Inside of Library (Image: ArtStation/Raphaelle Deslandes)

Artist's depiction of what the Library of Alexandria looked like

Art History Gallery on Instagram: "Thomas Cole (1801-1848): Destruction - The Course of Empire, 1836, oil on canvas, 100.3 x 161.2 cm, New York Historical Society, New York . . The fourth painting of 'The Course of Empire' series, Destruction, has almost the same perspective as the third, though the artist has stepped back a bit to allow a wider scene of the action, and moved almost to the center of the river. The action is the sack and destruction of the city, in the course of a tempest…

I have been working on this concept for a hard surface assignment. Starscream is one of my favorite transformer. So, I changed the Jet model (XA-20 Razorback) and made a new version of it.

Few people in the ancient world could read or write. Even many kings and emperors needed to employ special scribes to make records of their orders and achievements. Unsurprisingly, then, libraries were few on the ground. But those libraries that did exist were often magnificent. Rulers used them to showcase…

The life and murder of ancient scholar Hypatia of Alexandria #OmniumGatherum https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/05/10/the-life-and-murder-of-ancient-scholar-hypatia-of-alexandria/