Classical Art Thread

[Pandagnome]

Chimu Mantle Textile Peru, years ago?

A good looking picnic rug!

Vik Muniz - Medusa Marinara, 1999

Evil Pasta sauce gaze too long into those eyes & forever lose your mind to the pasta :O

Celtic Trinity Knot Symbol, early 500bc

A magic logo looks like an ancient throwing star mashed with a hollowed Frisbee!

Fire devil mask Sri lanka, year?

stylish just like those tiki masks

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Ronyn]

 

[PartTimeJedi]

I call these- "Hercules attempting to give his cat a pill" lol But seriously love the muscle definition in the sculptures

 

[Mahdi]

My favorite on here so far by a mile!!

 

[PartTimeJedi]

Medieval groupie

 

[Pandagnome]

My favorite on here so far by a mile!!

I can imagine this knight sneezing through the helmet due to hayfever damn you and those flowers!

 

[Pandagnome]

Pierre bonnard the white cat 1894

Long legs a cat recon as a table!

Woman with the fan 1917

An extra breeze with a fan if she had 2 perhaps she could fly hmm

La Jeune Fille et la Mort, Marianne Stokes 1900

"Hello i am the Reaper, you probably heard of me & i have come for your tooth as the tooth fairy is on holiday"

 

[PartTimeJedi]

Pierre bonnard the white cat 1894
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Long legs a cat recon as a table!

Woman with the fan 1917
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An extra breeze with a fan if she had 2 perhaps she could fly hmm

La Jeune Fille et la Mort, Marianne Stokes 1900
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"Hello i am the Reaper, you probably heard of me & i have come for your tooth as the tooth fairy is on holiday"

Love this one! So cool!

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Pandagnome]

Love this one! So cool! View attachment 5338

Nice wings too just like a glider!

Knight Among Flowers, Leon Wyczółkowski, 1904

As if i see in front of my window!

The Devil's wings 19th century

A contemplating devil considering its next move!

Dancing cats 1920s-1940s

Those wild cats are loose!

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Pandagnome]

Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh 1889

Swirly clouds like my drain then again a hot drink stirred away.

Starry Fighter Night over the Rhone

An X wing most go where an X wing must go into the skies.

Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church 1859

An adventeurers travel to the furthest parts greeted with mosquitos and maybe more?

Hermes staff

One of my faves also used by the medical corps

 

[Salvatore]

 

[Mahdi]

Another point for the Em-8ER team! Lovin’ these medieval armor ones.

 

[Pandagnome]

The Arms & Armor Department Museum 1912

More shiny armor even for your horse!

Here is more:
https://www.wallacecollection.org/a...-renaissance-armour-materials-and-techniques/

Tsuba (sword guard) Edo period, 17th century

The story goes with the image of Bukan, who lived in China during the Tang dynasty, is said to have traveled on the back of a tiger he had tamed, the animal's ferocity having yielded to the monk's virtue.


Left side bronze facing of a shield from the Spartans, 425 BC
Right side bronze shield blazon (head of a Gorgon), first half of the sixth century BC

Shield blazons were sometimes meant to terrify one’s opponents (at least symbolically).