La cueva de la sirena

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omgthatartifact:

Surasundari

India, 900-1000 AD,The Royal Ontario Museum

“The carved stone sculpture shows a torso of a beautiful celestial maiden, or surasundari, who is an entertainer to the gods. Such sculptures adorn many medieval Indian temples both inside and out. This fragment displays a subtly modeled torso with ample breasts and a slender waist. She is adorned with elaborate necklaces and armbands and wears an intricate girdle. She stands in the casually seductive “thrice-bent” pose (tribhanga). Despite being made of stone, the sculpture conveys a lightness of feeling. Her voluptuous body symbolizes abundance and fertility and conveys the markers of idealized feminine beauty often praised in classical poetry. 

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adventures-of-the-blackgang:

A tea trading junk; Chinese School, 19th century; George Chinnery

—National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

judywald:

Nick Bantock

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earlyfrost:

Turkish Saber, c. 19th century

li-an:

large size paintings: Jean-Léon GERÔME Pool in a Harem 1876

regardintemporel:

Gerhard Windisch - Weiblicher Akt in orientalischer Pose, 1920s

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