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writtenvomit:

deathbydebauchery:

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fioridieterne:

Now this is remarkable.

I hope you, too, thought this was a picture of actual human beings. The fingers that slightly indent the flesh of a woman. Looks normal. but it should not. It is a 400 year old sculpture - marble - that is a fucking hard material.

Contemporaries used to describe the way Bernini worked as “raping marble” because he could do things to it, others were not even able to think of.

Another sculpture of his “Apollo and Daphne” is just as remarkable because he managed to sculpt leaves that were so thin they became translucent. Remember we are talking about stone here.

Bernini Sculpture: Pluto and Proserpina (1621-22)

Wow. <3

Really amazing.

Now I want to see the actual sculpture.

SHEA!

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bitterbuffalo:

Well I never noticed that before. 

I may or may not have just gotten out my leftover pound sterling change and did this. Didn’t have the newer 50p/20p pieces though… 
OH WELL, LOOKS LIKE I’LL HAVE TO GO BACK TO ENGLAND TO GET THEM.  

[The redesign was the result of a competition launched by the Royal Mint in August 2005, ending that November. The competition was open to the public and received over 4,000 entries. The winning entry was unveiled on 2 April 2008, which was designed by Matthew Dent, a Welsh graphic designer who has an ironically arse-looking website. 

“The Royal Mint stated the new designs were ‘reflecting a twenty-first century Britain.’ An advisor to the Royal Mint described the new coins as ‘post-modern, something that could not have been done 50 years previously.’”]