Ancient Seas

Daily photos of all things related to the sea.
Myths ⚓️ Ships ⚓️ Sailors
⚓️Sea Creatures ⚓️Pirates⚓️Marine Art
#WateryFolklore

[Classical Mythology @ClassicalMyths]

"Breaking off the peak of a huge crag he threw it toward our ship..."

"Odysseus and Polyphemus" (1896) by Swiss symbolist artist, Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901). Oil and tempera on panel. Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Photo: Sotheby's.

[Ancient Seas @AncientSeas]

La Divinité de la Mer by Georges Antoine Rochegrosse. 1897.

[Classical Mythology @ClassicalMyths]

"And from there she floated on to the island of Kypros. There she came ashore, an awesome, beautiful divinity." - Hesiod

"The Birth of Venus" (1482-1485) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. Photo via Wikipedia.

[Aelith Loves Art𖣂 @aelith4ever]

The North Sea, by Patrick von Kalckreuth

[Classical Mythology @ClassicalMyths]

"Poseidon and Amphitrite"(ca. 1913) by Australian artist, Rupert Bunny (1864-1947). Oil on canvas, 80.5 x 95.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia.

[Enchanted Booklet @dreamerbook]

'The Flame-Flower' by Phyllis Saunders illustrated by Hilda T. Miller, 1922.

#illustration #fairytale

[Museum @DailyClassicArt]

William Trost Richards - "Sunlit Waves" (1903)

[Historium Unearthia @HistoriumU]

The Little Mermaid in its original form is not a love story—it’s a story of betrayal layered in sacrifice. She gives up her voice, her identity, her world. And the prince marries another. Andersen’s tale doesn’t end in happily-ever-after—it ends in seafoam and sorrow. #BookWormSat

🎨Heather Edwards

[MBA Library @thenmbluk]

We missed #NationalUnicornDay yesterday, so here's an illustration from Cuvier's De l'histoire naturelle des cetaces (1836) of the 'unicorn of the sea' - the narwhal! Both volumes of this work (text & atlas) can be found in the rare books room in the library @thembauk 🦄🐋

[Wilhelm Gustloff @WilhelmGustloff]

Carl Ludvig Locher
Das Feuerschiff von Skagen Reef
1892

[𝕰𝖑𝖊𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖗𝖊 @elemmiressoul]

gloomy.

[ZSL Library @ZSLLibrary]

For #WorldOysterDay - thorny oysters, Lazarus jewel boxes and ark shell, all bivalve marine molluscs. These were found in the West Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific. Illustrated in Albertus Seba's 'Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri', published 1734-65. #sciart

[The Long Victorian @longvictorian2]

Sailing Ship On The High Seas Under Moonlight (1840) by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900).

'I looked on the heavens, which were covered by clouds that flew before the wind .. I looked upon the sea; it was to be my grave.' - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.

[Ancient Seas @AncientSeas]

Glittering Sea by Yoshida Hiroshi. 1926. Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

[Art History Animalia @ArtHistAnimalia]

#WorldReefDay: Plates I-II-III from Ernst Haeckel's Arabische Korallen (1875).
The entire publication (with additional illustrations) has been digitized by @mayrlibrary and can be viewed via @BioDivLibrary here: https://t.co/oUj8n2rwgi

[Annie Brassey @AnnieBrassey]

Bexhill's Atlantis. According to John Speed's 1610 #map of Sussex there was once an #Island in the sea between #Bexhill & Hastings. As he shows Pebsham on the wrong side of Hastings it could be bad #cartography, but our cliffs would have gone further out to sea? #FolkloreThursday