#laurel wreath

[katarinanavane]

I've just finished making these ancient Roman inspired "laurel wreath" crowns out of jewel beetle shells and preserved 17 year cicada wings. I've done three of the jewel beetle ones, so one is in my Etsy (link in bio), the cicada wing one is one of a kind so far so I haven't listed it yet. I'm really happy with how these came out!

[wearemercs]

Zelda Roman Empire AU by rivaeri

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Thomas Couture (1815-1879) "Daydreams" (1859) Oil on canvas Located in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

[illustratus]

Portrait of Dante Alighieri | Florentine School, Circa 1530

[anede]

Freddie as Hades

[didoofcarthage]

Aureus with bust of Venus (obverse) and laurel wreath (reverse), minted at Rome under Julius Caesar

Roman, Republican Period, 44 B.C.

gold

British Museum

[wireiousartist]

Melinoe from Hades 2 inspired necklace/coronette! 😁 I am currently obsessed with playing first part through netflix but osmosis of internet showed me what the new addition is all about and I felt so inspired by seeing her stunning design that I had to make something!

And here is the result! 😁😁💪

[artschoolglasses]

Gold laurel wreath, 3rd - 2nd Century BCE

From the Getty Villa Museum

[theromaboo]

The Sixth Day of Julius Caesar

I once heard someone attributing Julius Caesar's illness (which might've been epilepsy or mini strokes or something else or maybe it wasn't a specific chronic illness at all. It's controversial right now) to wearing a laurel wreath, and I don't really understand how that works.

During Caesar's time, a laurel wreath would've most likely been made out of the plant Laurus nobilis, you know, bay leaves. Caesar might've gotten a stomachache if he ate a significant amount of them, but I am yet to read any sources that mention Caesar eating straight laurel!

Laurel wreaths could also be made out of a plant called Prunus laurocerasus (though I don't know if it was used for laurel wreaths in ancient Rome. I can't find anything about that). Its common name is cherry laurel, and it is toxic. I've read that you can irritate your skin if you touch it too much, but you'll have to eat it if you want to get the really bad effects.

I don't think Caesar was out here constantly eating all of his laurel wreaths. I'd assume that if he was, people would've made fun of him for it and therefore it would be mentioned somewhere.

I think the reason someone came up with this idea is because it's ironic. Caesar apparently liked his privilege of wearing a laurel wreath at all times because it hid his thinning hair (Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar, 45.2). It'll be so ironic if his illness was caused by it. However, without any evidence of Caesar eating laurel wreaths made out of cherry laurel, this is an incredibly weak theory.

[beginner-witch-blog]

Oh my god, guys.

Are we just going to ignore the fact that bay trees and laurel trees—the laurel trees, used for Roman victory wreaths—are the same?? Why is witchblr sitting on this??

And why are bay leaved associated with prosperity? It makes sense, but they should symbolise victory and glory! Success! Fame, winning, being lauded and recognised! Prosperity comes along with this but it's not central.

I only found this out yesterday, I'm shocked.

[galleryofart]

Poetry

Artist: Alessandro Turchi (Italian, 1578-1649)

Date: 1606

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Royal Collection, United Kingdom

Description

This painting depicting Poetry formed one side of an organ shutter originally painted for the organ in the newly built music hall at the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona. When the shutters were opened, Music appeared on the left with Poetry on the right. The figure was inspired by Cesare Ripa's Iconologia and the artist probably consulted the 1603 edition which has some woodcut illustrations. Identifiable primarily by their costume and the attributes they hold. Crowned with a laurel wreath, Poetry is dressed in blue to show that poetry is a heavenly art; her head is winged, to convey her 'flights of Fancy'; she holds a book in one hand and, in the other, a laurel branch, sharpened like a quill pen. Ripa includes the laurel crown, wings on head, book in left hand and 'sceptre' of laurel, but there is no woodcut illustration.

King's Bed Chamber, Windsor Castle

[eohoppeofficial]

Vita Sackville-West, Writer, 1916.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Temperance

Artist: Alonso Berrughete (Spanish, 1488-1561)

Date: 1513-1516

Medium: Oil on Panel

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

This painting is among the few known works from Berruguete's formative years in Florence and Rome , the latter depicted in the background. The bridle bit, the hand on the breast and the laurel wreath allude to the subjugation of the instincts by reason and temperament.

[wearemercs]

by YakoArtz

[illustratus]

Virgil and Dante Sitting on the Back of Geryon by Bartolomeo Pinelli

[whalewhale82]

The closing ceremony is so long that I could finish a Luka doodle.🥱

I always remember the laurel wreath worn by the gold medalist in the 2004 Athens Olympics. super classic✨