wanderingzeffyr:

Floating lanterns, Thailand (2011) Patrice Carlton

National Geographic, December 2011

Photograph

An anonymous author’s novel written on the walls of an abandoned house in Chongqing, China

cavetocanvas:

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Temple at Paestum, c. 1770-78

From the Rijksmuseum:

The eighteenth-century artist Piranesi has depicted the Temple of Juno in Paestum, once a Greek colony in south-western Italy. This drawing is part of a series of views of Paestum. Piranesi was fascinated by classical architecture. He was especially renowned for his fantastic views of Roman ruins. With this drawing Piranesi perpetuated a long-standing tradition of ‘pastoral’ landscapes in which the everyday life of simple peasants and shepherds was romanticised. For centuries, ruins with shepherds and cattle remained a popular artistic theme.

cavetocanvas:

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, San Paolo fuori delle Mura, c. late 18th century

supplicem:

Isle of the dead - Arnold Bocklin - 1883

acidwestern:

odysseus and calypso by arnold böcklin

wanderingzeffyr:

The enigma of the arrival and the afternoon (1912) Georgio De Chirico.

Oil on canvas, 70 x 86.5cm.

Private collection.

mithra33:

Galleria Borghese, Roma

Venere Vincitrice (1801)

Antonio Canova

artaddictsanonymous:

Bernini, Detail of Blessed Ludovica Albertoni (in Altieri Chapel in San Francesco a Ripa Church), 1671-74