Easy Art Symbols
Friday, August 16, 2013
Prehistoric art
Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel
Germany
40,000 BC
mammoth tusk
Venus of Hohle Fels. Germany Mammoth tusk
Horse - Germany Mammoth Tusk
South Africa
77,000 BC
Friday, August 9, 2013
Inferno 5 - Dore's etchings
Gustave Dore
There are 136 plates in the Dante series.
Dante Series
http://www.worldofdante.org/gallery_dore.html
1.43 Lion
1.88 Shewolf
1.136 Dark Wood
2.1 Dark Wood
2.70 Beatrice
3.7 Gate of Hell
3.76 Charon
4.40 Limbo
4.94 Poets in Limbo
5.4 Minos
5.31 Lustful
5.136 Paolo and Francesca
5.142 Dante's swoon
6.25 Cerberus
6.61 Gluttons
7.7 Plutus
7.25 Avaricious and Prodigal
7.115 Wrathful
8.28 Styx
8.40 Wrathful
8.112 Outskirts of Dis
9.43 Furies
9.88 Celestial messenger
9.127 Farinata
10.40 Farinata
11.4 Anastasius' tomb
12.10 Minotaur
12.61 Centaurs
12.76 Centaurs 2
13.10 Harpies
13.31 Pier della Vigna
13.118 Spendthrifts
14.40 Violent
15.28 Brunetto
17.7 Geryon
17.121 Geryon
18.37 Panderers
19.49 Nicholas III
21.52 Tormented barrator
21.70 Malebranche
22.124 Alichino
22.139 Fighting devils
23.52 Malebranche
23.115 Caiaphas
24.91 Thieves
25.7Thieves
25.67 Agnello
26.46 False Counselors
28.73 Schismatics
28.118 Bertran de Born
29.4 Bertran de Born
29.55 Falsifiers
29.82 Falsifiers
30.37 Myhrra
31.70 Nimrod
31.91 Giants
32.19 Cocytus
32.97 Bocca degli Abati
32.130 Ugolino
33.64 Ugolino
33.67 Ugolino's Despair
34.133 Exit from Hell
34.139 Stars
34.34 Satan
Purgatory
These next two plates are from John Milton's Paradise Lost and show satan and his army of rebel angels getting cast out of heaven. these two engravings inspired the shot in LOTR where gandalf and the balrog fall into the underground lake
O fond Arachne! thee I also saw
Half spider now in anguish crawling up
Th’ unfinish’d web thou weaved’st to thy bane!
Complete book of Dante with Dore's etchings at appropriate chapters.
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dante/d19pu/complete.html
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