HistoryArt

In 1496, Cardinal Raffaele Riario, a voracious collector of Roman antiquities, added to his collection a marble sculpture of a sleeping Eros, god of love. The cardinal had purchased the sculpture through art dealer Baldassarre del Milanese, who made a reported 200 ducats on the sale. Despite its aged appearance, however, the sculpture was not a true Roman antique, but rather a forgery created just months prior by a then-relatively-unknown 21-year-old Florentine sculptor. Who could have crafted a forgery so convincing as to deceive the informed eye of an avid, if not overly knowledgeable, collector? None other than Michelangelo…

Kind of in a hurry here, so bonus pts for someone finding a higher-quality version and more info upon this particular piece.

Climates can change drastically across even just a few hundred years.

Not sure, but I think these are credit to German artist Gabriel Nagypál upon a videogame they were developing around the aughts.

All credit to u/dctroll_ for the find and writeup. I decided to put some work in to upgrading the image, and here we are. (I particularly liked that it savored of “ligne claire")

Deinosuchus lived during the Late Cretaceous, ~82 - 73Myrs ago. The first remains were discovered in North Carolina in the 1850s, and the genus was first described in 1909. –WP

They seem prepared! Kinda like this?

Context: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pyramid-of-the-capitalist-system/

This splashie is from the brilliant The Eagles of Rome graphic novel series, book two, by badass Swiss-Italian, writer-artist Enrico Marini.

Granted, this is just an info-booklet for kids, but I found it surprisingly insightful for the likes of dumbasses like me. 14 pages: (swipe left-right / key left-right to navigate)

From the display:

https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-general-history-of-iron-technology

I just now discovered Yemeni artist Obaid Bahumayd, who currently lives in Saudi Arabia. More of his art linked below…