Art--You Philistines

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Art--You Philistines

Post by de officiis » Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:24 pm

Carrying forward a tradition of the DCF. ;)

The Vintage Festival. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1870). Oil on canvas

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The Antique Juggling Girl. Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896). Oil on canvas

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View from the Artist's Studio in Alservorstadt toward Dornbach. Jakob Alt (1836)

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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by C-Mag » Thu Dec 01, 2016 8:49 pm

I'm thinking about Thomas Coles Course of Empire


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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by de officiis » Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:31 pm

Yes that's quite the dreadful painting. Is it 410 AD?
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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by C-Mag » Thu Dec 01, 2016 9:42 pm

de officiis wrote:Yes that's quite the dreadful painting. Is it 410 AD?

I don't know that Cole actually had any timelines on it, but it looks like Carthage to me. Are you familiar with his 5 painting series, The Course of Empire ? This one is called Destruction.
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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by de officiis » Fri Dec 02, 2016 6:39 am

C-Mag wrote:
de officiis wrote:Yes that's quite the dreadful painting. Is it 410 AD?

I don't know that Cole actually had any timelines on it, but it looks like Carthage to me. Are you familiar with his 5 painting series, The Course of Empire ? This one is called Destruction.
I wasn't, but I checked them out after your suggestion. They're pretty cool. The city is imaginary, but per Wikipedia, "Destruction" is thought to be based on the sack of Rome by the Vandals in 455.
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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by Ex-California » Fri Dec 02, 2016 7:05 am

Danielle Bolleli's great History on Fire podcast had a great series on Caravaggio. TBH, I really have no interest in art but the life of Caravaggio gave me an interest in him and his awesome paintings

http://www.caravaggio-foundation.org

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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by Hastur » Fri Dec 02, 2016 7:08 am

I really like how we can post large images and how they scale. This thread will get much easier to post in now.

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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by adwinistrator » Fri Dec 02, 2016 8:00 am

Salvador Dali, Down The Rabbit Hole

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From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published by New York’s Maecenas Press-Random House in 1969.


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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by de officiis » Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:13 am

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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1640. Oil on canvas.

This painting was recently restored; details about the process are available here.
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Re: Art--You Philistines

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:39 pm

Until I saw it pointed out in WestWorld, I had absolutely no idea that this was the shape of the human brain, on the right, containing God. What fucking genius, if it's true.

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Is there any research done, or a consensus on whether that was the intent?
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