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Silhouettes at The Louvre, Paris.

Silhouettes at The Louvre, Paris.


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The Dead Icarus (1743)Paul Ambroise Slodtz (1702-1758)The Dead Icarus is a brilliant piece of drama,The Dead Icarus (1743)Paul Ambroise Slodtz (1702-1758)The Dead Icarus is a brilliant piece of drama,The Dead Icarus (1743)Paul Ambroise Slodtz (1702-1758)The Dead Icarus is a brilliant piece of drama,

The Dead Icarus (1743)

Paul Ambroise Slodtz (1702-1758)

The Dead Icarus is a brilliant piece of drama, in one way an academically respectable study of the nude, in another highly picturesque. The almost pretty handling of the long feathers of the wings and the loops of ribbon is counteracted by the starkly dramatic pose of the broken body, whose flotsam-like character is conveyed by its being supported on the crest of a wave. It is raised only to be about to fall again; and already the water draws away in foam at the lower right. While remaining elegant, the piece yet manages to convey a sense of shock; in its effect it is not so much Rococo as romantic.

Inspired by the myth of Icarus as we know it from Ovid’s Metamophosesand Hyginus’ Fabula 40


Marble,H: 0.38 m, L: 0.64 m, D: 0.548 m - MR2094

Paris, Musée du Louvre


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Peace / photograph of a vintage 1885 engraving of the sculpture “Peace” by Antoine-Louis

Peace / photograph of a vintage 1885 engraving of the sculpture “Peace” by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796-1875) - residing at the time in the Louvre, Paris

Originally Posted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/4523344682/


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The Louvre at night(Loomis Dean. 1958)

The Louvre at night

(Loomis Dean. 1958)


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The Louvre(Dmitri Kessel. 1950)

The Louvre

(Dmitri Kessel. 1950)


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Gold, pearl, and enamel pendant in the form of a ship, Italy, 16th c.Currently on display at The Lou

Gold, pearl, and enamel pendant in the form of a ship, Italy, 16th c.

Currently on display at The Louvre.


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The Sleep of Endymion by Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, 1791. A gorgeous man: that’s an oxymor

The Sleep of Endymion by Anne Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, 1791.

A gorgeous man: that’s an oxymoron, right? At least it is in the current iteration of western culture– but the Greeks and Romans had other perspectives on male beauty.

Endymion, mythology’s loveliest mortal, is a young shepherd (not a hunter or warrior) sleeping away a sentence of 30 years for offending Juno. Over this period he will not age, and chaste Diana, goddess of the moon, shines her beams on him, playing the voyeur. Zephyr pulls back the branches of the laurel tree so she can get a better view.

Critics speculate that Girodet has rendered Endymion as effeminate or gay–an odd interpretation for such a vivid portrayal of heterosexual lust. Somehow that must seem less preposterous to them than the idea that a woman, a goddess, might enjoy checking out vulnerable, naked, gorgeous male flesh.

(Additional source: The Louvre)


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She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed toShe never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to

She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.


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