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💬🌳🏛🖼️📜 Quotes, nature, architecture, art and history about our homeland, Europe.
"Dream Idyll A Valkyrie", Edward Robert Hughes, c. 1902.
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Saint Martial festivities in Irun, Basque Country, Spain. 1973.
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"Fight between Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych", by Viktor Mikhailovich (1918)
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To be European today is to bring to life in one's flesh and soul the pagan, Greco-Latin and then Christian past of our history.
Through the glorious figures of the past, let us give our children the spiritual weapons that will make them the heroes of tomorrow.
"The shrine to Saint Helena" in Basilica di San Pietro, Vatican City.
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Franz Stassen in front of one of the four tapestry designs intended for the assembly hall of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. 1936
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Roman gold signet ring engeaved with the deity Victory
Found by amateur metal detectorist Jason Massey on location in Crewkerne in the County of Somerset.
The ring is a large piece of jewelry and was almost certainly worn by a male. Because it was made of gold it was probably worn by a Romano-Briton of high status.
The Ludovisi Gaul (Galatian Suicide), 2nd Century BC
The Ludovisi Gaul is an ancient Roman statue depicting a Gallic man plunging a sword into his breast as he holds up the dying body of his wife. This sculpture is a marble copy of a now lost Greek bronze original.
📸 Palazzo Altemps, National Museum of Rome, Italy
Head of Athena, found in Tel Naharon (northern Beth Shean), 2nd century AD
Athena (the Roman Minerva) was the daughter of Zeus, king of the gods. She was the goddess of wisdom and the art of warfare, patroness of heroes, artists, and the arts. She is usually depicted helmet-clad and armed with a spear and shield. Of this statue, which originally rose to 2.5 meters, only the head has survived. Traces of paint indicate that it was originally brightly painted. The contrast between the smooth face and rough hair are typical of the style of the 2nd century CE.
Nymph with Child and Infant Faun by Jules Visseaux (1900-20)
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New frescos have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The frescos depict Greek mythology: Paris kidnaps Helen which triggers the Trojan War
Mythical Greek figures such as Helen of Troy are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall.
The room's near-complete mosaic floor incorporates more than a million individual white tiles.
"[...] that is why we are anti-Marxists, we are anti-Marxists because we are horrified, like every Westerner, every Christian, every European boss or proletarian, is horrified of being like an inferior animal in an anthill."
— José Antonio Primo de Rivera
"Der Hauptbahnhof". Hamburg main station, Germany 1930s.
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Franz Stassen, (German 1869-1949), Ex libris Protection of German Intellectual Property, 1915
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Bone Saddle from Bohemia (Central Europe) c.1400-1420 CE.
This is one of about twenty known Medieval saddles decorated with bone plaques. The saddles vary somewhat in decoration, but certain motifs are common throughout. For instance, Saint George, standing over the defeated dragon, appears with elegant couples on most of the saddles. Used in parade, they were probably more ceremonial than utilitarian.
The bone plaques used to create the saddle, probably from the pelvic bones of large animals such as cows, are attached to the core with bone pins and glue. The underside is lined with hide and birch bark.
📸 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The kiss of peace", 1869 - by Julia Margaret Cameron, English.
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“Who on Earth is so careless or lazy that he would not wish to learn how and under what form of government almost all of the inhabited world was conquered and became subject to the rule of Rome in less than 53 years.”
—Polybius, Histories 1.1.5
Victoria Memorial at Buckingham Palace, London, England.
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"Death of Sappho" — Miguel Carbonell Selva, 1881.
The story about the fatal leap of Sappho into the sea at a headland named Leukas, which means ‘White Rock’, is best known today from a version that we read in a collection of elegiac poems by Ovid about female heroes, the Heroides.
This version is Heroides 15, which fictionalizes a plaintive letter written by a lovesick Sappho before she takes her fatal leap. Her letter is addressed to a beautiful young male lover named Phaon, whom she tearfully reproaches for having abandoned her and having voyaged off to parts West.
“In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman...”
— Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West.
Colossal marble bust of Zeus. Roman. 130-150 (circa). From Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli), Italy, Lazio.
📸 The British Museum, London.
Saint James Church (St. Jakov) Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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"Farewell dear France", by Eugène François Joseph Siberdt
Mary Queen of Scots departs France
Roman Facet-Cut Blue Glass Hanging Bowl with Female Heads, 1st Half of the 4th Century AD
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