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[TODAY'S PICK 🇫🇷] Today let's dance like Ivan Vasiliev an Natalia Osipova in Alexei Ratmansky's #FlamesOfParis! 💪

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The palace aesthetics from Walt Disney’s animated classic feature Cinderella (1950) are pure magic and art 🏰✨

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Painting by Frank Frazetta

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How does someone look at a block of stone and end up with THIS? It blows my mind!

Massive, theatrical, and carved from a single block of marble.

And yeah, the cliché 'carved from a single block of marble' is 100% earned here. This sculpture is about 3.7 meters tall and has nine figures packed into one insane composition.

So, wow. Imagine taking one raw block and ending up with this.

Before I get into who the figures are, let me say this first. The Farnese Bull is one of the most spectacular sculptures ever recovered from antiquity. Like truly!!

It is a Roman copy from the Severan period, around AD 222 to 235, based on a lost Hellenistic masterpiece by the Rhodian sculptors Apollonius and Tauriscus.

And honestly — damn, the ancient Greeks were something else. It’s a tragedy that so much of their genius vanished, but thankfully the Romans copied enough for us to still witness the grandeur of their imagination.

In my opinion, they’ll never be surpassed. The leap they brought to art is unmatched, and I’ll die on that hill.

Back to the sculpture.

It shows the myth of Dirce, punished by the twins Amphion and Zethus for tormenting their mother, Antiope. They are tying Dirce to a raging bull, the exact second before everything explodes.

The whole composition is insanely dynamic: twisting bodies, straining muscles, flying drapery. It’s late Hellenistic theatricality at its peak.

It is basically Baroque before the Baroque even existed. Centuries before Bernini and the rest. Violent diagonals, spirals, emotional overload, a scene frozen at maximum intensity.

Baroque sculptors made pieces meant to be walked around.

The Farnese Bull does that almost two thousand years earlier. No front, no back, just a full 360-degree storm of figures.

It really is Baroque before Baroque was even a thing.

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Drafts by Leonardo da Vinci

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Apollo and Daphne, Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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😍 Amazing! Sylvie Guillem 😱

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Lord Hermes

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Despair
By Jean-Joseph Perraud

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Details

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Can a single city have more?

• Michelangelo's David
• Botticelli's Birth of Venus
• The Uffizi Gallery
• Cellini's Perseus
• Brunelleschi's Dome
• Giotto's Bell Tower
• Ponte Vecchio
• Palazzo Vecchio
• The Medici Chapels
• Santa Croce
• Piazza della Signoria
• Santa Maria Novella
• Donatello's Judith and Holofernes
• Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
• The Baptistery of Florence
• Galileo's tomb
• Machiavelli's tomb
• The Laurentian Library
• The Pitti Palace
• The Accademia Gallery
• ...

Save this post. Florence has been waiting 500 years. It can wait a few more months for your visit.

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The video features a remarkable artistic excerpt from the classic Romantic ballet Giselle by The Royal Ballet, capturing Giselle's radiant and blissful moments in Act I before love's tragedy unfolds.

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vivien leigh as titania in shakespeare's a midsummer night's dream, 1937

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Some feelings only art can hold..