Art Without Concept

The other Girl with the Pearl Earring. Not quite as charming.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Water, 1566

Oil on alder wood

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Meticulously curved and composed.

The Fall of Icarus, made in Italy in the late sixteenth century. A cameo (agate, onyx) with a gold frame. 2.7 x 2.4cm (a square inch). Some of the waves are less than 1mm.

Check out Angelica Kauffmann, Portrait of Albinia Brodrick, Viscountess Midleton (1770s), From Babst Gallery

Bonn RLM - roman mosaic with sol invictus in quadriga, surrounded by 12 signs of zodiac 5es - Foto by J. Vogel, RLM Bonn. by Peter