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The Golden Ratio in Greek Art and Architecture

choupinettelove wrote 2 days ago: Pythagoras (560-480 BC), the Greek geometer, was especially interested in the Golden Section, and pr … more →

Tags: Beauty, golden ratio, Greek Architecture, greek ideal, Sculpture, The Parthenon

Beginnings

Matthew Owen wrote 1 week ago: A few weeks ago, I took a short break from wrapping up my studies of Peck’s Atlas of Anatomy … more →

Tags: Art, Family, Life, charcoal, iconography, Ink, Leonid Ouspensky, Love, Marriage

A New View of the Hill – the Acropolis Museum Sets to Open

Artifactum / Jennifer Unruh wrote 1 month ago: The Acropolis Museum in Athens, originally planned to open 5 years ago, is now scheduled to open thi … more →

Tags: Art, art business, museums, galleries, Culture, INTERNATIONAL, Acropolis Museum, Athens museum, british museum offer, elgin

The Alexander Sarcophagus6 comments

100swallows wrote 2 months ago: Is this Alexander the Great’s tomb? No.  They call it the Alexander Sarcophagus because the r … more →

Tags: Art, Sculpture, Greek sculpture, Art History, stone carving, Alexander the Great

Art-Athina 09 Greek Contemporary Art Fair - artmarketblog.com2 comments

artforprofits wrote 2 months ago: Art-Athina 09 Greek Contemporary Art Fair – artmarketblog.com For Immediate Release ART-ATHINA … more →

Tags: Art, Art Fair, art market, art athina, greek art fair

art in the street2 comments

kfilippidou wrote 3 months ago: People tend to ignore art that is created or performed in the streets of our city however what these … more →

Tags: Artists, Architecture, Street Art, Exhibitions, graffiti, People, Buildings

teaching art1 comment

kfilippidou wrote 3 months ago: This year my younger cousin is graduating from school. Due to the way the Greek educational system i … more →

Tags: Architecture, Art Business, Education, Exhibitions, Interior design, Design, art schools, art courses

Beautiful People4 comments

kfilippidou wrote 3 months ago: I think most of you out there would agree with me on that: music is a driving force, is color, is e … more →

Tags: Artists, Events, Art Business, cultural shows, Theater, People

Greek Mythology's Magical Creatures

incitrio wrote 5 months ago: As we move away from Egyptian hieroglyphics to Greek mural paintings, we can see that instead of pai … more →

Tags: Art, Art History, art history for kids, attic geometric krater, bull leaping toreador fresco, doric and ionic orders, fresco from palace at knossos, fresco from west house of akrotiri, funerary mask from mycenae

Why Little Girl Goddess you ask?

littlegirlgoddess wrote 5 months ago: So, hi. I’m Emily. This is my blog. Fascinating so far? Right. I know. Because I lack anything … more →

Tags: Random Generalness, Art, Battlestar Galactica, NCIS

Altered art book Page 15 continued: A Trashy Romance2 comments

echostains wrote 6 months ago: page15-someone-was-god Page 15 continued…….. The words on this page are: - ‘Someon … more →

Tags: altered art book, Art, Altered Art, andy warhol, Dirty White Trash, elvis cowboy, empire of junk, Gavin Turk, greek goddess

Drawing from Art

amanda wrote 9 months ago: Miu Miu Spring Summer 2009 Numerous fabrics from this line draw from Greek tiled mosaics, Hellenist … more →

Tags: Obsessions, Fashion, Awesome, Paris fashion week, miu miu, spring summer 2009, Art History, Hellenism, mosaics

Μουσείο Μπενάκη

leros wrote 9 months ago: Το Μουσείο Μπενάκη,ιδρύθηκε το 1930  από τον Αντώνη Μπενάκη στην μνήμη του πατέρα του Εμμανουήλ Μπεν … more →

Tags: Articles, Politics, Culture, Art, κουλτούρα, Αρχιτεκτονική, ΑΘΗΝΑ, βυζαντιο, κινηματογραφος

Bernini's First Important Statue10 comments

100swallows wrote 10 months ago: What is this? Who is that burly guy and why is he carrying an old man? The burly guy is Aeneas, th … more →

Tags: Art, Michelangelo, Sculpture, Great Artists, Bernini, stone carving, Art History, Greek ceramic vessels, Baroque

The Great Contest9 comments

100swallows wrote 1 year ago: The two greatest painters of classical times—Zeuxis and Parhassius—met in a duel. Who was better? Z … more →

Tags: Art, Great Artists, Oil Painting, Art History, Aesthetics, Painters, painting contest, astuteness, Zeuxis

Jon: Word of the Week: Obscene...2 comments

gaycondo wrote 1 year ago: I was just reading the current issue of Art in America, my new favorite magazine. One of the articl … more →

Tags: Art, Queer, Gay, Word of the Week, History, , definition, obscene, Greek

Bern: Museumsnacht Bern

cultureonthecheap wrote 1 year ago: Sadly, with the decline of the US dollar, we no longer have too much to brag about compared to the S … more →

Tags: switzerland, Visual Arts, other museum, Ancient Art, Museum night, Museumsnacht, Bern, Antiquities, Roman Art

Amazing images from greek museums and greek myths1 comment

tkoletsis wrote 1 year ago: East and West Pediment of the temple of Zeus which representsthe battle between the Lapiths and Cen … more →

Tags: Ancient Greece, Greek Museums, Greek Myths, Greek history, marble sculpture, Delphi, Temples, Olympia, ancient Olympic games

Hip Hop Culture Infiltrates the Art World1 comment

Temple3 wrote 1 year ago: Nothing says, “My bad,” like a quarter million dollar payoff. It appears that when the … more →

Tags: Culture, racism, Race, corruption, Art, Getty Museum, stolen antiquities, US Council on Foundations, Roman Art


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