ἕν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδέν οἶδα
All I know is that I know nothing
Allegedly said by Socrates
So true, 30 years in Education, and I still feel like a kindergarten student, curious and inquisitive, questioning, interested, prying …
The Rampin Rider
The Rampin Rider, Archaic Period, around 550 BC, Marble from Paros, Height: 1.08 m, Length: 0.77 m, Width: 0.38 m, Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece https://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/statue-rider-rampin-rider …Come, take the Dorian lyre down from its peg, if the splendor of Pisa and of Pherenicus placed your mind ...
September Sunlight
Childe Hassam, American Artist,1859–1935September Sunlight, circa 1887, Oil on Canvas, 45.8 x 55.8 cm, Private Collection https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=710256554473763&set=a.559870122845741&type=3&locale=it_IT&paipv=0&eav=AfaH9KHKOLoFA2Q2dpyw10i8ycH0KFTFgQ3GXNBBtewHGh34TvI_l-T1UjHORJ-rVC ...
Plaque with Eros as a Sleeping Child
Plaque with Eros as a Sleeping Child and a poppy capsule, symbol of sleep, 1st/2nd century AD, Amber, Museo d’ Antiquita, ‘J. J. Winckelmann’, Trieste, Italy – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, February 18, 2024, ‘Meanings’. Personifications and Allegories from Antiquity to Today Exhibition, Acropolis Museum, Athens, Gr ...
Santa María la Real de las Huelgas
View of the Cloister of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas, 13th century, Burgos Spain – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, May 2024 I love cloisters' peace / soft words of silence within / harmony and calm… This is exactly how I felt in the Cloister of the Monastery of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas, in Burgos, S ...
Jo Sketching at Good Harbor Beach by Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper, American Artist, 1882–1967Jo Sketching at Good Harbor Beach, 1923–1924, Watercolor and fabricated chalk on paper, 35.2 × 50.6 cm, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA https://whitney.org/collection/works/6864 Gull patrol / paranoiac survey / is it “I want to have a lot of sex” / or “I want to have ...
The Torcello Hodegetria
Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello, View of the Apse with the Mosaics of the Annunciation at the very top, the Hodegetria, and the Apostles, 11th century, Torcello, Italy http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/date/2020/10/06 and https://gr.pinterest.com/pin/642677809300738057/ Torcello was the mother-cit ...
Charon crossing the Styx by Joachim Patinir
Joachim Patinir, 1480-1524Charon crossing the Styx, 1520 – 1524, Oil on Panel, 64x103 cm, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/charon-crossing-the-styx/c51349b6-049e-476c-a388-5ae6d301e8c1 A horrible ferryman keeps these waters and streams / in fearful squalor, Charon, ...
Apulian Pottery Style
An Apulian Red-Figured Knob-Handled Patera in the manner of the Lycurgus Painter, circa 2nd half of the 4th century BC, Diameter: 43.2 cm, Private Collection https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6436519?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=6436519&from=salessummary&lid=1 The ancient Apulian Pottery Style, origi ...
Hay Making
Jules Bastien-Lepage, French artist, 18480-1884Hay Making, 1877, Oil on Canvas, 180x195 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Francehttp://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/expositions/jules-bastien-lepage-1848-1884 I come! I come! and the waving field / its wealth of golden grain shall yield. / In the hush and heat of glowing noon ...
Boys on the Beach by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish Artist, 1863-1923Boys on the Beach, 1909, Oil on Canvas, 118x185 cm, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/boys-on-the-beach/edd7a202-c069-49f1-a3f4-eacf9b4022c2 'Tis better to sit here beside the sea, / Here on the spray-kissed beach, ...
Madonna with Child in a Landscape
Attributed to the Master of the Madonna Grog, a member of the group of artists formerly known as the Master of the Embroidered FoliageMadonna with Child in a Landscape, c. 1492-1498, Oil on Panel, Burgos Cathedral, Chapel of the Constables, Burgos, Spain – Photo Credit: Amalia Spiliakou, May 14, 2024 On the 14th of ...
The Emperor Julian
Statue of a Priest of Serapis or Julian the Apostate, 2nd century AD or 4th century AD if it is the statue of Emperor Julian, Marble, Height: 181 cm, Musée de Cluny, the Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris, Francehttps://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3606532259414293&set=a.547320410758138 …However the song that I ...
The Treasure of Childeric I
Golden Bees, Treasure of Childeric I, 5th century AD, Gold, Garnet, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France https://www.hhantiquejewelry.com/napoleon-bees-jewelry-tomb-childeric-i-symbols-empire/ . The 14th of July is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, a major event of the French Revolution, a ...
Girl on the Beach by Thaleia Flora Karavia
Thaleia Flora Karavia, Greek Artist, 1871 - 1960Girl on the Beach, 1922-25, Oil on Canvas, 61 x 50 cm, National Gallery, Athens, Greece https://www.nationalgallery.gr/en/artwork/girl-on-the-beach/ Thaleia Flora Karavia was a prominent Greek painter known for her vibrant depictions of everyday life, her contribution ...
White Flag
Jasper Johns, American Artist, born 1930White Flag, 1955, Encaustic, Oil, Newsprint, and Charcoal on Canvas, 198.9 × 306.7 cm, the MET, NY, USA https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487065 According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art experts… During the 1950s and 1960s, Johns frequently appropriated well-k ...
Royal Pantheon of San Isidoro
Royal Pantheon of San Isidoro de León, Romanesque Fresco PaintingsJuly, Calendar of San Isidoro de León, between 1160 and 1170, fresco painting, Colegiata de San Isidoro, León, Spain https://conocerelmundo.blog/2021/04/25/san-isidoro-de-leon/ and https://viajarconelarte.blogspot.com/2015/06/el-panteon-real-los-claustr ...