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Gold jewelry
Byzantine Empire magnificence
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Dolce Gabbana dress and a mosaic representing the Byzantine Empress Saint Irene of Hungary, born Piroska (1088-1134). This mosaic is located in The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (now Istanbul) circa 1118. Source : flickr
Magnificent Byzantine Empress Theodora
Byzantine dress
Colorful Op art
Colorful bags
Red love
A white dress among colorful flowers
Magnificent India
Sweet sixties
White sixties
Back in the sixties
Splendid Indian dresses
Among colorful and magnificent flowers
Moorish stars
This geometric figure is called an “eight-pointed star” ; it is formed by two overlapping squares. This form is a very famous pattern in the islamic arts. It symbolises the synthese between the circle (symbol of the divin, of the origin and of the perfection) and the square (symbol of the earthly and of the creation).
Under the rainbow
Iris (rainbow in Greek) is the rainbow deesse and messager of the gods. She is charged to deliver the divine messages to the mortals. The rainbow is the Iris manifestation ; it is the bridge between the earth and the sky. To the poets, the rainbow is the track of the Iris’s foot when she descends quickly from the Olympus to the earth. They also name the rainbow as the Iris’s scarf.
Sources : http://mythologica.fr/grec/iris.htm and http://moniris.free.fr/deesse.htm
Over the rainbow
John Vance Cheney said : “The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.”
Source : http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/102152-the-soul-would-have-no-rainbow-had-the-eyes-no
