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 Labours of the Months: December
By an unknown Venetian artist…The Labours of the Months: December, about 1580, oil on canvas, 13.6 x 10.6 cm, National Gallery, Londonhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/italian-venetian-the-labours-of-the-months-january#painting-group-info Last, for December, houses on the plain, / Ground-floo ...
Titian in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Tiziano Vecelli (Titian in English), c. 1488/90-1576The Rape of Europa, between 1560 and 1562, Oil on Canvas, 178 × 205 cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USAhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/L%27Enl%C3%A8vement_d%27Europe_Rubens.jpeg Titian in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is abou ...
The Turkeys by Claude Monet
Claude Monet, 1840-1926The Turkeys, 1876, oil on canvas, 1876 174x172 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Francehttps://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/les-dindons-1109 On Thanksgiving Day remember Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) and Give thanks for each new morning with its light, / For rest and shelter of the night. / For h ...
First Steps by Georgios Iakovidis
Georgios Iakovidis, 1853-1932First Steps, 1889, Oil on Canvas, 64x50 cm, Averoff Museum of Neo-Hellenic Art, Metsovo, Greece https://www.averoffmuseum.gr/%cf%84%ce%b1-%cf%80%cf%81%cf%8e%cf%84%ce%b1-%ce%b2%ce%ae%ce%bc%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b1/ World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as Universal Children's Day a ...
The Borghese Dancers
Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665A Dance to the Music of Time, about 1634,By kind permission of the Trustees of the Wallace Collection, London (P108) © The Trustees of the Wallace Collectionhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/poussin-and-the-dance/major-loan-announced-for-poussin-and-the-danceRelief with Five Danc ...
Hanging Fragment with Bird and Basket
Hanging Fragment with Bird and Basket, 4th century, Wool, linen; tapestry weave, H. 64 cm, W. 50 cm, the MET, NY, USAhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/443639?&pkgids=684&exhibitionId=%7bD6F10BA8-6A28-45C2-AD23-4AFE0D41B5EC%7d&oid=443639&ft=*&fe=1 Once more, inspiration comes from t ...
“Κάλλος” and the Kore from Chios
The "Kore from Chios," c. 510 BC, Marble from the island of Paros, H. 0.545 m, Acropolis Museum, Athens Greecehttps://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/statue-kore-kore-chios Kallos, according to the Museum of Cycladic Art experts, is an ideal developed in ancient Greek thinking and was expressed through the verses of t ...
The Labours of the Months: November
By an unknown Venetian artist…The Labours of the Months: November, about 1580, oil on canvas, 13.6 x 10.6 cm, National Gallery, Londonhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/italian-venetian-the-labours-of-the-months-january#painting-group-info Waken, lords and ladies gay, / On the mountain dawns the day; / Al ...
A Religious Scene in Thessaloniki
Walter S. George, ? - 1962Watercolour Painting of the North Inner Aisle Mosaics in the Church of Saint Demetrios in Thessaloniki, 1907 (Mosaics date to the century), Sheet No. 2, Watercolour on Paper, 35.56x 45.72 cm, Photographic Library of the Warburg Institute, London, UK Konstantinos Males, Greek artist ...
Angels in the Palatine Chapel by John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent, American artist, 1856–1925Angels, Mosaic, Palatine Chapel, Palermo, 1897 or 1901, watercolor gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper, 25x35.5 cm, the MET, NY, USA https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Angels%2C_Mosaic%2C_Palatine_Chapel%2C_Palermo_MET_50.130.83f.jpg John Sin ...
The Laughing Boy by Robert Henri
Robert Henri, American Artist, 1865–1929The Dutch Joe (Jopie van Slouten), 1910, oil on canvas, 60.96 × 50.8 cm, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=13533Frans Hals, Dutch Artist, 1582/83-1666Laughing Child, circa 1620-1625, oil on wood, Diameter: 27.94 cm, LACMA (Los Angeles County ...
Villa Arianna at Stabiae
Villa Arianna Terrace, 1st century AD, Stabiae, Italyhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Terrazza_B_di_Villa_Arianna#/media/File:Arianna_terrazza_B.JPG During the Archaic period (8th century BC) Stabiae already played an important strategic and commercial role. The city reached its highest population densit ...
The Colosso del’Appennino by Giambologna
Giambologna, 1529-1608Colosso del’Appennino, 1570s, Rock, lava, brick, etc., H. 10 m, Garden of the Villa Medici, Park of Pratolino, Italyhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demidoff_01.jpg Introducing his book Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence, Michal W. Cole refers to an October 158 ...
Happy Birthday Miss Jones by Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell, 1894-1978Happy Birthday Miss Jones, Saturday Evening Post cover March 17, 1956, The original oil on canvas painting is part of the collection of filmmaker George Lucas.https://prints.nrm.org/detail/261035/rockwell-happy-birthday-miss-jones-school-teacher-1956 On the 5th of October, we celebrate Wor ...
The Labours of the Months: October
By an unknown Venetian artist…The Labours of the Months: October, about 1580, oil on canvas, 13.6 x 10.6 cm, National Gallery, Londonhttps://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/italian-venetian-the-labours-of-the-months-january#painting-group-info The young man in the new BLOG POST The Labours of the Months: Octob ...
Weaving in Ancient Greece
Attributed to the Amasis Painter, active around 550–510 BCTerracotta Black-Figure Lekythos (oil flask) depicting the preparation of wool and the weaving of cloth, ca. 550–530 BC, H. 17.15 cm, the MET, NY, USAhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253348?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&high=on ...