zeezrom wrote:Blixa wrote:
Of all the statues I wish could come to life...
Someday I'd like to visit the museum that has the heads and arms of the sculptures in all the other museums.
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Someday I'd like to visit the museum that has the heads and arms of the sculptures in all the other museums.
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The temple of "Nike Apteros"
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... e_2010.jpg[/img]
A statue of Nike stood in the cella, or otherwise referred to as a naos. Nike was originally the "winged victory" goddess (see the winged Nike of Samothrace SEE BLIXA'S COMMENT) The Athena Nike statue's absence of wings led Athenians in later centuries to call it Nike Apteros (wingless victory), and the story arose that the statue was deprived of wings so that it could never leave the city.
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... dale_1.JPG[/img]
As a student in middle school (You call it high...) I used to drawn this type of plans - subject: history of architecture.
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... e-Plan.gif[/img]
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... e_2010.jpg[/img]
A statue of Nike stood in the cella, or otherwise referred to as a naos. Nike was originally the "winged victory" goddess (see the winged Nike of Samothrace SEE BLIXA'S COMMENT) The Athena Nike statue's absence of wings led Athenians in later centuries to call it Nike Apteros (wingless victory), and the story arose that the statue was deprived of wings so that it could never leave the city.
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... dale_1.JPG[/img]
As a student in middle school (You call it high...) I used to drawn this type of plans - subject: history of architecture.
[#img] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... e-Plan.gif[/img]
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ludwigm wrote:The temple of "Nike Apteros"
A statue of Nike stood in the cella, or otherwise referred to as a naos. Nike was originally the "winged victory" goddess (see the winged Nike of Samothrace SEE BLIXA'S COMMENT) The Athena Nike statue's absence of wings led Athenians in later centuries to call it Nike Apteros (wingless victory), and the story arose that the statue was deprived of wings so that it could never leave the city.
As a student in middle school (You call it high...) I used to drawn this type of plans - subject: history of architecture.
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As a fan of entropy and decay, I find much beauty in those ruins, ludwig. One of the most beautiful and moving objects I've ever seen is a small piece of an Egyptian wall mural that just contains the lower face of a woman.
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Blixa wrote:
How come we don't see cool wall art like this on the streets of our suburbs?
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Reminds me of Banksy.
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Odilon Redon - The Winged Man (Fallen Angel) (1880)
Detail from a window created by Archibald J. Davies for the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Deddington, England in 1924.
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Anna Pavlova <3
Mikhail Vrubel, ‘Six Winged Seraph’, (1905)
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