05/07/2016

drawings 2016-07-05

196884 = 196883 + 1 | 22 x 30 inches

ādarśajñāna | 22 x 30 inches

samatājñāna | 22 x 30 inches

04/07/2016

Claude Lorrain

Claude Lorrain | The Daughters of Helios Searching for their Brother Phaeton | 1658
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

see this very nice post by Hélène Emeriaud

26/06/2016

Aethra and Clymene

from the Iliad | Book 3 : Helen Reviews the Champions | brilliantly translated by Robert Fagles

25/06/2016

Barrett Chute 2016-06-25

16/06/2016

drawings 2016-06-16

11/06/2016

Deccani painting

07/06/2016

Rawat Sangram Singh I of Devgarh bathing with Ladies

Rawat Sangram Singh I of Devgarh bathing with Ladies
Rajastan | ~1710 | 50.2cm x 37.7cm

06/06/2016

Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez | 1630-1640 (c.) | British Museum

20/05/2016

Barrett Chute 2016-05-20

Time is a game played beautifully by children | Heraclitus

14/05/2016

Barrett Chute 2016-05-13

Hypotheses non fingo | I frame no hypothesis

[ from Newton’s Principia Mathematica and Cantor’s Contibutions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers ]

12/05/2016

Surreal number tree

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By Lukáš Lánský If you want to help me create some nicer or more accurate version of this image, see Python code that generates it. I welcome pull requests. – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19134117

wikipedia entry

05/05/2016

Matisse

Henri Matisse drawing sketches for the murals of the Chapelle des Dominicains, France | Robert Capa

29/04/2016

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Childhood home of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) : Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu | birthplace of 21st century physics | [ see also this in Quanta on the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture ]