She walks into a room, and it goes quiet, every eye on her. Polychrome statue of Venus, from a shrine in a nameless home in #Pompeii#archaeology#MANNapoli (inv. 109608)
I mean, if you're going to do a version of Polykleitos' Doryphoros then why not do one in Egyptian basanite... That stone's so gorgeous! ca. Early 1st Century AD. AncientBlueSky Image: Uffizi Gallery, Florence (inv.1914 n.308). My own photo
Takashi Murakami (Japanese, b. 1962), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001. Acrylic on canvas on board, 200 x 200 cm.
I have been deleted my account from there and never been ever happier! The ragebait content in there always reigns supreme over there!!!!
The Louvre has cleaned it’s magnificent Hans Holbein portrait of Anne of Cleves… it’s been transformed
Historically, Marcus Antonius, during his trip to Egypt to visit Cleopatra VII, has always considered himself to be an embodiment of Zeus-Serapis-Dionysus, consort of Isis Aphrodite, but I just think the icon of armed muscular Ares/Mars always suited him more, and look the best.
With various mistresses & marriages to Fadia, Antonia, Fulvia, Octavia the Younger, and Cleopatra, their descendants later went to become famous Roman statesmen, or went on to rule the Roman Empire, as well as various client kingdoms of modern-day Eastern Europe, Middle East, North Africa as well.