Post the pictures, views and paintings you find beautiful, interesting, relaxing.
And please post the paintings with the name and artist
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Rome
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Prague
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Somewhere in the Mediterranean
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The Four Continents
The men represent the continents
- Europe
- Asia
- Africa
- America
and women represent major rivers:
- the Danube
- the Ganges
- the Nile
- the Río de la Plata.
more Peter Paul Rubens’s works :
The god of vine and parties :
Ofcourse Saturn devouring his son out of fear of a prophecy by that one of his children would overthrow him
Saturn again now painted by
Francisco Goya
who in his later years became deaf and resorted into living most of the time in his old house. When he died they found out that he used to also paint on walls of his rooms. It was mostly disturbing images - Saturn being one of them
And ofcourse Raphael’s School of Athens which depicts all of the most important and iconic ancient philosophers from history. Its kind of like ultimate fanart of philosophers in one huge piece.
Plato and Aristotle are featured in the center
there are also
- Socrates
- Pythagoras
- Archimedes
- Heraclitus
- Zarathustra
- Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are believed to be portrayed through Plato and Heraclitus, respectively
- Raphael included a self-portrait beside Ptolemy
Depiction of Socrates before his death ( he was ordered by the state to poison himself ) as he is telling his students ( who wish for him to escape instead )
Socrates defines death as the separation of the soul from the body - total cessation of sensation and therefore - pain. As he said "death is not to be feared, but to be welcomed.
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Blue Mosque, Turkey
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Clément Pujol de Guastavino / The Sultan And The Messenger
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Portrait of Sultan Mehmed Khan II, the Conqueror.
-Gentile Bellini
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Probably Lake Como or another one of those Italian lakes
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