thegetty: stilllifequickheart: Louise Moillon Still Life with Bowl of Curacao Oranges 1634 Louise Moillon stopped painting when she reached her 30s, and did not resume for the last 50 years of her life. No one fully understands why, though a Calvinist husband is implicated. Fruits, beautiful fruits, were her specialty. This treasure and her cherries are in the collection of the Norton-Simon Museum here in L.A. Click through for the cherries, which are amazing.
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Louise Moillon

Still Life with Bowl of Curacao Oranges

1634

Louise Moillon stopped painting when she reached her 30s, and did not resume for the last 50 years of her life. No one fully understands why, though a Calvinist husband is implicated. Fruits, beautiful fruits, were her specialty.

This treasure and her cherries are in the collection of the Norton-Simon Museum here in L.A.

Click through for the cherries, which are amazing.

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September 12, 1940: The Lascaux cave paintings are discovered. The discoverers of the celebrated Paleolithic cave paintings were four teenagers, who had stumbled upon the site while searching for their lost dog. Located in southwestern France, the Lascaux cave system was first studied by and introduced to the public by archaeologist-priest Henri Breuil. It was opened to the public in 1948, but it closed once more in 1963 in order to help preserve the paintings. Nearly 2,000 illustrations, of animals (stags, bison, cattle), humans, and other, more abstract designs, can be found in the Lascaux caves; these illustrations are some of the oldest examples of any sort of high-quality, complex art, estimated to be anywhere from 13,000 to 25,000 years old. These paintings are divided into several sections, including a “Great Hall of the Bulls”, which contains some of the cave’s most famous pieces - black aurochs, one of them measuring over seventeen feet across. Other sections include a “Chamber of Felines”, and “the Shaft of the Dead Man”. The purpose of these paintings remains obscure - perhaps the caves were regarded as sacred places, where special rites were performed, or maybe our prehistoric ancestors really, really liked painting animals.
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September 12, 1940: The Lascaux cave paintings are discovered. The discoverers of the celebrated Paleolithic cave paintings were four teenagers, who had stumbled upon the site while searching for their lost dog. Located in southwestern France, the Lascaux cave system was first studied by and introduced to the public by archaeologist-priest Henri Breuil. It was opened to the public in 1948, but it closed once more in 1963 in order to help preserve the paintings. Nearly 2,000 illustrations, of animals (stags, bison, cattle), humans, and other, more abstract designs, can be found in the Lascaux caves; these illustrations are some of the oldest examples of any sort of high-quality, complex art, estimated to be anywhere from 13,000 to 25,000 years old. These paintings are divided into several sections, including a “Great Hall of the Bulls”, which contains some of the cave’s most famous pieces - black aurochs, one of them measuring over seventeen feet across. Other sections include a “Chamber of Felines”, and “the Shaft of the Dead Man”. The purpose of these paintings remains obscure - perhaps the caves were regarded as sacred places, where special rites were performed, or maybe our prehistoric ancestors really, really liked painting animals.
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September 12, 1940: The Lascaux cave paintings are discovered. The discoverers of the celebrated Paleolithic cave paintings were four teenagers, who had stumbled upon the site while searching for their lost dog. Located in southwestern France, the Lascaux cave system was first studied by and introduced to the public by archaeologist-priest Henri Breuil. It was opened to the public in 1948, but it closed once more in 1963 in order to help preserve the paintings. Nearly 2,000 illustrations, of animals (stags, bison, cattle), humans, and other, more abstract designs, can be found in the Lascaux caves; these illustrations are some of the oldest examples of any sort of high-quality, complex art, estimated to be anywhere from 13,000 to 25,000 years old. These paintings are divided into several sections, including a “Great Hall of the Bulls”, which contains some of the cave’s most famous pieces - black aurochs, one of them measuring over seventeen feet across. Other sections include a “Chamber of Felines”, and “the Shaft of the Dead Man”. The purpose of these paintings remains obscure - perhaps the caves were regarded as sacred places, where special rites were performed, or maybe our prehistoric ancestors really, really liked painting animals.
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September 12, 1940: The Lascaux cave paintings are discovered.

The discoverers of the celebrated Paleolithic cave paintings were four teenagers, who had stumbled upon the site while searching for their lost dog. Located in southwestern France, the Lascaux cave system was first studied by and introduced to the public by archaeologist-priest Henri Breuil. It was opened to the public in 1948, but it closed once more in 1963 in order to help preserve the paintings.

Nearly 2,000 illustrations, of animals (stags, bison, cattle), humans, and other, more abstract designs, can be found in the Lascaux caves; these illustrations are some of the oldest examples of any sort of high-quality, complex art, estimated to be anywhere from 13,000 to 25,000 years old. These paintings are divided into several sections, including a “Great Hall of the Bulls”, which contains some of the cave’s most famous pieces - black aurochs, one of them measuring over seventeen feet across. Other sections include a “Chamber of Felines”, and “the Shaft of the Dead Man”. The purpose of these paintings remains obscure - perhaps the caves were regarded as sacred places, where special rites were performed, or maybe our prehistoric ancestors really, really liked painting animals.

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straightgirl:

i love medieval art it’s like

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first there’s a bull just shittin on this guy

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gremlin dude shooting arrows into a mermaids ass ok

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someone fuckin boneless dancing to this hot violin song what

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my favorite one a bunch of amputees beating the shit outta each other with crutches

idk why they call it the dark ages when they’re obviously so fun

And people wonder why I concentrated on medieval art in my art history major.

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bborgia: The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X) DOWNLOAD Art of the Islamic World The Art of Africa The Art of Ancient Egypt The Art of the Ancient Near East The Art of Renaissance Europe The Art of South and Southeast Asia The Arts of Korea Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath Medieval Art Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roman Art !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS
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bborgia: The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X) DOWNLOAD Art of the Islamic World The Art of Africa The Art of Ancient Egypt The Art of the Ancient Near East The Art of Renaissance Europe The Art of South and Southeast Asia The Arts of Korea Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath Medieval Art Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roman Art !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS
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bborgia: The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X) DOWNLOAD Art of the Islamic World The Art of Africa The Art of Ancient Egypt The Art of the Ancient Near East The Art of Renaissance Europe The Art of South and Southeast Asia The Arts of Korea Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath Medieval Art Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roman Art !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS
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bborgia: The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X) DOWNLOAD Art of the Islamic World The Art of Africa The Art of Ancient Egypt The Art of the Ancient Near East The Art of Renaissance Europe The Art of South and Southeast Asia The Arts of Korea Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath Medieval Art Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roman Art !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS
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bborgia: The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X) DOWNLOAD Art of the Islamic World The Art of Africa The Art of Ancient Egypt The Art of the Ancient Near East The Art of Renaissance Europe The Art of South and Southeast Asia The Arts of Korea Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath Medieval Art Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roman Art !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS
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bborgia: The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X) DOWNLOAD Art of the Islamic World The Art of Africa The Art of Ancient Egypt The Art of the Ancient Near East The Art of Renaissance Europe The Art of South and Southeast Asia The Arts of Korea Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath Medieval Art Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roman Art !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU GUYS
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bborgia:

The MET has got some wonderful, fully illustrated textbooks that are available online for free! (X)

DOWNLOAD
  1. Art of the Islamic World
  2. The Art of Africa
  3. The Art of Ancient Egypt
  4. The Art of the Ancient Near East
  5. The Art of Renaissance Europe
  6. The Art of South and Southeast Asia
  7. The Arts of Korea
  8. Auguste Rodin: The Burghers of Calais
  9. Greek Art from Prehistoric to Classical
  10. Islamic Art and Geometric Design: Activities for Learning
  11. A Masterwork of Byzantine Art — The Story of David and Goliath
  12. Medieval Art
  13. Nature Within Walls: The Chinese Garden Court at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  14. Roman Art

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