Makes me wonder why guns today aren’t as ornate as they were 2 centuries ago. This is a Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver I spotted at the MET. I think I was at the Arms and Armor section of the museum when I spotted this beauty. There’s a lot of craftsmanship and effort put […]
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Isis of Dendur
I suppose anyone who sees this picture would’ve thought I had taken this somewhere in Egypt. Well… Actually I took this at the Met during my grad trip in NYC. The Met has got to be my favorite museum in the entire world, second on the list is definitely Albright-Knox. 🙂 What about the Louvre? […]
A glazed terracotta sculpture by Andrea Della Robbia made approximately during the period of 1470-1475.
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Self-Portrait With A Straw Hat
This is Vincent’s van Gogh’s Self-portrait With A Straw Hat, otherwise known as The Potato Peeler (1887). He’s done a lot of self portraits, so this is just 1 of the 27 portraits he did. I’m not a fan of pointilism and really dreaded having to attempt pointilism during art class back in secondary school. […]