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Beauty is truth

Beauty is truth; truth beauty; that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

The Most Beautiful Sculptures Ever Made

If you look closely at the forearm of Michelangelo’s Moses, you’ll find a tiny muscle that only tightens when you lift your little finger, and since Moses has his little finger raised, Michelangelo carved that muscle tensed beneath the marble... He poured that extraordinary knowledge of the human body into a statue carved between 1513 and…

Van Gogh painted this in one of the happiest moments of his life, for a friend he couldn’t wait to welcome home, and he had no idea what was coming... In the summer of 1888 Vincent was living alone in a small yellow house in Arles, in the south of France, and he had a dream: to turn it into a home for artists, a place where painters could…