C’mon guys, he was in the pool.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti 

Bacchus, ca. 1496-7

Ariadne’s seen bigger.

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Guido Reni

Bacchus and Ariadne, ca. 1619-1620

(Source: collections.lacma.org)

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Jean-Baptiste Tuby

Diana with a Stag and a Dog, 1687

(Source: collections.lacma.org)

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Glass art is something that doesn’t get talked about as much as it should in art history.

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Unknown Venetian artist

Diana and Actaeon, ca. 1690-1720

Corning Museum of Glass

Might as well have something to go with the dead chicken.

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Maurizio Cattelan

Untitled, 2009

Stefano Maderno, The Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, 1599-1600

Kehinde Wiley, The Virgin Martyr St. Cecilia, 2008

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hey guys

that is carved

 from MARBLE

THAT IS A ROCK

WAT

I have no idea how the artist manages to make it looks like not just cloth, but TRANSPARENT cloth. Amazing.

Hey Guys this is a sculpture of a Vestal Virgin, carved during the roman empire. its my favorite and is pretty fucking awesome. 

Blown away

I had the same reaction when I saw this motherfucker in the Louvre

I walked around that hunk of orgasm rock for a good ten minutes trying to figure out HOW.

b-but that’s not how rocks work???!!?

FUCKING BERNINI THO

FUCKING

BERNINI

DID SOMEONE SAY BERNINI? HERE’S BERNINI SCULPTING A FAT CARDINAL.

HERE’S A SELF-PORTRAIT. HE’S A DAMNED SOUL IN HELL, HE BURNED HIS HAND AND SCREAMED IN FRONT OF A MIRROR FOR REFERENCE BECAUSE FUCK EVERYTHING.

OH AND LET’S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THOSE GRASPING ORGASM-HANDS

SPEAKING OF ORGASMS HERE’S A NUN MASTURBATING. HE PUT THAT MOTHERFUCKER IN A FUCKING CHAPEL.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE HE PUT IN A CHAPEL? THIS BITCHING PIECE OF MARBLE.

IS THAT AN ANGEL POINTING A GOLDEN ARROW AT THE CROTCH OF A NUN? YOU BET YOUR FACE IT IS! IS SHE HAVING A MIND-BLOWING ANGEL-ORGASM?

OF FUCKING COURSE SHE IS!

BERNINI!

Reblogging because batshit insane sculptors and horny statues are funny.

there was a Bernini thingie when I went to the met and Vox told us about the time a nun flicked an entire classroom off 

BERNINI!

Brilliant

(Source: efedra)

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Gentile da Fabriano

Adoration of the Magi, 1423

Studies after an Figures from an Antique Sarcophagus, n.d.

GOOSE ART TUESDAYS!!!

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Giovanni Andrea Maglioli

Naked Reclining Man Holding a Cornucopia and Accompanied by a Goose, 1580-1610

GOOSE ART TUESDAYS!!!

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Unknown Italian artist

Il Gioco dell’Ocha (The Game of the Goose), 18th century