Aleks
Mar 4, 2008, 12:34 AM
Roman Art from the Louvre (http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/interactives/rome/rome.asp)
The SAM is hosting an exhibit featuring some "never" before seen Roman Statues in the United States.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper871/stills/9yo1v1vx.jpg
The image above is a square from The Gates to Paradise from Florence Italy
The museum will host the exhibit for a few months then the statues will go back to The Louvre.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Antinous-osiris.JPG/488px-Antinous-osiris.JPG
The image above is of Antinous which was the lover of Hadrian (an Egyptian queen). He was drowned in the Nile. When he died Hadrian sent artists to make many statues of him some of which portrait him as Osiris, the Egyptian god of fertility, life, and fertility
:previous: One of my favorite pieces.
Opinion: The exhibit is nice, some of the best statues I've ever seen. Eat before you enter since you can be there for a while. I tried to take pictures but they wouldn't let me but still go, an awesome thing if you've never been to Rome or The Louvre. My favorite statues were the ones of Augustus and his wife which are almost in the Entrance of the exhibit, and lady leaning on a rock which was broken in half and an Italian sculpture later redid.
The SAM is hosting an exhibit featuring some "never" before seen Roman Statues in the United States.
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper871/stills/9yo1v1vx.jpg
The image above is a square from The Gates to Paradise from Florence Italy
The museum will host the exhibit for a few months then the statues will go back to The Louvre.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Antinous-osiris.JPG/488px-Antinous-osiris.JPG
The image above is of Antinous which was the lover of Hadrian (an Egyptian queen). He was drowned in the Nile. When he died Hadrian sent artists to make many statues of him some of which portrait him as Osiris, the Egyptian god of fertility, life, and fertility
:previous: One of my favorite pieces.
Opinion: The exhibit is nice, some of the best statues I've ever seen. Eat before you enter since you can be there for a while. I tried to take pictures but they wouldn't let me but still go, an awesome thing if you've never been to Rome or The Louvre. My favorite statues were the ones of Augustus and his wife which are almost in the Entrance of the exhibit, and lady leaning on a rock which was broken in half and an Italian sculpture later redid.