Ramblings of Rick Rockhill. Pet Food Nutrition Industry Veteran. Public Speaker. Student of life, doing what I love. Following my passions and that which inspire me. Advocate for the health benefits of the human-animal bond, animal nutrition, animal advocacy, awareness of prescription drug abuse and the fentanyl crisis. Home is Palm Springs, California, USA.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sunday Art Review: Statues of the Vatican Museum
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5 comments:
I don't know if I can pick a favorite... maybe the one with the snake curled around because it's so elaborate and I can't imagine all of the time and effort it took to create.
Ugh! I don't know, they are all fabulous. I guess I just really enjoy sculptures. :)
--snow
It has always amazed me at the artists' ability to hold such proportion while working in stone! Wonderful photo essay Rick.
what a shame that you were hurried through so quickly. good art is like good food, best when savored. thanks for sharing a feast for the eyes.
Ooh some familiar figures here, I LOVE statues and had a field day at the Vatican museums.
But somebody stop me I could do a mini lecture here.
1) Laocoon and his sons, they were killed by Poseidon's serpent for speaking against the god - it slipped out of the sea behind them and strangled them to death.
3) is possibly a Caesar's face tacked onto a body (like 2 and 7). Difference between the Greeks and Romans is the Greeks celebrated the beauty of the human body and its proportions. The Romans made garden statuary - mass produced bodies with customized faces. However, thanks to the Greeks we have the canon of proportions, meaning if you take the head and measure the rest of the body with it you get 5 perfect sections.
There is a statue in the Vatican Museums that represents this canon in perfection but that's a story for another time. It was unearthed under a restaurant I had eaten at in the Trastevere. Another good story.
The other thing is many of these Greco Roman statues are Roman copies of bronze Greek originals. The Greeks mostly used bronze - then the Romans melted them down to make the tools of war, but often not before copying them faithfully in marble. So thanks to them for that!
6) reclining is a river god.
8) goddess with topknot is very likely Aphrodite...
9) Apollo Belvedere. He has just shot an arrow (missing as well as his bow). This is one notable "Roman copy of a Greek bronze original" - a phrase we heard ad nauseam on our course.
10) Looks like a satyr (note his horns), of the cult of Dionysus/Bacchus, and hence should be your favorite - lots of wine! By the way, our word "wine" comes from the Greek word for it: oinos.
Nicely done, even without the commentary!
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