DANCING MAENADS:
2 Large Marble Frieze Reliefs H89 X W165 cm each,
Roman
"The female figures are faithful copies of the models created at the end of the 5th c. BC by the Greek sculptor Callimachus.
Some, such as the maenad holding a basket full of fruit and the one screaming disheveledly brandishing two torches and with her arms wrapped in snakes, are however not typical of the Dionysian thiasos but refer to the iconography of an offering bearer or a Hora [season] and that of an Erinyes [personification of revenge especially towards those who attack one's family], themes that adapt to a funerary context."
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White Marble
Mid- 1st AD
LEFT [no faces preserved]
RIGHT [featured in this post].
Musei Reali Torino, Turin | MRT
[Museum of Antiquities | Museo di Antichità, -1 Floor]
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My snowman Lennon (named after John Lennon) standing by a Christmas tree :)
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Rejoicing In The Garden
A driftwood deer skipping for joy in the conservatory. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.
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Hidden Figures #1 (Wake by Richard Serra) || II.
Leaning into that feeling of minisculity I focused my poses on what the feeling would look like physically: I balled myself up and played with smaller poses accented by little angled touches for dimension. And in those poses, as I bent and stooped and balanced and shrunk, surrounded by these figures, the amount of space between myself and Wake's structures became even more noticeable.
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I felt like a small speck between the vastness of its walls,
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a tiny interloper between pieces and foundations that had stood together for decades.
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And all that space began to emphasize another feeling that was familiar....A feeling of
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isolation,
even in the presence of others.
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And in that moment, between these iconic structures rising in the center of Seattle, it was not lost on me that the feeling Wake's walls were stirring in me I'd experienced many times, not far from where I was standing...
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It was not lost on me that, similarly to the way I joined the structures of Wake, I've been allowed to be a part of the scenery of some of Seattle's groups, allowed to get close to the figures within it. But upon closer inspection, no matter how deeply I slunk myself into them, there were still gaps between myself and my fellow figures: social, emotional, cultural gaps that I couldn't seem to close.
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I may have arched and waved in ways similar to the shapes surrounding me, but my curves were still a little too rounded, my angles a little too sharp to fit into its storied pockets. I was still sticking out and felt it more and more, year after year.
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The sculpture 'The mount of olives' by the church of St. John the Baptist in Znojmo, South Moravia
While the church was already founded in 1628, the sculpture, along with a monastery garden and an orchard, were added later. The sculpture dates from 1754.
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ATHENA:
A 2m-high Roman Statue of 'Egyptian' Athena
White Marble
2 AD
From Egypt
Musei Reali Torino, Turin | MRT
[Museum of Antiquities, Archaeological Gallery, Room 6]
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MRT | Michael Svetbird 18|02|24 6400X4300 600 [I.-III.]
The photographed object is collection item of MRT, photos are subject to copyright.
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📸 Part of the "Reliefs-Friezes-Slabs-Sculpture" MSP Online Photo-gallery:
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https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/72510770/reliefs-friezes-slabs-sculpture
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Rodin hands at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. 30 Rodin sculptures were given to the museum in 2009 by New York philanthropist Iris Cantor.
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Spotlight Photography - Without Words - A Photo by Goff James - What Sees the Owl - A Poem by Elizabeth Sears Bates
What Sees the Owl by Elizabeth Sears (Bates) Gerberding
His velvet wing sweeps through the night:With magic of his wondrous sightHe oversees his vast domain,And king supreme of night doth reign.
Around him lies a silent world,The day with all its noise is furled;When every shadow seems a moon,And every light a sun at noon.
How welcome from the blinding glareIs the cool greyness of the air!How…
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