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 Art of the Old Kingdom Period
Statue of Ka Aper from Saqqara (detail), c.2450-2350 BC, 5th Dynasty, Wood, Eyes: Eyes: Rock crystal, calcite, copper, black stone, Height: 112 cm, The Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt https://www.reddit.com/r/OutoftheTombs/comments/vi7q9q/the_4500_years_old_wooden_statue_of_kaaper_the/ Ancient Egyptian art must be vi ...
Simon Bening’s December
Simon Bening (d. 1561) and his workshopBook of Hours, known as the Golf Book December (f. 29v), c. 1540, 30 Parchment leaves on paper mounts, bound into a codex, 110 x 80 mm (text space: 85 x 60 mm), British Library, London, UKhttps://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/calendars/page/10/ Last, for December, houses on ...
Grave Stele of a Youth and a little Girl
Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl (and details), ca. 530 BC, Marble, H. 423.4cm, the MET, NY, USA https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248501?&exhibitionId=0&oid=248501&pkgids=773 and https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248500 and http://met-guide.blogspot.com/ ...
Freedom From Want by Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell, American Artist, 1894-1978Freedom From Want, 1943, Oil on canvas, 115.16x89.20 cm, Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943. Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA, USA https://www.nrm.org/2016/11/freedom-want-1943/ On Thanksgiving Day remember Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) ...
The Architecture of the Old Kingdom Period
The Great Pyramids of GizaThe Pyramid Complex at Giza consists of the three 4th Dynasty pyramids: Khufu (c. 2560 BC), Khafre (2558-2532 BC), and Menkaure (c. 2530-2510 BC), the Sphinx, attendant temples and outbuildings, and the private mastabas of the nobility. http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/archaeology/ Viewed as a ...
Byzantine Silver Bucket
The Vrap Treasure: Silver Bucket, 600s, Silver, 18.4×14.1 cm, 481g, the MET, NY, USA https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464115?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=Byzantine+art&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=15 Vrap (it means 'runni ...
La Carmencita by John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent, American Artist, 1856-1925La Carmencita, c. 1890, Oil on Canvas, 229,0 x 140,0 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Francehttps://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/la-carmencita-9161 Celebrated as the leading society portraitist of his era, write the NGA experts, John Singer Sargent influenced a generation o ...
Introduction to Egypt of the Pharaohs
The Palette of Narmer, c. 3200-3000 BC, Siltstone, 64 × 42 cm, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer_Palette The Ancient Egyptian civilization, famous for its pyramids, pharaohs, mummies, and tombs… flourished for thousands of years. How important was it, and what was its lasting impact ...
Simon Bening’s November
Simon Bening (d. 1561) and his workshopBook of Hours, known as the Golf Book November (f. 28v), c. 1540, 30 Parchment leaves on paper mounts, bound into a codex, 110 x 80 mm (text space: 85 x 60 mm), British Library, London, UKhttps://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/calendars/page/10/ I like spring, but it is too ...
Smash the Hun
Edward Hopper, American Artist, 1882–1967Smash the Hun, 1918, WWI poster by Edward Hopper for the in-house magazine of the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company in Brooklyn, where Hopper worked as an illustrator (issue of Feb 1919)https://rockwellcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Hopper-Smash-the-Hun1.jpg The Ameri ...
Miniature Mosaic Icon of Saint Demetrios in Sassoferrato
Mosaic Icon of Saint Demetrios at Sassoferrato, Mosaic Icon: 14th or 15th century, Ampulla: 13th or 14th century, Silver Frame: mid-15th century, Mosaic set into wax on a poplar board, paint, silver-gilt (frame), lead (ampulla), 24.3 X 16 cm, Museo Civico, Sassoferrato, Italy https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2015/11/a ...
Autumn by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527-1593The Four Seasons – Autumn, 1573, oil on canvas, 76x64 cm, Louvre Museum, Paris, France https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arcimboldo_Oto%C3%B1o.jpg The peasant celebrates with song and dance the harvest safely gathered in. The cup of Bacchus flows freely, and many find their relie ...
House of the Deer in Herculaneum
Still Life with Peaches and Water Jar, detail of a Fourth Style wall painting from the House of the Deer in Herculaneum, c. 62-69 C.E., fresco, 35.56 x 34.29 cm, Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/roman/wall-painting/a/still-life-with-peaches Accord ...
The Epiphany of Dionysus Mosaic in Delos
House of Dionysus, Epiphany of Dionysus, 2nd century BC, Mosaic, Delos Island, Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaics_of_Delos#/media/File:Delos_Museum_Mosaik_Dionysos_05.jpg In Euripides’s Bacchae, it is Teiresia's role, addressing Pentheus, to introduce Dionysus to the audience, just like the Epiphany of Di ...
The Red School House by Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer, American Artist, 1836 - 1910The Red School House, 1873, oil on canvas, 55.5 x 39.5 cm, NGA, Washington DC, USA https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66419.html On the 5th of October, we celebrate World Teachers’ Day, acknowledging the critical role teachers play in achieving inclusive, quali ...
Simon Bening’s October
Simon Bening (d. 1561) and his workshopBook of Hours, known as the Golf Book October (f. 27v), c. 1540, 30 Parchment leaves on paper mounts, bound into a codex, 110 x 80 mm (text space: 85 x 60 mm), British Library, London, UKhttps://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/calendars/page/10/ Reading Thomas Parker’sarticle ...