Wow. Saw this stunning object at the V&A in London.
The Eltenberg Reliquary is a magnificent 12th-century masterpiece of Rhenish Romanesque art - 1180 AD.
Probably used to house sacred relics, e.g. the Eucharist.
Has that Byzantine dome, gilded bronze, exquisitely carved ivory ...
It shows how redundant our views of the Middle Ages as the ‘Dark Ages’, as little more than mud and superstition.
I took this photo earlier this week around midnight.
Designed by Christopher Wren, and modelled on St Peter’s in Rome.
Famous masterpiece by Paolo Uccello. I saw this at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Uccello was one of the early pioneers of linear perspective in art, and he used this painting to show off. All lines converge at a single vanishing point deep in the pitch-black center of the forest.
Just saw this YouTube video.
A theatre showing of Caravaggio’s “living paintings” đ
My favourite statute at the British Museum.
This is a statue of Ganymede (Roman copy of Greek original).
Ganymede was a Greco-Romano coda or symbol of same-sex attraction in classical mythology and art. (Technically, not "homosexuality" as we understand it today.)
But, I like to us gays represented, and looking gorgeous. đ