mydarkenedeyes:

Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)

This work is based on Emily Dickinson in 1862, when she wrote 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in a linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The colour of each candle matches a colour mentioned in the corresponding poem. For the poems in which no colour is mentioned, the candles are made out of natural paraffin.

le-toit:

Oh! Only Bernini can make me look at marble and swear it’s flesh. 

I love art ► Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Ecstasy of St. Theresa (1647–1652)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – Rome, 1680)

renkris:

Scene from King Lear by *aprmason

Oh wow

theaction-packedmentallist:

Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African ancestors thrown overboard.

ladyladyington:

stabletransit:

Pluto e Proserpina (Pluto and Persephone)

By far, my favorite piece of almost all Italian art by my favorite Italian artist, Bernini.  And to think, this was done with marble, 400 years ago, by a man of only 23 years.

I’ll never not reblog this.