ArtAriya - Everything Art: 2012-08-12

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Grilled Corn, Crema

Grilled Corn, Crema Mexicana & Cilantro Crostini

monsieurleprince: Felice Boscaratti (1721 - 1807) - The...

monsieurleprince:

Felice Boscaratti (1721 - 1807) - The carnival of Venice

collective-history: Athena’s aegis, bearing the Gorgon, here...

collective-history:

Athena’s aegis, bearing the Gorgon, here resembles closely the skin of the huge serpent who guards the golden fleece (regurgitating Jason); cup by Douris, Classical Greece, early fifth century BC - Vatican Museum

Lorenzo Lotto, Nativity Scene McKayla is NOT impressed by baby...

Lorenzo Lotto, Nativity Scene

McKayla is NOT impressed by baby Jesus’ spider limbed arrival.

George III was presented with this somewhat macabre object by its maker, William Walls, in 1765. It would certainly have appealed to the King’s interest in scientific instruments and machinery. The mechanism incorporates two pistols and is so designed that when an unwary intruder tampered with it, alarm bells (now missing) would start ringing and the pistols would fire. The drawbacks of such a mechanism however, were pointed out when it was described in the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1765: ‘honest inadvertent people might suffer by it, who not being always recollected, might forget the danger, tho’ apprized of it and suffer for their want of memory’. William Walls, about whom nothing else is known, was described in the Gentleman’s Magazine as a ‘Birmingham manufacturer’. The barrels of the flintlock guns, however, are stamped with the mark used - from 1741 onwards - on the work of non-members of the London Gunmakers’ Company, proved in the Company’s proof-house.

Royal Collection © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

It's not you, it's someone else better than you.

whiteravenmetal: Frontispiece - Bernardino Genga, 1691

whiteravenmetal:

Frontispiece - Bernardino Genga, 1691

colourthysoul: George Frederick Watts - Georgina Treherne...

colourthysoul:

George Frederick Watts - Georgina Treherne (1856)

Martin Johnson Heade, Orchids and Hummingbird, 1875-83 (source).

Martin Johnson Heade, Orchids and Hummingbird, 1875-83 (source).

fleurdulys: A River Landscape at Night with a Rowing Boat, a...

fleurdulys:

A River Landscape at Night with a Rowing Boat, a Burning City Beyond - Aert van der Neer

1652

Friday, August 17, 2012

"She made up prayers and said them, Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing, Her customary..."

“She made up prayers and said them,

Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,

Her customary magic, which would cover

The white moon’s face and darken the sun with cloud.”

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 14: 365-368.

(via caveofhypnos)

ca2mgfe5si8o22oh2: An Arabic manuscript from the 13th century...

ca2mgfe5si8o22oh2:

An Arabic manuscript from the 13th century depicting Socrates (Soqrāt) in discussion with his pupils.

obsidian-sphere: Eva: The Child of Misfortune January 1, 1887

obsidian-sphere:

Eva: The Child of Misfortune

January 1, 1887

ancientart: Ancient Egyptian golden artifacts from the Tomb of...

ancientart:

Ancient Egyptian golden artifacts from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, dates to about 1323 BC.

Peter Driben

Gil Elvgren

J’s Coffee Shop

Faith in Destiny

Untitled

postage stamp from n

postage stamp from new zealand

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