The Pantheon In Paris, Source

Deux Arabesques, CD.74 / L.66 - II. Allegretto Scherzando In G Major (Deuxième Arabesque)

By Composer Claude Debussy

Performed By Pianist Francis-Joel Thiollier

here’s Debussy’s Clair de Lune in 8-bit

Always incredible to witness something like this. Shoutout to everyone that pulled an all nighter to see this. Captured just outside of Wichita, Kansas.

It’s hard to imagine the Italian renaissance without Botticelli; the artist responsible for bringing Spring to life and whose frescoes reside beneath Michelangelo’s in the Sistine Chapel. But for over 300 years one of the most celebrated sons of Florence remained largely unknown. It was the Pre-Raphaelites, in their rejection of academic convention in art and attempt to return to a golden age of painting, who resurrected Botticelli to his modern fame. Today The Birth of Venus and Primavera receive over 1.5 million visitors annually at the Uffizi Gallery. 

While Botticelli has achieved a posthumous fame equal to that of Raphael or Michelangelo much of his life remains in obscurity. One detail that can be confirmed is Botticelli originally apprenticed as a goldsmith with his brother, Antonio. The influence from these early years are a defining component in several of Boticelli’s works. Minute details become transformed into items of fantasy and wonder, and the audience is reminded that they are looking at the other worldly. Goddesses are the ones born in a swirl of shimmering flowers and gilded forests, not you or I. Mary was born a mere mortal, but now she is wholly divine. The Virgin is golden haired, radiant, and draped in fabrics spun with gold; unattainable luxury worthy only for the Queen of Heaven. 

(paintings shown: Madonna of the Book, Birth of Venus, Mary with the Child and Singing Angels, Madonna of the Magnificat, Adoration of the Magi)

The Onion Headlines as Ghibli films

Spirited Away

Princess Mononoke

bonus:

Castle in the Sky

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Howl’s Moving Castle

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Ponyo

The Cat Returns

My Neighbor Totoro 

Porco Rosso

Thomas Jefferson illegal smuggled Italian rice from Italy in 1787 to help boost the American economy by shoving it in his pockets. Just imagine Jerfferson walking as casually as possible with pockets full of rice trying not to get arrested.

She’s so powerful

The House Seen from the Rose Garden 3 1924

Claude Monet

                                    Temples of Knowledge (Series 8)

1. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England 

2. Library from the East, University Club, New York, NY 

3. Queen’s College Library, University of Oxford, England

4. Library of Parliament, Canada

5. Edinburgh Library, Edinburgh, Scotland. 

6. The Theological Hall, Strahov Monastery Library, Prague

7. Marsh’s Library. Dublin, Ireland

8. Stanford White Library, Bronx, New York City

9. Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum Library, Osaka, Japan

10. Biblioteca Civica di Fermo, Fermo, Italy

this is one of those extraordinary exercises in which you see what you hear, and you hear what you see

an everlasting masterpiece