#ancientgreece — Public Fediverse posts

🟢 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: https://seethis.tv/post/green-painting-dangerous-color-getty-video

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

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

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/215-wheel-of-ixion/

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

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/215-wheel-of-ixion/

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

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/215-wheel-of-ixion/

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

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/215-wheel-of-ixion/

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

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/215-wheel-of-ixion/

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