And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
"Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art." - Leonardo da Vinci
My bad, my thanks, have mistook it for years as Michelangelo's work. Yeah its pretty incredible one of those you gotta see it with your own peepers things to bring it justice.
His work is mind blowing, seeing it with your eyes, everything is there making it look alive except the colors, and its so real looking it hardly matters its in white marble, that at any moment your seeing it your mind expects the human forms to begin moving, wonderful optical allusions. His David sculpture though is by far his masterpiece, except his genitals, they are comic book like, really should have given him a higs leg, the guy has a perfect man's physique, maybe Queen Ann and Prince Albert castrated David out of being prudes, or something. If you get to London, you must stop at QA and PA's Museum, its an Isabela Gardner Museum on crank. Close to all the worlds masterpieces, from whole Spanish Cathedral fronts to David's statue, they preserved much that has been destroyed in white plaster. Mind boggling undertaking. You can't see everything there, just the edged weapons room deserves at least a weeks perusing in order to look at all the displayed pieces. But an interesting fascinating aside, the old Town of Sarum, they have the worlds talkedt free standing stone building, its a cathedral built over generations of laborors, stone masons and artists, beneath it leading under the town are tunnels chockablock stuffed with art and artifacts, including a doily museum where Lace is still made, plus the Wedgwood factory museum, thats exceptional in itself, the precise utterly pristine methods used to produce their pottery is astounding. They have a series of blue Wedgwood pieces beyond anything I have seen as far as perfect in every detail. Spent two weeks wandering underground seeing everything, a mad scientist built it.
Bernini's David is in the Galleria Borghese in Rome and has the genitals covered. You are probably talking about the casting of Michelangelo's David, the original is in the Accademia di Belle Arte, in Florence. The two statues are very different: while Michelangelo expressed the typical renaissance style, using a very static posture, concentrating on proportions and posture, Bernini's work uses the baroque ideas of depiction of the most expressive instants in the suggested movement of the subject - in the case of David the moment before he casts the stone, depicting the tension of the barely restrained explosive movement and the concentration depicted on the subjects' face. Truly a masterpiece! In the picture above that's The Rape of Proserpina - another masterpiece from Gianlorenzo Bernini, also from Galleria Borghese.
This is an example of where the "all cultures are equal" crowd show their stupidity. No evidence of high art in South America, Africa, or Muslims cultures. Asia and India, yes. Others nope.
Islam will destroy all art if they take over the European nation they are in, already have statues in Italy. This must not happen, none of the great works will ever be repaired or recreated.
Based on the idiot "woke" libtard turds tearing down all kinds of statues and memorials all over the world, I am a bit surprised that this statue of a rape has not been destroyed by those history-denying snowflakes.
Man, Bernini was a master sculptor. It’s incredible how he captures the suppleness of flesh in marble. It’s quite remarkable.
ReplyDeleteMy bad, my thanks, have mistook it for years as Michelangelo's work. Yeah its pretty incredible one of those you gotta see it with your own peepers things to bring it justice.
DeleteHis work is mind blowing, seeing it with your eyes, everything is there making it look alive except the colors, and its so real looking it hardly matters its in white marble, that at any moment your seeing it your mind expects the human forms to begin moving, wonderful optical allusions. His David sculpture though is by far his masterpiece, except his genitals, they are comic book like, really should have given him a higs leg, the guy has a perfect man's physique, maybe Queen Ann and Prince Albert castrated David out of being prudes, or something. If you get to London, you must stop at QA and PA's Museum, its an Isabela Gardner Museum on crank. Close to all the worlds masterpieces, from whole Spanish Cathedral fronts to David's statue, they preserved much that has been destroyed in white plaster. Mind boggling undertaking. You can't see everything there, just the edged weapons room deserves at least a weeks perusing in order to look at all the displayed pieces.
ReplyDeleteBut an interesting fascinating aside, the old Town of Sarum, they have the worlds talkedt free standing stone building, its a cathedral built over generations of laborors, stone masons and artists, beneath it leading under the town are tunnels chockablock stuffed with art and artifacts, including a doily museum where Lace is still made, plus the Wedgwood factory museum, thats exceptional in itself, the precise utterly pristine methods used to produce their pottery is astounding. They have a series of blue Wedgwood pieces beyond anything I have seen as far as perfect in every detail. Spent two weeks wandering underground seeing everything, a mad scientist built it.
Bernini's David is in the Galleria Borghese in Rome and has the genitals covered. You are probably talking about the casting of Michelangelo's David, the original is in the Accademia di Belle Arte, in Florence. The two statues are very different: while Michelangelo expressed the typical renaissance style, using a very static posture, concentrating on proportions and posture, Bernini's work uses the baroque ideas of depiction of the most expressive instants in the suggested movement of the subject - in the case of David the moment before he casts the stone, depicting the tension of the barely restrained explosive movement and the concentration depicted on the subjects' face. Truly a masterpiece!
DeleteIn the picture above that's The Rape of Proserpina - another masterpiece from Gianlorenzo Bernini, also from Galleria Borghese.
Yeah, it is the cast of David at the Queen Ann Prince Albert Museum that was so amazing to me.
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ReplyDeleteThis is an example of where the "all cultures are equal" crowd show their stupidity. No evidence of high art in South America, Africa, or Muslims cultures. Asia and India, yes. Others nope.
ReplyDeleteIslam will destroy all art if they take over the European nation they are in, already have statues in Italy. This must not happen, none of the great works will ever be repaired or recreated.
DeleteBased on the idiot "woke" libtard turds tearing down all kinds of statues and memorials all over the world, I am a bit surprised that this statue of a rape has not been destroyed by those history-denying snowflakes.
ReplyDeleteRape ? Spoils of war.
DeleteRape maybe but she is aroused, her toes tell the tail.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you-all need to study your ancient art history...
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Proserpina