Meditation - 1897, Ivory, by Victor Rousseau, Belgium
The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
Art Nouveau vase, enamel and gold painted glass, by Legras & Cie of St Denis, France, 1900
Baden State Museum at the Market, Karlsruhe, Germany
Art Nouveau Dining Room Suite designed by Koloman Moser, Vienna, 1904 - photos by Charles Reeza at the Baden State Museum at the Market, Karlsruhe, Germany
Art Nouveau commercial and residential building by the architect Gottfried Zinser, 1905 - Ritterstraße 6 in Karlsruhe, Germany
Photos by Charles Reeza
Allegory of Damnation in Hell - Ivory, by Johann Christoph Ludwig Lücke, Dresden, 1736
The Reiner Winkler Collection, Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Scene with Bacchus, the God of Wine - Carved ivory lit from behind, by Ignaz Elhafen, c. 1700, Vienna
The Reiner Winkler Collection, Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Venus Chastizing Cupid - Ivory, late 19th century? Germany?
The Reiner Winkler Collection, Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Dance of the Rats by Ferdinand van Kessel, c. 1690, Antwerp
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
The Pope's Ass - Engraving by Wenzel von Olmütz, c. 1498-1500, Olomouc (Olmütz), Czech Republic
Städel Museum, Frankfurt
I'm on a diet that allows me to eat one donut per week on my "cheat day."
Today is my cheat day.
Mummy Portrait of a Girl - Roman Egypt, 120-150 CE, encaustic on sycamore wood
Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Hunt of the Caledonian Boar - Marble sarcophagus relief known as the Meleager Sarcophagus, c. 250-270 CE
Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Profile Portrait of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria - 18th century ivory relief in a tortoiseshell frame with inlays of ivory and mother-of-pearl
Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Fury on a Leaping Horse - Ivory and bone, sculpted by the so-called Master of the Furies, Salzburg, c. 1610
Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
I had no idea this Devil's Trumpet (double purple datura) would get so large! The flowers are pretty, but I won't grow another one. Now I have to find all the seed pods and destroy them along with every other part of this highly toxic plant that came with no warning label.
Rudbeckia in my humble pollinator garden, now in its third year
My front garden at its late summer peak - August 27, 2023
Patriarca
The Church of San Giuseppe dei Teatini in Palermo, Sicily
Photo by Charles Reeza