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Roberto Ferri: Anxo caído
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« Naïade ». Roberto Ferri
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Vanitas (2014) | Roberto Ferri
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Roberto Ferri (1978-) "L'ala nera o il tocco dell'angelo" ("The black wing or the touch of the angel") (2020) Tempera on canvas
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L'angelo, la morte e il diavolo (detail), Roberto Ferri, 2018.
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L'angelo, la morte e il diavolo (Roberto Ferri)
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John William Waterhouse-Orpheus John William Waterhouse-The Lady of Shalott-1888
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Princess Taraknova, c. 1864, by Konstantin Flavitsky
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henriplantagenet-deactivated201
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the way ivan aivazovsky looks at the sea…i think…i think that’s what love looks like.
love is surrounding yourself with people who see you this clearly
Still the freakiest fact about him is that despite being as tall as a person or more, he banged out these beauties in a day or two at most (and smaller ones ina matter of hours). The longest he spent on a painting, at age 81, to make his largest ever painting, was TEN DAYS:
It is 2.9×4.3 meters large. That’s 9'4"×14'1" for people in other measurement systems. It’s HUGE. There are artists out there that spend years on paintings much smaller than this. He was not one of them.
He also didn’t only paint the sea, but he MOSTLY painted the sea. Very few people could draw light filtering through waves the way this guy did and apparently it was tied into his layering technique that allowed him to paint so goddamn fast.
He is obviously my most favorite painter ever.
Springtime
Pierre-Auguste Cot
1873
New York, Metropolitan Museum
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ophelia, friedrich wilhelm theodor heyser // ophelia, jean-baptiste bertrand // ophelia, sir john everett millais // ophelia, léopold burthe // ophelia, theodor von der beek.
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Moonxels aka Moonchild aka David Demaret (French, b. Gif-sur-Yvette, France, based Paris, France) - Self Combustion, 2013, Digital Arts: Drawing
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Nikolai Kochergin’s illustration for the tale “The Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov.
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Fun fact: According to Greek legend there was a famous prostitute who managed to avoid a death sentence by showing the judges her boobs and arguing that it would be a crime against the Gods to destroy something so beautiful.
Before you ask, yes there are paintings of this. And yes, they’re amazing.
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APHRODITE
- Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and passion. Her main powers catered towards love and desire which allowed her to easily seduce any person of her choosing. She was the subject and model for the famous sculpture 'Venus de Milo'. Aphrodite was directly responsible for the Trojan war. She sided with the Trojans in the Trojan War because Paris and her son, the hero Aeneas, were Trojans. She also persuaded the god of war, Ares, to support Troy during the war. In book III of Homer's Iliad, it is told that Aphrodite eventually saves Paris when Menelaus is about to kill him.