Hanna Jansson

2021-08-13 21:47:00

Now, feast your Friday eyes on these absolutely gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Birka grave Bj. 750.

📸Ola Myrin, SHM. CC-BY
mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.as…

Arkansas Archeological Survey

2021-08-13 14:00:02

For Friday the 13th, we present this ceramic doll arm from our teaching collection. Ceramic doll parts are sometimes found on historic sites. The doll's body was made of cloth with the limbs sewed on. The soft material decays, leaving only the limbs to be found archeologically.

David Llada ♞

2021-08-13 05:59:55

“Chess Game”, by Will Barnet, 1973.

Xerses phus

2021-08-13 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 9/n
Lucan von Leyden
The game of chess
Oil on panel
ca. 1508
Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #painting #LeydenLucanVan #Leyden1508

John McCafferty

2021-08-11 10:09:23

As an Arctic #walrus has now turned up in West Cork messing about in people's boats, I thought I'd tweet an image of one of its 16th century predecessors

(Walrus, unknown artist, 1550 - 1570, Rijksmuseum)

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-11 18:59:20

Math is a playful thing!

Left, icosahedron die. Faces with Greek letters, from the Ptolemaic Period–Roman Period, 2nd century B.C.–4th century A.D., found in Egypt (MET collection).

Right, Leonardo da Vinci illustration for Luca Pacioli's book, Divina Proportione, 1509.

Jill Burke

2021-08-11 07:07:15

I'm going to the funeral of my friend Michael Bury (1947-2021) today. He was an art historian best known for his work on 16th c Italian prints. In the British Museum online , his work is quoted 100s of times - here he is identifying a game about owls
britishmuseum.org/collection/obj…

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-10 23:53:47

Murders in the Rue Morge
(1986)
George C Scott, Van Kilmer

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-07 01:05:31

"De Ludo Scachorum,” by Luca Pacioli, early 1500s, is believed by some it has illustrations by or based on a chess set designed by no less than Leonardo da Vinci.

Others cast some doubts on it.

I just enjoy the diagram and the possibility...

Coronini Cronberg Foundation

Landesmuseum Württemberg

2021-08-10 09:44:04

Diese 3 Löwen zieren denselben Bronzekessel. Die hinteren 2 stammen aus einer griechischen Werkstatt in Italien. Der vordere entspricht der Bildsprache des frühkeltischen Mitteleuropas. Erkennt ihr die Unterschiede?
Hochdorfer Kessel: buff.ly/3A7rqtc
#WeltLöwenTag #Kelten

Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya

2021-08-10 09:00:37

🎲 Sabies que el joc era uns dels elements més importants de l’oci a època romana?

Aquest dissabte, el #MACempúries ha preparat un divertit taller per conèixer els jocs a l’antiguitat, i fabricarem una bosseta amb daus per jugar com els antics romans!

👉 loom.ly/ktS7biM

Norbert Wallet

2021-08-10 08:43:50

Da ist es endlich. Zusammen mit FM Jürgen Brustkern habe ich im Beyer-Verlag ein Buch über das traditionsreichste Schachturnier der Welt geschrieben. Es stellt Kämpfer, Künstler und Königsjäger vor und ist eine Einladung zur Entdeckungsreise...
#Schach
#chess
#chesshistory

Jon-Paul Dyson

2021-08-09 15:30:57

From Untitled Goose Game to the Royal Game of Goose, a not-so-deep dive into the history of animals as a theme for games in my latest blog: museumofplay.org/blog/2021/08/q…

Marielle J.PdeG

2021-08-06 16:03:37

"Hnefatafl" le jeu de société au cœur de la culture viking
gusandco.net/2019/10/19/hne…

Lucy Worsley

2021-08-06 19:39:14

I really love the grumpy queen from this reproduction set of Lewis chess pieces. Totally exuding the vibe of the mum who comes home after a hard day’s work to find that no other family member has emptied the bins.

precious

2021-08-08 17:48:23

taken at a tiny chess museum 😁

Xerses phus

2021-08-09 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 7/n
Hans Muelich
Duke Albrecht V. of Bavaria and his consort Anna of Austria playing chess
Miniature
1552
in: Jewel Book of the Duchess Anna of Bavaria; Bavarian State Library, Munich, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #minature #IlluminatedManuscript #Muelich1552

Olimpiu Di Luppi

2021-08-08 08:49:52

English boys playing chess and Hitler Youth boys playing checkers (Corbis Archive).

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-07 23:37:23

Brats (1930)
Laurel & Hardy

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-08-07 09:07:15

@archilocheion @Ingram_Braun Die Fundstelle im Sommer 1979

Scharfrichter (Peter Walther)

2021-08-07 05:55:02

Heute vor pfeilgrad 113 Jahren, am 7. August 1908, wurde bei Bauarbeiten zur Donauuferbahn die »Venus von Willendorf« gefunden.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-06 21:49:19

"Chess Player in Bathing Cap" 1960s
Harry Lapow (1909-1982)

From the Coney Island, NY series.

Beach, what beach? No words, just a magnificient picture!

Alan Klotz Gallery

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-06 03:34:21

"Chess", 1911
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

This oil on canvas from Picasso's late cubism period portraits chess pieces from all points of view. They are hard to find, mixed on a round table, suggesting the organized dynamics of a chess game.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Xerses phus

2021-08-06 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 6/n
Albertus Pictor (attr.)
Death playing chess with man
Mural painting
late 1480s
Täby parish church, Uppland, Sweden
#chess #VisualArts #painting #MuralPainting #MiddleAges #AlbertusPictor

Howard Staunton

2021-08-05 09:35:03

Amid the sultry idlesse of the Turks and Arabs, it is well known that chess, along with coffee and smoking, is a very favourite pastime.

Howard Staunton

2021-08-06 09:25:02

Throughout the chivalrous ages chess was the great court game, the patronised favourite sport of all the nobility of Europe.

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-08-06 20:51:39

"The Chess Players", 1610s

First attributed to Caravaggio, it might have been painted by one of his students. Still, it reflects the total focus of the players over the position. Yes, black square on the right, so?

Galerie Academia, Venezia

Xerses phus

2021-07-22 16:00:01

Schiller's private #chess set can still be admired today in the German Literature Archive in Marbach (@DLAMarbach).
#UniJena #AllStarTeam #jena #ChessPlayer #ChessHistory #AlmaMaterJenensisAllStarChessTeam #SchillerFriedrich #Schiller #ChessSet #ChessPieces

Xerses phus

2021-07-25 16:00:01

In his "Annotatio de quibusdam Ludis" (A Note on certain Games) published in 1710 (in: Miscellanea Berolinensia, pp. 22-26) #Leibniz also discusses the game of #chess.
#AlmaMaterJenensisAllStarChessTeam #LeibnizGottfriedWilhelm
pic: Leibniz: Annotatio de quibusdam Ludis

Xerses phus

2021-08-02 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 4/n
Buzurgmihr masters the game of chess
Folio from the #Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Author: #Firdausi (ca. 940/41-1020)
Persian manuscript made in Iran or Iraq
ca. 1300-30
Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #MiddleAges

Xerses phus

2021-08-03 10:00:00

#LegendsPlayingChess 2/n
Bob Dylan
#chess #ChessPlayer #BobDylan #Dylan #singer #songwriter #poet #artist #NobelLaureateInLiterature #legend

Xerses phus

2021-08-04 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 5/n
Marcel #Duchamp
Portrait of chess players
Oil on canvas
1911
Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
#chess #VisualArts #painting #DuchampMarcel #Duchamp1911 #ChessPlayer

Maria Tatiana

2021-08-04 16:07:30

Field hockey at the Olympics permanently since 1928, but it was played as early as the 6th century BCE.

For #ReliefWednesday a marble relief from ancient #Greece National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Photo: Zde ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/assas… @AncientWorldMag

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-07-28 23:47:13

Italian painter Arturo Ricci (1854 - 1919) has this delightful work "Sala artistica, 1884"

The studio of the artist, paint, canvas, the model... taking a break... to play chess...

ᛏᚬᚱᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ

2021-07-29 18:53:19

@univellum Happy Thors day!
The Eyrarland Statue AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland🇮🇸.

Xerses phus

2021-07-30 04:00:01

#ChessInVisualArts 3/n
Gunther von Hagens
Chess player
Plastination
2006
Plastinarium, Guben, Germany
#chess #VisualArts #sculpture #plastination #HagensGuntherVon #ChessPlayer
photo: dpa/shp pzi ent

Diego Rasskin Gutman

2021-07-25 14:13:45

Chess Photo art.

"A game of chess"
Baumann Studio, New York/1914

Library of Congress

Hnefatafl Board Game

2021-07-27 00:03:04

More Information on the Knockanboy Board dlvr.it/S4TXqW