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happyprimate · 9 months

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~ Treasure of Boscoreale: Goblet with Skeletons

Date: 25 B.C-A.D. 50

Period: Imperial Period

Culture: Roman

Place of origin: Italy, Boscoreale (Villa de la Pisanella)

Medium: Silver

#art #art history #history

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happyprimate · 1 year

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Etruscan (from Vulci, Lazio, Italy), Sarcophagus Lid with a Husband and Wife, ca. 350-300 BCE, travertine (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

#art history #art #history #etruscan #ancient culture

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happyprimate · 1 year

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I’d add some andalusian/spanish medieval ones and also sephardic ones (can be into the jewish section-or in the general spanish-andalusian medieval) without particular distinction :

-Oh The Moorish Queen Who Was Christian Before, Wants a Slave, Let’s Get Her Pregnant Sister, Kill Her Husband And Exchange Children.

-Mom, I’ve Dreamed Something Beautiful. Daughter, You’re Prophetising Your Future Incestuous Marriage With Your Brother and His Death.

-Oh This Boy Has a Fixation With a Misterious Girl And He Is Jealous Of The River. Girl’s Drowns In The River. Boy Was Right All Along (Matarile-rile-rile-ró).

-My Boyfriend Is a Crockery Painter, That’s it.

-I’m a Prostitute And I’m Transfixed By Green Eyes of a Client Who’s Gonna Stay With Me One (1) Night. He’s The Most Unromantic Person, He’ Just Want to Give Me a Dress.

-Seven (F*cking Delicious) Ways to Cook the Eggplant.

- Tarara Is an Excentric Girl With a Pimple In The Ass. It’s a Major Event For The Community To Go To See It Burst, so Come and Take a Seat.

-This Man is Giving Water to His Horse and SIngs, Mum, I Think I Love Him. Ok, I’ll Kill You Both. God Transforms Them into Plants. Mum Kill Them Again. God Transforms Them into Animals. Mum Kills Them Again. God Transforms Them into Poisonous Waters. Mum Gets a Bath and Dies.

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever

#folk music #folklore #spain #spanish #andalucía #sephardic #medieval ages

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happyprimate · 1 year

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Incredible. They're so close to getting it.

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happyprimate · 1 year

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#flowers

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happyprimate · 3 years

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#The Mummy II #we all know #gay detector #Rachel weisz #patricia velasquez

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happyprimate · 3 years

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In honor of me approaching my first 6 months mark as a flight attendant, here are some highlights from my time in this job:

When a lady stopped me gently to whisper that i had “mastered the art of kindness”

When an elderly woman told me i was “put on earth to be a flight attendant”

Each and every time someone complimented my nails

When i found an $8000 diamond watch left behind under a seat, gave it to a gate agent, only to have the passenger come running back 10 minutes later. Gate agent: man u wouldve been in trouble, huh? Man whom looked like a bond villain: i wouldve been SHOT.

Every lesbian ive worked with and had the nice bonding moment of “ur gay?? Im gay!!”

That time a man tried to get huffy with me because he wasnt in 1st class and i got to say “sir u can either sit in this seat or u can sit in a seat in the terminal while u wait to take the next flight”

When i had an emergency landing because the pilots lost steering and we all thought we were gonna die but then we didn’t and everyone just applauded the landing and didnt even complain about the 2 hour delay

When my flight was delayed for 3 hours because the plane wouldnt start so the crew and i just took a really long nap in the jetway

Every 4 and 5 star hotel ive stayed at for free

When we overnighted in the middle of nowhere in alabama and went to a sports bar at midnight. The bartender locked the door so it was just him and us and his friend, and we all got super drunk on obscure alcohols and i kicked everyones ass at pool

That time i had an emergency landing because one pilot had such explosive diarrhea that the other 2 pilots had to wear oxygen masks

When we overnighted in a casino resort in new orleans and ended up drunk on margaritas and playing blackjack with a bunch of old people at 2pm

Every little kid on my flights

Every dog i got to pet on my flights

When we were flying to nyc during julliard recruitments and half the seats were taken up by cellos

Being in airports late at night and seeing people sleep in the weirdest places because they just dont care (bathroom floors, under gate agent desks, etc)

When a woman forgot her actual baby on the plane

Woman: can i board first? Gate agent: are u special needs, active military or priority? Woman: no i just want to board first. Gate agent: maam i have 70 other people who also want to board first, im not looking for a line leader.

My very first working flight, when a man pointed to my necklace and said “is that a ball gag?” And, in my shock, i said “no, im gay”

#this #i love this #this is gold #you rock #lovely

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happyprimate · 3 years

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Me, culturally catholic, walking into a protestant church without very much images and golden stuff: OKAY WHERE’S THE DRAMA?

Me, Catholic, walking into a Protestant church with no depictions of Mary: where’s my mom

#humour

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happyprimate · 3 years

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A woman is drying incense sticks, a process in making incense. Vietnamese believe that incense is a tool to connect the living with the spirits. When people burn incense, they can talk to spirits and pray.

#photography #art #vietnam #incense

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happyprimate · 3 years

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Guerlain Abeille bottle.

#art #art history #guerlain #fashion #fashion history

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happyprimate · 3 years

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Marble. Roman copy after a Hellenistic original of the end of the 3rd cent. BCE (restored with head of modern work). Inv. No. MC 299.

(vía Drunken old woman. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Gallery.)

This statue it’s the very representation of decadence. The “drunken old women” became a popular character in comical plays: She was a prostitute, matchmaker, witch and drunkard. This made her a perfect comical character. But what we see here is not comical at all. From a modern perspective, it’s a tragic situation: She is a beggar, almost naked, drinking on the streets while hugging a huge wine bottle. But seen with more caution, that bottle is ridiculously huge and its decoration is so exquisite it could cost lots of money, her hair is combed with care and kept behind a bandana-like fabric , her feet still have their sandals…there’s overall a sensation of strangeness, who is she? why is she drinking? is she a beggar?

Well, we’ll never know. I don’t think the author were trying to make a portrait of a commoner old lady. Sure, beggars old women with alcoholic problems existed in ancient times, but I believe here the author is not taking a real-life personality (even for late-hellenism standards, that would be very avant-garde), the nearest thing they could do is portraying theatrical characters. And that’s what she is: Just a character. Some specialist speak about an “exemplary statue”: This is, a statue that reflects the consecuences of bad habits. Others speak about a “cruelty treatment of indigence”, like an old woman who is sculpted just to laugh at. I don’t agree: Being a character comical in its nature, the statue is just a representation of a non-existent thing. Even more, if we can agree, the author’s naturalistic treatment “humanizes” the character so much it makes us believe could have been a real person. There’s not cruelty but a deep humanization of a “comical cliché character” as it was in the ancient world.

#art #theory #history of art #hellenistic #hellenism #ancient culture #drunk old woman

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happyprimate · 3 years

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I think sometimes tumblr needs to stop spreading this kind of shitty reasoning without proof. We know Jesus WAS NOT WHITE but ethnically semite, but making fake assertions because hey yes, it’s misinformation at it finest...Like, the reason Jesus is white it’s just because he is usually depicted as the majority ethnic group since medieval ages, not thanks to a renaissance prince. You can see Pantocrators and christian art since 1000 A.D. depicting him as a white common man. Just need to make a bit of researching, guys...

Also, Santa Claus comes from the story of St. Nicholas of Bari, who was born in Turkey, so he could OR couldn’t be “white” (whatever this means to americans, cause the conception of “whiteness” it’s not a thing in europe-like italians, spanish and greeks are as white as germans or english- and that’s what annoys me cause Cesare Borgia was spanish, so he wasn’t even white for americans standards??). He could also be just...you know, tanned-skinned. Like...mediterranean standard guy. Sometimes I just hate tumblr cause american activism (mediterranean people= non-white).