Painting
"Service Station"
!!??
artist not known
Painting
by
Cornelius McCarthy
Wonderful Body Art
"What The Butler Saw"
creative photography
Vintage
Hungarian Bank Note
All sex should be magic!!!
"Satyr"
wonderful Greek bronze
about 150 BC
found on the ocean floor
- cleaned and polished
Yes! Spring is certainly in the air!
Welcome!
So pleased that you have returned!
What about that Greek bronze?!?
I know someone who would like it in his backyard!!
Thanks for your visits!
I see
REUNION
has returned!
Everyone is welcome!
Patrick
I hope you like today's post!
3 comments:
you're waiting for Spring, here for autumn
Love the bubbles!
Though nudity was acceptable, the old sculptures and statuary showed small penises because the ancient societies thought a large penis to be a negative. My, how times have changed, eh? Now, the larger the better, but for the most part society wants them covered.
What is the case for the statue being a Satyr as opposed to simply a handsome human youth? He doesn't appear to have the ears of a goat or horse, nor the legs of a goat, nor the extremely large penis associated with satyrs. There seems to be a little something on his back (though in this photo we can scarcely see it) that could be part of a small tail of some sort. If so, that would put him in the satyr category, albeit barely so, like Praxiteles' "Pouring Satyr." Otherwise I don't think that he fits the type at all.
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