demad69:

beautifulmedievalmanuscripts:

Epistres d’Ovide and three French poems

MASTER OF THE CHRONIQUE SCANDALEUSE, FRANCE, PARIS, C. 1493

This stunningly beautiful manuscript was made for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. The compilation includes French translations of Ovid’s epistolary poems and three French poems that were written for a highly exclusive audience.

Source

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

*drooling*

thecollectibles:

Art by

Ellyade Illustrations

Faig Ahmed’s Glitch Rugs

lovesthesmarty:

ladyisak:

communedesign:

By rearticulating traditional Azerbaijani rug design, Faig Ahmed creates sculptural textiles that look like digital glitches, patterns flatlining halfway through a tapestry or gradually morphing into a digital mosaic.

these look like what a migraine feels

Oh gawd, you’re RIGHT!

newyorker:

Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but for centuries, archeologists and museum curators had been scrubbing away these traces of color before presenting statues and architectural reliefs to the public. Now, scholars are making a color correction.

Read the full story, “The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture,” here.

dingoat:

Still hurts, but enough time’s passed for me to get out this bit of catharsis. I miss my kitty.

serakosumosu:

girlartistsonly:

Artist: Gloria Petyarre (1938-)

Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community

She is self-taught and is the first Aboriginal artist to win the Wynne Prize for Landscape

She has received international acclaim for her Bush Medicine Leaf paintings, and her work is exhibited in over ten different museums and galleries

Her paintings were so influential that hers has become the most popular style among Australian Aboriginal artists

She is one of the founding members of the Utopia Women’s Batik Group

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

araniaart:

I am THRILLED to present this AMAZING commission I Just received by the astounding @kevinwada !!

He took the prompt of Steve painting a pinup of Bucky, post Winter Soldier and did AMAZING with it – incorporating some super fun, flirty WW2 pinup vibes and I absolutely ADORE it.

Thank you so much, Kevin, for the commission, for the awesome interpretation, and being so wonderful to work with!

blueinkblot:

onesideisgreatness:

magistrate-of-mediocrity:

trying–kind-of:

is this a renaissance painting?

“Interrogation of the Zodiac Killer”
-The Ghost of Sandro Botticelli ca 2015

So I slapped some mathematics on this picture and…

The red lines divide the picture into thirds. They also mostly coincide with the doorway (and Cruz’s right hand), framing him nicely as the Main Character of this picture.

The green line was placed using the golden ratio (the ratio between parts of the picture above it and below it is close enough to 1:1.618). It also goes right under his chin (and through some reporters’ hands or tools).

The purple lines are diagonals that are framing the reporters really nicely.

I’m pretty sure you could also do something clever with a circle and the yellow doorway behind him, but I don’t have the patience to fiddle with that.

Basically, this picture has the same “maths are beautiful” aesthetic as (some well-known) Renaissance paintings.

It also means a photographer did a DAMN GOOD job taking it

juliasscott:

At Marlinspike Hall
personal work (2016)

aluhnim:

We are all Superstitious is comic that follows the life of two boys and their experiences with small, everyday supernatural beliefs.

If you’re having trouble reading it, you can download it for free on my gumroad!