Tag: Art
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Cute couple
Cute couple Two lovers in a compromising embrace. The woman is on the alert for being caught in the act. Even though it’s almost 2000 years ago, the scene is timeless, and funny at that. Photo of the week: Roman mosaic, Villa Romana del casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy 2000
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Spring
Spring A girl, naked, walking her dog, 2000 years ago. After my first surprise – a double surprise -, I saw that she doesn’t hold the leash. She has a flower in her hand. She is part of an enormous Roman mosaic (almost 25 m², late 2nd cent. CE), depicting in the middle the ‘Triumph…
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Beware pickpocket
Beware pickpocket Wat Pho is known for its reclining Buddha, an impressive statue measuring 46 meter in length from top to toe. The soles of his feet – 3 meter high and 4.5 meter long – are inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Photos of the week: Reclining Buddha, Wat Pho, Bangkok, Thailand 2019
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Wat Pho
Wat Pho The stone statue can easily be recognized as Chinese; the way the tree branches have been steered in their growth betrays Japanese inspiration; and the Buddha images in the back are clearly Thai. Three examples of three Asian aesthetic traditions harmoniously brought together in a corner of the temple complex of Wat Pho.…
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David
David In last week’s post we could find a tiny plastic David at the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Here he is a full-size bronze copy of the original marble sculpture, overlooking Florence from the elevated Piazzale Michelangelo. For a stone replica we have to descend into town to the Piazza della Signora. And if we…
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Fontana di Trevi
Fontana di Trevi Except for Mary with her dead son on her lap, Venus, David, the Sabine woman … I think they all would rather like splashing about in the fountain under the watchful eye of Oceanus. I miss Anita Ekberg, she would have fit in nicely among them. Photo of the week: Souvenir stall,…
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Selinunte
Selinunte This photo tells a similar story as the one of last week, through its subject as well as its composition. Here we are in an ancient Greek city, not in western Turkey but on the south coast of Sicily, Italy. And the temple in the distance on the left is not of Ionic but…
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Priene
Priene The temple of Athena in Priene was built in the Ionic order, clearly recognizable from the shape of the capitals with two volutes (scrolls). In the course of time the whole temple had collapsed or was destroyed. All the pillars were down and their drums were spread around. Only in the sixties of the…
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Drum field
Drum field After last week’s Gerasa-Jerash, another example of past and present next to each other, 24 centuries apart. In the foreground, drums of pillars of the temple of Athena in the ancient Greek city of Priene, Turkey. In the background, the neatly organized agricultural fields of the plain below. Archaic Priene had a sea…
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Musers
Musers The musings of the stone figures are focussed on the child at their feet that goes its own way. The large head in the back is looking in the same direction but seems engrossed in his own thoughts. This musing in unison is contagious, I feel like joining them. Photo of the week: Berlin,…
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