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Gian Lorenzo Bernini - The Ecstasy of St Teresa, 1647-52. Marble
This piece is great. I love Bernini! If you look up more information about this piece and see a close up… it’s interesting. haha We had a lot of fun with this piece in my art history classes.
Happy Birthday to Salvador Dalí who turns 108 today. In honour of the legendary artist, here are some of his iconic surrealist artworks.
“My Wife, Nude, Contemplating Her Own Flesh Becoming Stairs, Three Vertebrae of a Column, Sky and Architecture”
-Salvador Dali, 1945
“If you are going to go through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill.
Knight of Death -Salvador Dali
New Van Gogh Painting Discovered
“Still Life With Meadow Flowers And Roses” was thought to be the work of an unknown artist until x-rays recently revealed an image underneath that proved the piece is an authentic Van Gogh
Currently working on a paper about the Garden of Earthly Delights by Heronymus Bosch. This lovely image is in the hellscape. Did you know that Metallica also used this in their music video for “Until it Sleeps”? Pretty awesome.
Salvador Dali
“Le Gran Pavon”
Where Next? Edward Frederick Brewtnall c.1890s
1904
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
oil on wood panel
The Bleeding Roses -Salvador Dali
“Sara, you’re the poet in my heart
Never change, and don’t you ever stop (stop)
Now it’s gone
No, it doesn’t matter anymore
When you build your house
I’ll come by” -Stevie Nicks
