"No Me Pregunten Quién Soy Ni Me Pidan Que Siga Siendo El Mismo". Michel Foucault.

Loving Vincent (2017)

Bust of Tutankhamun sold at auction for £4.7m despite Egypt protests

A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamun has sold at auction in London for more than £4.7m despite Egyptian demands for its return. The ‘rare and beautiful’ 3,000-year-old sculpture goes under the hammer in defiance of claims it was stolen.

The more than 3,000-year-old sculpture, displayed at Christie’s London auction house, shows the boy king taking the form of the ancient Egyptian god Amen.

An unnamed buyer bought the head for £4,746,250 ($5.97m), including commission and in line with the estimated price before the sale, Christie’s said.

The 28.5cm (11.22in) high piece, with damage only to the ears and nose, was sold from the private Resandro collection of Egyptian art. Read more.

Palacio de las Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de México. Foto: Teddy González, 2017.

A Favourite Custom by Lawrence Alma Tadema, 1909

Pectoral of king Amenemopet

The central feature of this pectoral is a lapis lazuli scarab pushing the sun-disc with its front legs. His rear legs hold the cartouche of Amenemopet. 

To either side, the goddesses Isis and Nephthys protect him. At the bottom of the pectoral an inscription provides the name of the king. The frame of the piece presents a winged sun-disc at the top. 

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1069-945 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 86037

Photo: Sandro Vannini

Manlius Torquatus Sentences His Son to Death. 1799. Auguste Alphonse Gaudar de la Verdine. French 1780-1804. oil/canvas. winner Prix de Rome 1799.   http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895): River in the Bois de Boulogne (1886) (via Sotheby’s)

An Epitaph for Agamemnon

Ausonius, Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt I: “Agamemnoni” I – the king of kings, Atreus’ son, Avenger of my brother’s wife – I met My death myself at my own wife’s hands. What profit does it give me to have punished, In my pain, the theft of Helen – when I, who sought to make adulterers pay, Lie slain by the hand of Clytemnestra? Rex regum Atrides, fraternae coniugis ultor,     oppetii manibus coniugis ipse meae. quid prodest Helenes raptum punisse dolentem,     vindicem adulterii cum Clytemestra necet?

Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1822