We have a cooking thread, a beer thread and a thread for everything else but we don't have an art thread and as we saw in the brief art excursion in the Feminist thread (theres a couple of those too) some BoLSers know something about art. Others can't seem to tell the difference between naked men and women and are to be pitied.

So, post whatever art you like. No restrictions. Except perhaps conceptual art because if you want to look at glasses of water an unmade bed you can probably do that in the comfort of your own home without taking up bandwidth...

Some of my absolute favourites:

Venus Callipyge/Aphrodite Kallipygos (National Museum, Naples)

(Kallipygos translates as 'beautiful buttocks'). The head and shoulders are modern restorations. fun fact:Kallipygos was one of my nicknames at university, showing that even our male best and brightest are sexist pigs)

Winged Victory of Samothrace (Louvre)


The Blinding of Polyphemus (Sperlonga museum, Italy)

(those little figures are life size, the thing is huge. Illustrates a scene from the Odyssey where Odysseus blinds the cyclops)

Girl with Unicorn, Raphael (Galleria Borghese, Rome)

(jumping forward a bit in time, this painting possibly depicts Guilia Farnese, mistress of Pope Alexander VI)