#Pergamene

BornToBeBlueUnderABadSign

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2 months ago

#Gatti e #pergamene

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-cat-left-pa...

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #SmithsonianMagazine #Smithsonian #manoscritti #miniature

Anthony Majanlahti

@anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social

1 year ago

GIGANTOMACHIA RELIEF, C. 10 BCE. CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI The other piece of the frieze from the Theatre of Balbus is even more reminiscent of the Great Altar of Pergamon, with its dramatic flutter of draperies. This female figure facing right, with a velificatio or cloth billowing over her head to indicate her divinity (rather like a halo in Christian art), is Athena, holding a spear or a huge arrow. She is represented uncanonically, without armour, helmet, Gorgoneion and the rest - here she is a wild maiden with her curly hair flying around her head, and her violent movement and athletic stance shows her fully engaged in battle. To her left is the drapery of another female divinity, creating a swirl of energetic movement that, especially with its original paint, must have been quite a distraction to theatre-goers.

A #ReliefWednesday add-on: a second piece of the huge #relief of the war of the gods and giants from the scenæ frons of the #Theatre of #Balbus in #Rome, a fantastic churn of draperies which has nothing to do with #Augustan sobriety and everything to do with #Pergamene sculpture.