The School of Athens

 in Italian, is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artistRaphael. It was painted between 1510 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The Stanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School of Athens the second painting to be finished there, after La Disputa, on the opposite wall. The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance. Located at Apostolic Palace, Vatican City

Paradiso

by

Yoko Kanno

Sapphire Gem

The Tachi

With a few exceptions katana and tachi can be distinguished from each other if signed, by the location of the signature (mei) on the tang(nakago). In general the mei should carved into the side of the nakago that would face outward when the sword was worn. Since a tachi was worn cutting edge down, and the katana was worn cutting edge up the mei would be in opposite locations on the nakago of both types of swords.^[1]

The Great Wave

is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. An example of ukiyo-e art, it was published sometime between 1830 and 1833^[2] (during the Edo Period) as the first in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei (富嶽三十六景^?)), and is his most famous work.Original impressions of the 'Great Wave' print are today in the collections of major museums or in private collections. Every now and then an original copy is popping up in the market. But they are really rare, and those that are available are often not in very good condition.

Last Supper

is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supperfrom the final days of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him. measures 450 × 870 centimeters (15 feet × 29 ft) and covers an end wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

Rubys

Carmina Burana

by

Carl Orff

Tamerlane and Other Poems

 first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 copies of the collection still exist.

The death mask really is a magnificent no knowledge of the finer points of Egyptian antiquities.   Made of solid gold and inlaid with semi-precious stones, it weighs 11 kilograms. Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c.1333 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. 

Mask of Tutankhamun's mummy, the popular icon for ancient Egypt at The Egyptian Museum.

Nighthawks

a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is considered Hopper's most famous painting, as well as one of the most recognizable in American art

Statue of David

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Michelangelo

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 foot)^[1] marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.

Luv(sic) Part 4

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Nujabes feat. Shing02

Barroom Dancing 1820

Sketch associated with 1819 oil painting Country frolic and dance, oil on canvas. This drawing more nearly resembles the print Dance in a country tavern lithographed by George Lehman, ca. 1835-36.  Date from almanac hanging on wall.

The Portland Vase

The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, currently dated to between AD 5 and AD 25,^[1] which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.

The vase is about 25 centimeters high and 56 in circumference. It is made of violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass cameo depicting seven figures 

it is currently at the British Museum 

Diamonds

Nefertiti Bust

Nefertiti (ca. 1370 BC – ca. 1330 BC) was the Great Royal Wife(chief consort) of theEgyptian PharaohAkhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only. This wasAten, or the sun disc.

She was made famous by her bust, now in Berlin's Neues Museum

Symphony #40 in G Minor, K 550 - 1. Molto Allegro

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Mozart 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV. 550, in 1788. It is sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony," to distinguish it from the "Little G minor symphony," No. 25. The two are the only minor key symphonies Mozart wrote.

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with traces of watercolor and pastel over pen-and-ink drawing on cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas
There are three very similar versions of this composition. The largest, painted in grisaille (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), was shown in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. The two other works, tentatively dated to the same year, are in the Metropolitan's collection

Gold coins

Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa (also known asLa Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo) is a portrait by the Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplarpanel, completed circa 1503-1519. It is on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris

The Mona Lisa painting now hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

Very much of value to me

Di Blai: July 1, 1989
A beautiful tormented soul with lots of self-doubt,
hopelessness, & depression.
One thing that makes her so beautiful is that her
depression comes from a drive to live a normal life.
She pushes forward through a life that takes her
beyond her limits everyday. She is truly an inspiration
of strength. Someone that is under appreciated but
humble. She takes her beauty in modesty almost
completely unaware and/or neglecting the fact that
she is and can be as pretty as people tell her. Her
innocence is child-like and she is complex in the
simplest way. There are many thing to be admired
about her.She is a one of a kind, priceless, A
real diamond in the rough,