Orpheus Returning from the Shades

William Blake Richmond (1842–1921)

Royal Academy of Arts

Bernini’s Equestrian Statue of King Louis XIV, Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Makings of a Parisian Evening; when the lights turn on… Valentine’s Day is now heading to be a bit more Romantic… 

Bronze Youth, British Museum, London

Edfu temple

nice scolding by Pippa-pppx

San Giovanni in Laterano, Roma

Nubian Thoth

Thoth in Nubian interpretation: in his human form with two-snakes-staff  (based on images from Nubian temples)

Francesco Cairo, Saint Sebastian tended by Irene, c.1635

Paul Cézanne - Bathers, 1870.

amulet (wood, H.4,1cm) of the God Horus (falcon-headed and wearing the Double Crown) standing on two rebels’ heads; 664–30 BCE; now in the Metropolitan Museum…

the God Horus the Child wearing the Double Crown and the sidelock of youth, and with a finger on His lips. Detail of an amulet, 664–30 BCE; now in the Metropolitan Museum…

detail of a bronze triad of Osiris (in the middle) flanked by Horus the Child (at left) and Isis (at right); ca. 664-30 BCE Osiris wears the White Crown with two feathers and holds the flail and the ‘heqa’-scepter; Isis wears the Solar disk with cow’s horns; Horus the Child wears the Double Crown and the sidelock of youth

Elihu Vedder, Marsyas Enchanting The Hares, 1878

David Williams