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femalenudityinwesternpainting: “Dancers And Flutists (Part)” (Mural from the tomb of Nebamun, Luxor, Egypt, now in the British Museum) by Anonymus (c. 1420 - 1375 BC), Ancient Egypt
British Museum: Hokuszai - A nagy hullámon túl (2017) Stílus: dokumentum Nemzet: brit Rendező: Patricia Wheatley Magyar mozibemutató: 2017. október 1. Szerintünk: Dobunk egy Igent, aztán kiderül…
A Cum Painting Art Piece for a Bukkake Museum of Art
60es: Ancient Roman gold bracelet in the form of a coiled snake 1st century AD, Pompeii (The British Museum)
lordofkobol: The British Museum Bronze amulet in the form of a naos; the two sides are decorated with two registers containing above standing and below kneeling winged goddesses wearing the sun-disc and protecting seated mummiform figures of ram-headed
elhieroglyph: “The Gayer-Anderson Cat” is an Ancient Egyptian statue of a cat made out of bronze, f664-332 BC. The British Museum. The statue is a representation of the Cat-Goddess Bastet.
dwellerinthelibrary: Relief from the temple of Beit el-Wali, Lower Nubia. British Museum, London by Hans Ollermann on Flickr. More Nubian animals for Ramesses II in the temple he built for Amun-Re, Ra-Horakhty, Khnum, and Khnum’s consort Anuket.
wtfarthistory: Kawanabe Kyōsai, Comic Shunga Painting, c 1871-1889, ink and color on paper. Isabel Goldman collection, on view at The British Museum until 5 February 2014
Hoa Hakananai The moai named (Stolen or Hidden Friend) …hidden in the British Museum in Plain site … From Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Polynesia, around AD 1000
ancientpeoples: Statue of an Acrobat on a Crocodile 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD Roman (Source: The British Museum)
peira: peril: Roelant Savery: Edward’s Dodo (1626) oil on canvas, The British Museum, London La storia dell'estinzione del Dodo è raccontata da Thomas Pynchon in V.
todayinhistory: January 15th 1759: British Museum opens On this day in 1759, the British Museum was first opened to the public in London. The museum was based on the collections left to the nation by physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane who intended
theladyintweed: Ancient Greek sculpture, in celebration of the British Museum’s exhibition Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art. The Charioteer of Delphi
nudiarist: Sex sells for British Museum - Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/10572091/Sex-sells-for-British-Museum.html
ancientpeoples: Block statue of Teti, Viceroy of Kush c.1475 BC New Kingdom (Source: The British Museum)
ancient-serpent: Medieval badge of a cat with a mouse in its mouth (British Museum)
collective-history: Roman man penetrating a youth, possibly a slave, middle of the 1st century AD. Found in Bittir, near Jerusalem British Museum
ancientpeoples: Corinthian Type Bronze Helmet 600-550 BC Archaic Greek (Source: The British Museum)
ancientart: The Codex Zouche-Nuttall, pre-Columbian piece of Mixtec writing, currently located at the British Museum, London. Late Postclassic period, from Mexico. It is one of three codices that record the genealogies, alliances and conquests of several
artemisdreaming: Ishiyama Moon - Lady Murasaki, 1889, British Museum - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi . Was that really you?The one I chanced upon,As the moon did take its leaveIn the smallest hoursof the night? ~Murasaki Shikibu
ancientpeoples: Marble head of Philosopher Epikouros 3rd-2nd Century BC (original) Roman copy of a Hellenistic original (Source: The British Museum)
kecobe: Jean Nicolas Laugier (French; 1785–1875) after Louis Hersent (French; 1777–1860)Daphnis et Chloé = Daphnis and Chloe Etching and engraving, on chine collé, 1817 The British Museum, London; © The Trustees of the British Museum
jubilee-helix: ironbloodaika: jubilee-helix: ironbloodaika: ohblaargag: durkin62: theswankyswank: discountkuwaitiincubators: vladbyblog: shako-makko: Iraqi man cries bitterly at the British Museum when he sees his country’s stolen cultural
aziraphale-is-ace: ratliker1917: weird how they call it “the british museum” yet practically none of the items on display are british or have any justifiable reason to be in britain
Anglo-Saxon artifacts found in the Taplow burial mound, Buckinghamshire, England. Now displayed in the British Museum, London.
60es: gold enamelled 17th century mourning-ring in the shape of two skeletons supporting a coffin, UK (The British Museum)
marmarinos:Detail of an ancient Roman bust of Antinous, perhaps as Dionysus, dated to the 2nd century CE. Marble. Currently located in the British Museum.
didoofcarthage: Details from a marble portrait bust of a woman, possibly the younger Antonia Roman, Julio-Claudian Period, c. 40-50 A.D. British Museum
tastefullyoffensive: Face-Swapping at the British Museum. (by Jake Marshall)
ancientpeoples: Necklace 650-600 BC Found at the temple of Artemis (Source: The British Museum)
ancientpeoples: Fragment of an Amphora c.530 BC East Greek/Archaic Greek (Source: The British Museum)
ancientpeoples: Corinthian Helmet 600-550 BC Archaic Greek (Source: The British Museum)
clawmarks:A sprig of Apple Blossom with various insects - Anonymous - 18th c. - via The British Museum
George Romney (Dalton in Furness 1734 - Kendal 1802); Jane Dawkes Robinson, c. 1778; oil on canvas; Indianapolis Museum of Art
David Bomberg (Birmingham 1890 - London 1957); Bideford - Devon, 1946; oil on canvas, 71 x 65 cm; Royal Albert Memorial Museum
thegetty: In 1854 the British Museum hired Roger Fenton to test the newfangled medium of photography to document its collection, rather than the usual modes of drawings and engravings. Fenton was at it for seven and a half years. This heavy-footed
John Singer Sargent (Firenze 1856 - London 1925; Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, 1885; oil on canvas, 62.2 x 52.1 cm; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentoville (Arkansas)
lionofchaeronea:Bellerophon, astride Pegasus, attacks the Chimera. Molded medallion from an Apulian terracotta flask, artist unknown; ca. 300-250 BCE. Now in the British Museum.
antifamutantdown:She starts with the British Museum specifically.
badjokesbyjeff: The only reason there are pyramids in Egyptis because they are too heavy to be carried to the British Museum
deathandmysticism: Memento Mori with a skull, slightly to right, surrounded by three empty scrolls atop a hillock with a coffin on a bier below, British Museum, early 16th century
devil-bat: I found this in the money exhibition at the British Museum The more you know huh
erosandthedevil: Elliott Erwitt: The British Museum (London), 1995.
silk101: celebsofcolor: Robert Pattinson and FKA Twigs attend the Lost City of Z UK Premiere at the British Museum, London. this is so cute
ancientpeoples: Colossal Foot 1st - 2nd Century AD Roman Imperial (Source: The British Museum)
ancientpeoples: Bronze statue of the satyr Marsyas, portrayed making the fateful decision to pick up and play the pipes discarded by the goddess Athena. Roman 50 BC- 50 AD Source: British Museum
ancientpeoples: Terracotta relief plaque (‘Melian relief’) with Perseus holding Medusa’s severed head. From her neck springs a naked child, Chrysaor Classical Greek c.490-470 BC Found: Melos Source: British Museum
hismarmorealcalm: Charles Townley Sculptures British Museum
hismarmorealcalm: Portrait of a North African Man 300 – 150 B.C. Found in Cyrene, Libya. Bronze and bone The British Museum
britishmuseum: For #AprilFools today, here are some interesting (and true!) stories about the Museum.This is Mike the cat, who assisted in keeping the Main Gate at the British Museum from Feb 1909 to Jan 1929. When he died, the former Keeper of Egyptian
Hans Thoma (German; 1839–1924) Violinist Playing in a Moonlit Garden Lithograph printed in colours with highlights in silver, ca.1900 The British Museum, London; © The Trustees of the British Museum
Harry Ellis Wooldridge (British; 1845–1917) Apollo Tending the Flocks of ArtemisWatercolor, n.d.The British Museum, London; © The Trustees of the British Museum
elhieroglyph: I took this picture a couple of years ago at the British Museum. | #elhieroglyph #AncientEgypt 🐪 (at British Museum)
British Museum - Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art
kecobe:Cupid Restraining the Enraged Mars (study for a lost painting)Guercino (Italian; 1591–1666)ca. 1640Pen and brown inkThe British Museum, London | © Trustees of the British Museum
marmarinos:Augustus in profile. Detail of a bust of Augustus currently located in the British Museum, possibly dated to the reign of Tiberius. Source: British Museum.
museum-of-artifacts: The Ribchester Helmet is a Roman bronze ceremonial helmet dating to between the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD, which is now on display at the British Museum. It was found in Ribchester, Lancashire, England in 1796, as part
rosematafeo:“That’s why the British museum is so busy all the time. No British people ever go in there, it’s full of people from abroad looking at their own stuff.”
