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 …
Consul Areobindus Dagalaifus Areobindus
Leaf of a Diptych with Consul Areobindus, 506 AD, elephant ivory bas-relief, 39x13cm, Musée de Cluny, Paris, France (my amateurish attempt at Photography) Devant une tribune, write the Cluny Museum Experts, paré de ses insignes, Areobindus est entouré d’assesseurs. La main droite levée, il lance les jeux avec la "m ...
Seascape Study with Rain Cloud by John Constable
John Constable, Artist of the United Kingdom, 1776–1837Seascape Study with Rain Cloud (Rainstorm over the Sea), 1824-1828, Oil on paper laid on canvas, 22.2x31.1 cm, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Constable_-_Seascape_Study_with_Rain_Cloud.jpg …Look! look! that ...
Flaming June
Frederic, Lord Leighton, British Artist, 1830–1896Flaming June, 1895, Oil on Canvas, 119.1 × 119.1 cm, Museo de Arte de Ponce, The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc., Ponce, Puerto Rico https://www.art-theoria.com/painting-of-the-month/flaming-june/ According to Leighton, the composition was inspired by the posture of ...
Léon Bakst
Léon Bakst, Russian Artist, 1866-1924Costume Design for a Woman from the Village, for the Ballet 'Daphnis and Chloé', performed at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, 1912, Watercolor and graphite, 26 × 21.6 cm, the MET, NY, USA https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/698631 It is goodbye to scenery designed ...
The Stavelot Triptych in the Morgan Library
Stavelot Triptych, ca. 1156-1158, Wood; copper-gilt frames, silver pearls and columns, gilt-brass capitals and bases, vernis brun domes, semi-precious stones, intaglio gems, beads, champlevé, and cloisonné enamels, Wings open: height: 484 mm, width: 660 mm, The Morgan Library and Museum, NY, USA http://corsair.morganl ...
A Unique Tapestry in Bayeux
Bayeux Tapestry, c. 1070, Εmbroidered Wool on Linen, about 68.3 metres long and about 70cm wide , Bayeux Tapestry Museum, Francehttps://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeux-tapestry/ Auspiciously a comet hangs / in the tabby linen / above King Harold / the way the Hale-Bopp / once in 1997 / blipped above the fu ...
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun with Her Daughter Julie
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, French Artist, 1755–1842Self-portrait with Her Daughter, Julie, 1786, oil on panel, 105 × 84 cm, the Louvre, Paris, France https://histoire-image.org/etudes/nouveau-visage-amour-maternelSelf-Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie (à l’Antique), 1789, oil on canvas, 130x94 cm, the Louvre Muse ...
Giorgone’s Madonna Cook
Giorgone, 1477/78 or 1473/74 – 1510Virgin and Child called Madonna Cook, circa 1500, oil on wood, 68 x 48,1 cm, private collection on deposit at the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany https://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/en/giovanni-bellini While in Paris, visiting the Exhibition GIOVANNI BELLINI Influences cr ...
The Bersha Procession
The Bersha Procession, Middle Kingdom, late 11th Dynasty–early 12th Dynasty, 122010–1961 BC, Egypt, Deir el-Bersha, Tomb 10, shaft A (Djehutynakht), Painted Wood, 66.4 x 8.6 x 42.5 cm, MFA, Boston, MA, USAhttps://gr.pinterest.com/pin/670473463254087082/?nic_v3=1a7FXhvpJ In a 1915 excavation, archaeologists from the ...
May Day on Corfu by Charlambos Pachis
Charalambos Pachis, Greek Artist, 1844 - 1891May Day on Corfu, ca 1875-1880, oil on canvas, 61 x 50 cm, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens, Greece https://www.nationalgallery.gr/artwork/protomagia-stin-kerkyra/ On May Day in Corfu, write ‘The Kapodistria Museum – Center for Kapodistrian Studies’ e ...
Lekythos in the Canellopoulos Museum
White-Ground Lekythos, 440-430 BC, Terracotta, H. 25,5 cm, Canellopoulos Museum, Athens, Greece https://camu.gr/en/item/likythos/ Intended as a grave gift, this beautiful, white-ground Lekythos in the Canellopoulos Museum is a distinctive 5th century type of Athenian vessel. According to Maria S. Brouscari… the com ...
Flora
Villa Arianna Fresco of Flora, (Room W. 26), 1st century AD, fresco, 38x32 cm, from Villa Arianna in Stabiae, National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italyhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primavera_di_Stabiae.jpg Love came to Flora asking for a flower / That would of flowers be undisputed queen, / Th ...
The Veil of Saint Veronica
Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), 1541 - 1614The Veil of Saint Veronica, the early 1580s, Oil on Canvas, 51 × 66 cm, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greecehttps://goulandris.gr/en/artwork/el-greco-the-holy-face VII And a certain woman named Bernice (or Beronikē, meaning in Greek “bearer of victo ...
Holy Thursday – Μεγάλη Πέμπτη
Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), 1541 – 1614The Agony in the Garden, c. 1590, oil on canvas, 104 x 117 cm, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA https://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/greco_el/index.html Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, h ...
Holy Monday – Μεγάλη Δευτέρα
Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), 1541 – 1614Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, c. 1570-75, oil on canvas, 115.57x147.32 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, USA https://collections.artsmia.org/art/278/christ-driving-the-money-changers-from-the-temple-el-greco On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus enter ...
Face to Face with Emperor Ioannis VIII Palaiologos
Pisanello’s Medallion of Ioannis VIII Palaiologos, a loan from the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at the Ca' D’Oro, Venice, as exhibited in the Hôtel de la Marine, in Paris, France, My amateurish attempt at photography… A page of Pisanello’s sketchbook in the Louvre Museum presents the mounted figure of the Byzantine ...