EXACTLY. If you look at their minor figure sculptures, they're perfect portraits of the individuals. It's in the royal figures that you find that stylizing.
Posted on 11/08/2017 4:59:11 PM PST by sparklite2
Wow! That looks to be very unusual detail and artistic structure not seen in those ages.
OK, someone’s gotta say it: ALIENS!
Wow. That is awesome. What is the scale?
Height: 5cm (1 15/16in.) Weight: 15.8 gm (0.03 lb.)
http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/earring-with-nike-driving-a-two-horse-chariot-155707
LOL...Just do it!
See the enlarged picture at post #3. Imagine that detail carved in a stone that’s only 1.4 inches across. Amazing!
YOu know I love Greek history! This find is really beyond belief! It raises so many questions. I look forward to reading some of the answers in the near future.
If you look closely at the seal, the victorious warrior obviously has a cone head which means he is an Ancient Alien, part of the group colonizing the area.
Only THEY had the skills to carve that seal with such intricate and beautiful detail.
I expect it to be on the TV series with George any time now. :-)
If you look closely at the seal, the victorious warrior obviously has a cone head which means he is an Ancient Alien, part of the group colonizing the area.
Only THEY had the skills to carve that seal with such intricate and beautiful detail.
I expect it to be on the TV series with George any time now. :-)
I thought the coneheads were from Mars.
Remulak
Oh, yeah, that’s right. Meeps Meeps!
Do you regard the one plunging the lance through-and-through the chest of his opponent the victor, or the one plunging a sword through the subclavian artery of his opponent the victor?
:^)
France! They’re from France! ;^)
I love the MFA, but haven’t been there in a really long time.
It has changed quite a bit...and not to my liking.
Used to be the large room that had all the Monet haystacks, where they would surround you in all their glory. Now it is more several rooms, linked ...and you don’t get the same sense of them. They call them *ensembles*.
The Gardner, also on the Fens, for me, is the most charming museum. Many Sundays spent in the Courtyard studying and listening to the chamber music. Great memories of great times.
Then there is the unfortunate robbery.
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/organization/theft
>I can’t imagine doing this without some sort of magnification.
Both the Egyptians and Romans used water-filled glass bulbs for magnification. Not as convenient spectacles, but much easier to manufacture.
There seems to be a real drive on to isolate individual works of art (as if visitors are all afflicted with ADHD, apparently), leaving museums the proud display surface of Sherwin-Williams. It is annoying, at best. Naturally, my favorite rooms in the MFA start (or started) at the Egyptian room, which begins with Old Kingdom and winds up making an exit into Greek and Roman stuff. Pretty much wanted to rent an efficiency in the attic overlooking the place and just stay there.
Sterile.
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