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...

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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

Xerses phus

2021-07-26 04:00:00

#ChessInVisualArts 1/n
Libro de los juegos (Book of games)
commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile
completed in Toledo in 1283
Library of the Monastery of El Escorial, Spain
#chess #VisualArts #IlluminatedManuscript #LibroDeLosJuegos1283 #ChessHistory #MiddleAges

Uni Göttingen

2021-07-26 10:21:42

Update zu den Impfungen in unserer Turmmensa: Es sind kurzfristig Termine für Freitag, 30. Juli 2021, und Montag 2. August 2021, verfügbar geworden. Anmeldung unter uni-goettingen.de/de/645319.html

Hnefatafl Board Game

2021-07-24 23:54:33

Some Puzzling Gaming Pieces from Warrington dlvr.it/S4MdLh

Michael Lorenz 🇺🇦

2021-07-24 10:13:13

A page from Josef Krejcik's handwritten(!) dissertation entitled "Dante. Das Weltbild eines scholastischen Kosmographen" from 1917. #chess #chesshistory

Weird Science

2021-07-23 02:20:39

Science saves lives.