Details of the Tara Brooch, 8th c. Hiberno-Saxon. Images taken from ARTstor. Click through the photo for a larger image.
(Source: historiated)
Gold cuff bracelet of Prince Nemareth
Made from Gold and Lapis Lazuli
c.940 BC
22nd Dynasty
(Source: The British Museum)
Great Sphinx, Egypt (1921)
Photograph by Donald McLeish. National Geographic Society.
“Everything popular is wrong.”
— Oscar WildeHipsters are not a new phenomenon.
I liked Oscar Wilde before he was a hipster.
(Source: vintageanchorbooks)
Asklepios. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC. The inscription on the plinth indicates the statuette to be a votive gift.
Courtesy & currently located at the Vatican Museums, Italy. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen
Wounded Amazon, Roman copy of Greek original by Phidias with head a replica from Polykleitos, 440-430 BC, Marble.
Courtesy & currently located at the Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy. Photo taken by mharrsch.
Ancient Roman relief from Trajan’s Column, 113AD
Ancient Roman marble Portrait of Antinous (AD 112–130) as a priest of the imperial cult. Found in Cyrene, Libya.
Striding sphinx. Phoenician, 899–700 B.C. From Nimrud, Fort Shalmaneser, Room SW 11/12. Ivory.
Located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Colossal bust of Zeus known as Jupiter of Versailles. Found in 1525 near the Porta del Popolo in Rome. Given in 1623 to Louis XIV, who asked Jacques Drouilly to transform it into a herm pillar. Marble, 2nd century CE.
Photo taken by Jastrow at the Louvre, Paris, France.
