This is amazing! Such a piece of art.

Artist Luo Li Rong

My favourite of Rodin’s works were the hand fragments. There were so many, some broken off and discarded from larger works like the Gates of Hell, others as studies for poses and casts. Hands are my favourite of all the body’s shapes, with their endless, endless holding 

frank o'hara's "having a coke with you" / mark leidner's "having 'having a coke with you' with you"

"The little girl. Head of a Child " By Helnwein

Animal Crossing Postcards made by Stephology

The Louvre Museum.

18/07/2021

Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Luján.

...and they’ll still have too much.

A unique Victorian interior in the Victorian Home Museum, in Copenhagen Denmark.

⚜ Victorian month on @mynocturnality

Palazzo Altemps.

Daily Mirror, England, February 5, 1938

Gaia, by Luke Jerram, at The Old Painted Hall in London. The installation aims to create a sense of the Overview Effect (a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment) through mimicking the experience of astronauts passing the planet from afar. It was pretty beautiful at night, especially in the setting of the hall which is already so breathtaking. 

A serie in progress around museum things and my own world!

Ennead Architects’ Shanghai Astronomy Museum

Ennead Architects has unveiled its completed Shanghai Astronomy Museum, the celestial object-focused new branch of the landmark Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in the city’s Pudong district. (The Perkins&Will-designed Shanghai Natural History Museum at Jing’an Sculpture Park is the museum’s other main satellite location.) Spanning 420,000 square feet, the expansive facility, which opens to the public on July 18, is the largest astronomy (only) museum in the world.

Mosaicos Zeugma, Turquía

07.02.2021 | francesca alexander in the biblioteca nazionale centrale di firenze and angelica kauffman, self portrait as the muse of painting, in the uffizi

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) "The Floor Scrapers" (1875) Oil on canvas Impressionism Located in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors of the Salon, Paris' most prestigious art exhibition, and was deemed a "vulgar subject matter". Calliebotte instead showed it at the second exhibition of the Impressionists.

More than 2,600 years after their creation, Assyrian reliefs continue to amaze us.

The "Ashurbanipal Lion Hunt" is a group of bas-reliefs, originally located in the "North Palace" of Nineveh and now exhibited in Room 10 of the British Museum, considered a masterpiece of Mesopotamian art.

These magnificent reliefs were carved on large panels of alabaster and limestone between 645-635 BC. and they show hunting scenes of King Ashurbanipal (reign, 668-631 BC) and in a very real way, the pain of the animals.