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Just before his tragic death by a mosquito bite in April 1923 Lord Carnarvon acquired a painter's palette carved from a single piece of ivory and inscribed with the cartouche of Amenhotep III, "beloved of Re".
Painting always gives me a supreme feeling of joy.😎
Greece since antiquity always had a special bond with horses and depicted them in our vessels and sculptures at the Parthenon. Were are now the 1st European country that enforced law against any malpractice on them including exportation for slaughtering. We Stand 4 Freedom.🇬🇷 https://t.co/7sXIG01axR
The FC trophy for 1849 was won by a thoroughbred named Belzoni. G Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known as the first to penetrate into the second pyramid of Giza. I am not sure if the horse was named after him...🤔 https://t.co/EQfoQ4a4qh
Yesterday, I became acquainted with the administrator of Talking Pyramids @Bennu. This is a fantastic site in Twitter. So delighted about it, as the Bennu Bird was the subject of my PhD. Thank you Vincent. Great job! Greetings to @maatimakhib also. #ILoveBennu. di anx bnw
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
ΙΑΩ - Dt - Eternity is beyond Time
Temple of Karnak, Thebes Sphinx Mystagoga, Giza
The Solar System The CMS I_179 Signet Ring of Tiryns
The four sons of Horus, guardians of the organs of the dead. Qebehsenuef, the falcon-headed god representing the West. Hapi, the baboon-headed god representing the North. Imsety, the human-headed god representing the South. Duamutef, the jackal-headed god representing the East.😎
Nature is the miracle of God; and art is the miracle of man.
True painting does not move emotions with the subject but with its colors.
Spyros Papaloukas (1892-1956)
One of the most important Greek painters. A master of the colors.
Today is Plácido Domingo's birthday!👏
Listen to him singing "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars shone"), 3rd act aria of Tosca, opera by Giacomo Puccini, 90 years after it premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.
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‘What people demand in art nowadays is something very much alive, with strong color and great intensity'.
The artistic evolution from Impressionism to Expressionism. Vincent Van Gogh, Summer of 1887.
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100 years ago, on Jan of 1920 Prof. James H Breasted, the founder of the Oriental Institute at the @UChicago, purchases from M. Nahman a bronze figure of Amun, inscribed hm-ntr n-'Imn, Nt-jqrt (Nitocris II, no E10584), the last high priestess in Karnak, 26th Dynasty, c. 525 BCE.