electricalice:

mrsbeefheart:

I fukin love 14th century art art because everyone looks so shady and suspicious of ppl around them its AMAZING

or just like they know something u dont and oh my gdfuck i cant

I believe the highest point is reached in Simone Martini’s Annunciation

and the look of absolute hatred Mary and Gabriel exchange. 

sparth:

scenery in squares. from Structura II

tastefullyoffensive:

Sculptures in Modern Day Clothes [alexispersani]

art-of-swords:

Details of a Mughal Dagger

• Unknown Artist / Maker
• Dated: 1562
• Culture: Delhi, India
• Medium:  steel, rock crystal, gold, rubies, emeralds, diamonds
• Measurements: Length: 39 cm; weight: 0.31 kg, without scabbard

The hilt of this magnificent Mughal dagger is fashioned from rock crystal inlaid with gold and set with rubies, emeralds and diamonds. The name “Claud Martin” is lightly inscribed in tiny letters on one panel of the stone, half-way up the grip.

Claude Martin was a Frenchman who fought against the British in India, but changed sides following the siege and fall of Pondicherry in 1790-1. He joined the army of the British East India Company as an Ensign.

He worked his way up through the ranks to become Major General in charge of the Lucknow Arsenal. He is recorded as having been an enthusiastic collector of princely Mughal Indian arms and armour, so this dagger was presumably once his.

Source & Copyright: The Wallace Collection

likeafieldmouse:

Kim Keever

“Miniature topographies inside 200-gallon fish tanks, based on traditional landscape paintings. Keever fills the tanks with water once he’s sculpted and placed the miniatures, and colored lights and pigments create dense, atmospheric environments. He views his works as an evolution of the landscape tradition and deliberately acknowledges the conceptual artifice.” 

kadrey:

Monsters Added to Dull Yard Sale & Thrift Store Landscape Paintings

http://laughingsquid.com/monsters-added-to-dull-yard-sale-thrift-store-landscape-paintings/

archiemcphee:

These awesome photos are from the 2013 Weston Sand Sculpture Festival on the sandy shores of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. Each year the festival has a different theme and this year’s theme is Hollywood.

“Since the festival started in 2006, themes have included Fairy Tales, The Continents of the World, Under the Ocean, Great Britain, and The Jungle. What began with two Dutch sand sculptors building a giant King Kong from 30 tonnes of sand has now turned into a world famous get-together of some of the niftiest hands in sand sculpting.

More than 20 of the world’s greatest sculptors from nine different countries are working away using 4,000 tonnes of sand from the beach.”

The festival opened on Good Friday and runs through the end of September.

Visit Dailymail.co.uk to view more of the awesome sand sculptures from this year’s Weston Sand Sculpture Festival.

[via Free York and Dailymail.co.uk]

thegreathufflepuffseb:

heismyfirstolive:

timelordsandhunters:

is nobody going to talk about this painting 

i mean those men are just casually rIDING THEIR BEARDS NBD

never mind them, i’m more concerned about the guy kidnapping a woman with his beard

one guy’s using his mustache to steer

gothicsugar:

cool-jelly:

jdotslack:

feeling-salty:

I will never not reblog this, because it just gives me so many feels.

aww.

damn…

what do you mean drawn better thats the best fucking stickman ive ever seen fuck you

lol, that last comment

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thecontentsofmysoul:

shit just got real

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