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Can we keep talking about ultramarine?

Welcome to the painting I spent a solid 2-3 hours staring at to write a paper about in the same art history course I mentioned in another post:

Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian. I'll try and keep this brief.

Titian is a magnificent artist of the Renaissance era, I consider him to be the sleeper agent of the big name painters at the time. This painting being an excellent example of that as the circumstances of its creation kind of fell into Titian's lap which, in my opinion, was very fortunate for us indeed.

It was commissioned by Alfonso I d'Este the Duke of Ferrara who wanted to beat his sister in an art curation/money spending dick measuring contest. So he built a special little room to put a solid six of these massive paintings and commissioned all the hot shots of the Renaissance to make works depicting different myths. The painting with Bacchus as the subject was meant to be done by Raphael but he died in 1520 only having done sketches. Titian took up the mantle so here we are.

What's immediately noticeable, in person especially, is once again the ultramarine. The sky practically glows it is absolutely breathtaking. But then your eye travels down to the cacophony that is the rest of the painting. It is filled with detail and references, most theorizing this to be deliberate so it could be viewed repeatedly. What's more, the moment the painting depicts is simply beautiful: it is the exact second Bacchus and Ariadne lock eyes for the first time in their lives. It's love at first sight captured in a moment of visceral and raw glory.

Anyways, if this post gets a lot of up votes can I get a flair that says "The Ultra Marine"? Lmfao

u/Miss-This — 4 days ago

▲ 2.0k r/trippinthroughtime

This post is brought to you by one of my niche interests since 2016

Huge shout out to my art history professor and Shakespeare professor in Oxford for my fascination with Richard II and this weird little diptych.

Context (and because this thing is stupid interesting): The Wilton Diptych was created in the late 14th Century almost certainly as a commission by King Richard II. It is distinguished from other diptychs and triptychs of the same style not just because of its excessive use of expensive matierials but in its obscene attention to detail. Its artist is unknown, referred to as "The Wilton Master". It was meant to be used by Richard in his private moments of prayer, so he reflected on the image of himself being blessed in splendor by the Virgin Mother, Christ, and a litany of other holy figures. It's generally agreed that Mary and Jesus are also symbolic representations of his late mother and older brother.

This piece to me is a deceptive beauty. And also quite funny in its context as it shows how insecure he was, which makes sense cus he rose to the throne quite young and never really filled the shoes so to speak. Shakespeare's depiction of him is stellar imo.

u/Miss-This — 5 days ago

▲ 2 r/theydidthemath

[Request] How much would we each get if all currently existing money worldwide was distributed equally?

Had this idea the other day and I'm curious if its possible to calculate. Unfortunately my degrees are more in the creative department so I thought I'd see if anyone here wanted to take a shot.

So: excluding all debts owed by any parties, how much money exists across the entire world and how much would we each get if we could magically distribute an equal portion to each person?

Happy mathing :P

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u/Miss-This — 14 days ago

▲ 3 r/BPD

I was recently diagnosed with Borderline, and it wasn't so much of a revelation as a statement waiting to be said. It seemed as if it was always there, everyone knew it but me and it took the blunt statement for me to acknowledge the obvious.

Of course I say that with part neutrality and part self-loathing. I mean, it's BPD we're talking about here.

All that to say I'm currently writing this, sitting on the couch, coming down from a panic attack induced by my own habitual thoughts. A tale as old as time for me. It's part of the reason I'm shocked I hadn't thought this diagnosis might apply to me sooner. I mean, I know better than anyone all that's occurred in my life. Were I to write it all down the enormity of details would astound me I'm sure.

But to get to the point faster and so I don't go back to chasing the rabbit, I'm gonna tell you about the time the laundry made me sob.

I was living alone in the house I own. I no longer live there, thank the gods, as it harbors many foul memories for me. I moved out of there a few years ago, but for a few months a year or two before that I lived there alone. Just me and the cats, and it was quite nice for a bit. Just a bit though. Eventually I secluded myself more and more, and the things needing to be done piled up. I found myself unable to do much but partake in my vices and exist. Looking back I know this is because if I let myself feel anything at all it would feel as though I was being obliterated.

Eventually this sense of dread extended to any action I had to take. All the way down to getting out of bed or even breathing at some points. So yeah a whole lot of panic attacks.

Which leads us to the sobbing over laundry. I couldn't tell you what had led up to me calling my dad to the house to help me do laundry. I couldn't tell you what season it was, what day it was, what job I was working at the time, nothing. What I can tell you, is that I spent about 20-30 minutes kneeling on my basement floor, sobbing, taking heaving breaths, as I sorted a large pile of laundry in an unclear pattern.

It took awhile for my dad to break through and eventually get a load in the wash. I also couldn't tell you what happened after that.

This has been on rinse and repeat for most of my life.

I felt the need to write this both for myself and just so others see it. I've always utilized writing to let concepts leave my brain. When others read or hear my words, they no longer feel like mine. So they stop bouncing around in my head.

So yeah, that's how I've processed this disorder so far. I'm scheduling the psych approved therapy tomorrow or this afternoon idk we'll see what my brain can handle. All I know is I don't want the laundry to make me sob anymore.

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u/Miss-This — 17 days ago