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 Choice of Heracles by Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci, 1560-1609The Choice of Heracles, 1596, Oil on Canvas, 273 x 167 cm, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italyhttps://el.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF:Annibale_Carracci_-_The_Choice_of_Heracles_-_WGA4416.jpg The Choice of Heracles by Annibale Carracci is probably lo ...
Brunelleschi vs. Ghiberti
Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1378-1455Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401, Gilded Bronze, 45 × 38 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, ItalyFilippo Brunelleschi, 1377-1446Sacrifice of Isaac, 1401, Gilded Bronze, 41 × 36 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italyhttps://idole-rivalen.khm.at/en/ In 1400, a competition was a ...
The Monument of Episkopi on Sikinos
The Monument of Episkopi on Sikinoshttps://www.europeanheritageawards.eu/winners/monument-of-episkopi/ The Monument of Episkopi on Sikinos, one of the smallest Cycladic islands, is a Roman mausoleum dating back to the 3rd century. Because of its conversion to a Byzantine church, it was continuously used and has the ...
Agias Son of Aknonios
Agias, Son of Aknonios, Daochos Monument (detail2), c. 336- 332 BC, Marble, Height: 2.09 m, Delphi Archaeological Museum, Greece https://twitter.com/AncientEurope/status/1060343094133080064/photo/3 The family offering of Daochos II, or of the House of the Thessalians was initially erected on the prominent terrace n ...
The Dance by Matisse at the Barnes Foundation
Henri Matisse, French Artist, 1869 - 1954The Dance (view of the Main Room, South Wall), Summer 1932 - April 1933, Oil on canvas; three panels, Overall (left): 339.7 x 441.3 cm, Overall (center): 355.9 x 503.2 cm, Overall (right): 338.8 x 439.4 cm, the Barnes, Philadelphia, PA, USA https://collection.barnesfoundation.o ...
House of the Faun
The Latin inscription HAVE, translated as Welcome in English, salutes visitors to the largest and most luxurious residence in Pompeii, The House of the Faun, 2nd century BC to 79 AD, Pompeii, Italyhttp://pompeiisites.org/en/archaeological-site/house-of-the-faun / The House of the Faun is the grandest and most lavis ...
The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux Queen of France
Jean Pucelle, French, active Paris, 1319–34The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, Folios 9v-10r, Calendar Pages for September, ca. 1324-28, Grisaille, tempera, and ink on vellum, Single folio: 9.2 x 6.2 cm, the MET, NY, USA Jean Pucelle | The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France | French | The Metropolita ...
A Coign of Vantage by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A., R.W.S., Anglo-Dutch Artist, 1836-1912A Coign of Vantage, 1895, Oil on Canvas, 63.8 x 44.7 cm, Private Collection https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/alma-tadema-home-antiquity-leighton-house-museum-review/ Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a renowned Dutch-born British paint ...
Roman Enameled Glass
Goblet with a Gladiator, Begram Hoard, 1st century AD, Enameled Glass, Height: cm, Guimet Museum, Paris, France https://twitter.com/AntiokhosE/status/1615092377340846089Vase fragment depicting African Hunt, Begram Hoard, 1st century AD, Enameled Glass, Guimet Museum, Paris, France https://depts.washington.edu/si ...
Warhol by Basquiat Basquiat by Warhol
Jean-Michel Basquiat, American Artist, 1960-1988Dos Cabezas, October 4, 1962, acrylic and oil stick piece created on canvas and mounted on wood supports, 151.8 × 154 cm, Private Collection Andy Warhol, American Artist, 1928-1987Self-Portrait with Jean-Michel Basquiat, October 4, 1962, Polaroid, Collection Bischofberg ...
Madre della Consolazione
Madre della Consolazione,15th century, tempera on wood, 0.563x0.45 m, Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, Greece https://camu.gr/en/item/panagia-madre-della-consolazione/ Given this state of affairs and stepping out as though on the royal highway, following as we are the God-spoken teaching of our holy fathers and the tr ...
Virgin and Child
Attributed to Simon Bening, 1483/84–1561Virgin and Child, ca. 1520, Oil on wood, 25.4 x 21 cm, the MET, NY, USAhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436103 Lady, Our Lady, writes Vittoria Collona (Sonnet 51), did you not press and pour / into your milk, like essential oils wrung, / the whole of you, like ...
Swimmers on a Wooden Pier
Michael Axelos, Greek Artist, 1877-1965Swimmers at Palaio Faliro beach, 1935, Oil on plywood, 24.5 x 35.2 cm, Bank of Greece, Athens, Greecehttps://www.bankofgreece.gr/PublishingImages/PRESS-RELEASES/2022/Thalassografies_4.jpg.jpgGeorge Wesley Bellows, American Artist, 1882 – 192542 Kids, 1907. Oil on canvas, 106.7 x ...
Les Meules à Giverny simply means The Stacks at Giverny
Claude Monet, French Artist, 1840-1926Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890/91, Oil on canvas, 60 × 100.5 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64818/stacks-of-wheat-end-of-summer My new BLOG POST title, Les Meules à Giverny simply means The Stacks at Giverny, refers to twenty-five ...
Mycenaean Procession of Female Worshippers
Procession of Mycenaean Female Worshippers from Kadmeia Palace of Thebes, c. 1400 BC, Wall Painting, Archaeological Museum of Thebes, Greece https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/n6sgl8/mural_composition_showing_female_worshippers/ One of the most frequent themes in the Mycenaean wall painting is a process ...
Bellini’s Portrait of a young man à l’Antique
Giovanni Bellini, c. 1435/40 - 1516Portrait of a Young Man à l'Antique (Andrea Mantegna?), about 1475–80, oil on board, 35 x 28 cm, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy Germany (my amateurish attempt at photography of Bellini’s Painting as presented in the Exhibition GIOVANNI BELLINI Influences Croisées (Ma ...