Wonderful ancient artistry!
Some 3,400 years ago, an Egyptian artisan captured a sense of speed and elegance in this beautifully carved whip handle in the shape of a horse!
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III, c. 1390–1352 BC.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
1800 year old Roman sculpture, showing a baby holding a puppy and the mother dog gently touching the baby asking for her baby back.
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was born on this day in 1853 in Zandert, The Netherlands.
A year after he had moved to Paris, Van Gogh painted this view featuring the popular Restaurant de la Sirène at Asnières.
”Because it is the day of Palms,
Carry a palm for me,
Carry a palm in Santa Chiara,
And I will watch the sea…”
Palm Sunday, Arthur Symons
Entry into Jerusalem, Fresco c. 1320 by Pietro Lorenzetti, San Francesco, Assisi #PalmSunday
Plaque with hawk (Late Period - Hellenistic Period (400-30 BCE))
Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
Edvard Munch
"The Seine" 1890
Sunday afternoon by the Seine
Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte
Neo-Impressionist masterpiece: monumental work painted 1884-86 by Georges Seurat, leader of pointillism, died #OTD 1891.
Art Institute of Chicago
#StandingStoneSunday
Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC.
📸My own #History
A stunning recreation of the bronze helmet found in a prehistoric grave in North Bersted West #Sussex
On display in the #Novium Museum #Chichester
Customised with two crescentic openwork crests, this was undoubtedly one of the blingiest hats in the British Iron Age
📷 March 2026
#FindsFriday
Alison Fisk
John Shirley
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Dr Anna Clark
Dr Anna Clark
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Jon Hawke
Durotriges Dig
This may look like a boiled sweet but it’ll bust your tooth. It’s actually a beautiful Minoan cornelian seal. It depicts a man driving a two-horse chariot, grasping the reins in his left hand and flicking his whip with the other.
🕰️ 1450-1300 BC
🏛️ British Museum
📷 my own
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
