavate a few feet beneath the cottage and they discovered a serpentine tunnel leading to a massive Shell Grotto!
To this day, archaeologists have no idea what its purpose was. Could it be related to witchcraft, a smuggler’s cove, or an ancient Pagan religion?

There are some theories that this shell grotto could be over 3,000 years old! The shells have never been carbon dated, so we cannot tell how old the grotto really is.

 

[PERLOU]

Pour @Jacques ...

 

[PERLOU]

[Expo] Modigliani, une fraîcheur intacte cent ans après - Boulevard Voltaire

L'art de Modigliani n’est jamais si systématique qu’il en a l’air.

www.bvoltaire.fr

[Expo] Modigliani, une fraîcheur intacte cent ans après
Par Samuel Martin - L'art de Modigliani n’est jamais si systématique qu’il en a l’air.

[Exhibition] Modigliani, freshness intact a hundred years laterBy Samuel Martin - Modigliani's art is never as systematic as it seems.




Amedeo Modigliani. Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota, 1915. Huile sur carton collé sur contre-plaqué parqueté. 105 x 75 cm. Paris, musée de l’Orangerie © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l'Orangerie) / Hervé Lewandowski
Amedeo Modigliani. Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota, 1915. Oil on cardboard glued to parquet plywood. 105 x 75 cm. Paris, Orangerie Museum © RMN-Grand Palais (Orangerie Museum) / Hervé Lewandowski

Amedeo Modigliani. Portrait de femme, dit aussi La Blouse rose, 1919. Huile sur toile. 98 x 64 cm. Avignon, musée Angladon, collection Jacques Doucet. ©Fondation Angladon-Dubrujeaud
Amedeo Modigliani. Portrait of a woman, also known as La Blouse rose, 1919. Oil on canvas. 98 x 64 cm. Avignon, Angladon museum, Jacques Doucet collection. ©Angladon-Dubrujeaud Foundation

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[Cruiseraurora]

Илья Глазунов - (10 июня 1930, Ленинград — 9 июля 2017, Москва) — советский, российский художник-живописец почвеннического направления, сценограф, педагог. Народный художник СССР (1980). Полный кавалер ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством». Основатель и ректор Российской академии живописи, ваяния и зодчества.
Илья Глазунов написал около 6000 картин.
Но эта картина - шедевр! (по моему субьективному мнению).

Попробуйте рассмотреть ее неспешно. Почему именно бабушка и внук идут к свету?


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Ilya Glazunov - (June 10, 1930, Leningrad - July 9, 2017, Moscow) - (June 10, 1930, Leningrad - July 9, 2017, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian painter and painter of soil direction, scenographer, and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Full Knight of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. Founder and rector of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Ilya Glazunov painted about 6000 paintings.
But this painting is a masterpiece! (in my subjective opinion).

Try to examine it leisurely. Why exactly are the grandmother and grandson walking towards the light?



Ilya Glazunov. "Metro." 1958, oil, cardboard.
Moscow State Art Gallery
Ilya Glazunov, People's Artist of the USSR
13, Volkhonka St., Moscow, Russia 119019

 

[Martina]

This is the photo I took last year in Louvre. It's a statue of Julius Caesar.
One of the ways how I'm going to remember Pierre who started this beautiful thread is that he was our art dealer .

 

[Alix]

“Music is liquid architecture and Architecture is frozen music”. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Milan Cathedral

 

[loreta]

Artist: Gabriella Borouch

" The Polar Bear & The Little Girl "

 

[Aliana]

@loreta, i thought i recognized that artist - it's from a treasured children's book I bought several years ago, called Maybe. See: Maybe - Picture Book · Gabriella Barouch

Her illustrations are so delightful!

 

[Alix]

This is a food storage hut made by the Sami people, the traditionally Sámi-speaking peoples who inhabit the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. I like it because it reminds me of the Russian legend of Baba Yaga. Well, and the fact that the storage method is quite practical...

Baba Yaga's house:

 

[Arwenn]

The Villa Galleria Borghese in Rome

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649157102303080448

 

[Cruiseraurora]

Michelangelo's Revenge ;)
A horned Moses, a God who turned his back on humanity, a Hypocritical Paradise for flawed "saints," an insane world where white is called black and black is called white. "God is in the neurons, you idiots!" - Michelangelo must have wanted to say. And he was sure that he would be skinned in this "Paradise". ;)

 

[heinrich]

Michelangelo's Revenge ;)
A horned Moses, a God who turned his back on humanity, a Hypocritical Paradise for flawed "saints," an insane world where white is called black and black is called white. "God is in the neurons, you idiots!" - Michelangelo must have wanted to say. And he was sure that he would be skinned in this "Paradise". ;)
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the painting showing the presumed god and its behind is not accurate. moses has not seen the god because no living person may see it and live thereafter. he only heard it. therefore, the god was hiding, so we have no evidence it is a lizard. but, see also the asian obsession with dragons.

 

[Cruiseraurora]

(I put a winking emoticon, it's humor).
When we don't have an answer to some question, that question is called rhetorical, for our reflection.
There is no doubt that Michelangelo was sober, he could have been more conservative in his work. But he introduced mythology into the fresco, which was contrary to orthodox religion. He was breaking the rules! Perhaps his consciousness was more expanded than we realize.
Some things may just be markers for our insights to see things from a different angle. "When consciousness is expanded, shock is inevitable"(c).