Tag: renaissance

  • God of the Seas

    Poseidon, Neptune for the Romans, was god of the seas. Often depicted emerging from the waters with his curly hair still wet, as seen in this ancient sculpture found in the river Rhodanus.

  • Humana Pietas

    Of all the Michelangelo’s masterpieces, this Pietà is the one I love most. It is an unfinished work (Michelangelo died before completing it) but to my eyes it is perfect, as it truly represents the human state of being in this world with our incompleteness, imperfections, distortions, imbalances. For this very reason deserving no less…