Diane et Actéon by Jean-Léon Gérôme (19th Century)

Jean-Léon Gérôme Retour de la chasse, Circassian à l'abreuvoir ca. 1877

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904), Diogenes

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Grief of the Pasha (1882)

Atelier de Tanagra, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1893.

I rarely post art depicting ancient Greece by Western painters because they tend to sterilize and, at the same time, orientalise the environments and people. But this is one of the few ones that, for some reason, made me feel like my ancestors were... real. I don't know how to better explain it. It makes me feel they had lives and problems just like me, and that here I'm glimpsing a part of their busy life. The shop and interactions within it feel very realistic to me.

Tanagra (Greek: Τανάγρα) is a town and a municipality in Boeotia, Greece. Close to Thebes, it was noted in antiquity for the figurines named after it. The Tanagra figurines were a mass-produced, mold-cast, and fired type of Greek terracotta figurine produced in the later fourth century BC, primarily in Tanagra.

Le Marchand de couleurs (le pileur de couleurs), c.1890-1 by Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

The Black Bard, Jean-Léon Gérôme, ca. 1888

The Antique Pottery Painter, Jean-Leon Gerome, 1893

Nude Woman, Jean-Leon Gerome

#BadBuddyRewatch x Penguin Covers ⪢ Ep NINE — the duel after the masquerade, jean-leon gerome (date 1859)

Truth coming from the well armed with her whip to chastise mankind (1896) by Jean-Léon Gérôme

Ring (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata

The Ring (2002) dir. Gore Verbinski

Été (The Four Seasons) by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1850)

Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Black Bard, c.1888

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904), The Snake Charmer, c.1879

Jean-Leon Gerome - Portrait of a Woman

O Dearly Beloved

“Listen, O dearly beloved!  I am the reality of the world, the centre of the circumference,  I am the parts and the whole.  I am the will established between Heaven and Earth,  I have created perception in you only in order to be the  object of my perception.  If then you perceive me, you perceive yourself.  But you cannot perceive me through yourself,  It is through my eyes that you see me and see yourself,  Through your eyes you cannot see me.  Dearly beloved!  I have called you so often and you have not heard me  I have shown myself to you so often and you have not  seen me.  I have made myself fragrance so often, and you have  not smelled me.  Savorous food, and you have not tasted me.  Why can you not reach me through the object you touch  Or breathe me through sweet perfumes?  Why do you not see me? Why do you not hear me?  Why? Why? Why?”

— Ibn ‘Arabi, Kitab al-Tajalliyat

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Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Muezzin (1865)