This blog will be the home of things I find beautiful, including but not limited to art, architecture, music, nature, literature, and people.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Theseus defeating the Centaur (at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna)
(Source: jaapanese)
Demonstration of the X27 color NVGs
Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe, made in London, 1783 (via).
Giorgio Vasari, (1511–1574)The Battle of Lepanto, c. 1572
The combined Christian navel forces (Holy League) of Spain, Venice, and the Papacy defeated the Turkish fleet at Lepanto, October 7, 1571. Vasari was commissioned by Pope Pius to commemorate the event in the Sala Regia in the Vatican. The foreground includes an allegorical representation of the three Christian powers.
(Source: myartblogcollection.blogspot.com)
Eurasian Eagle-owl ✮
by Rob Reijnen
A river running under an aquaduct on the Roman campagna, 1904, Ettore Roesler Franz
Burmese dha with brass scabbard and hilt, 19th century.
from Czerny’s International Auction House
(Source: czernys.com)
