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  1. 🟢 WATCH: Human #eyes naturally perceive fine variations in #green, prompting artists throughout #history to seek vivid, durable shades.

    In #Getty's Becoming Artsy series, host Jessie Hendricks investigates historical #artworks to explain how painters turned to #minerals, tree #resin, and toxic #arsenic to produce green #paint.

    👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/green-painting

    #ancientgreece #greexe #art #arthistory #history #museums #books #chemistry #color #conservation #copper #geology #paper #renaissance #rocks #science #tksst #video

  2. Is it just a coincidence that in both the Ancient Greek music notational system and in the medieval hexachordal system the lowest note corresponds to our modern low G? #musictheory #musicology #music #history #musicHistory #ancientGreece #grecoroman #medieval

  3. fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Luci

    In Greek mythology, King Ixion was spared punishment by Zeus, but took advantage by trying to seduce his wife Hera, and was punished by being tied to a burning rotating wheel in the underworld for eternity.

    The picture here is scanned from the 1882 book Lucile, by Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, in which it’s referenced as a reminder, a caution against illicit love.

    #vintageArt #GreekMyth #ancientGreece #nakedMan #torture #wheel #snakes #fobo #GIMP #xsane

  4. fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Luci

    In Greek mythology, King Ixion was spared punishment by Zeus, but took advantage by trying to seduce his wife Hera, and was punished by being tied to a burning rotating wheel in the underworld for eternity.

    The picture here is scanned from the 1882 book Lucile, by Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, in which it’s referenced as a reminder, a caution against illicit love.

    #vintageArt #GreekMyth #ancientGreece #nakedMan #torture #wheel #snakes #fobo #GIMP #xsane

  5. fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Luci

    In Greek mythology, King Ixion was spared punishment by Zeus, but took advantage by trying to seduce his wife Hera, and was punished by being tied to a burning rotating wheel in the underworld for eternity.

    The picture here is scanned from the 1882 book Lucile, by Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, in which it’s referenced as a reminder, a caution against illicit love.

    #vintageArt #GreekMyth #ancientGreece #nakedMan #torture #wheel #snakes #fobo #GIMP #xsane

  6. fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Luci

    In Greek mythology, King Ixion was spared punishment by Zeus, but took advantage by trying to seduce his wife Hera, and was punished by being tied to a burning rotating wheel in the underworld for eternity.

    The picture here is scanned from the 1882 book Lucile, by Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, in which it’s referenced as a reminder, a caution against illicit love.

    #vintageArt #GreekMyth #ancientGreece #nakedMan #torture #wheel #snakes #fobo #GIMP #xsane

  7. fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Luci

    In Greek mythology, King Ixion was spared punishment by Zeus, but took advantage by trying to seduce his wife Hera, and was punished by being tied to a burning rotating wheel in the underworld for eternity.

    The picture here is scanned from the 1882 book Lucile, by Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, in which it’s referenced as a reminder, a caution against illicit love.

    #vintageArt #GreekMyth #ancientGreece #nakedMan #torture #wheel #snakes #fobo #GIMP #xsane