wandering around, I find myself in the main entrance hall and decide to head up
and I notice this lovely young lady
She is a caryatid. I quote from wiki
A caryatid (/kæriˈætɪd/; Greek: Καρυάτις, plural: Καρυάτιδες) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatidesliterally means "maidens of Karyai", an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: "As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants"
the hand is outstretched…sadly disfigured fingers
Solidly patrician figures…very very classically beautiful, just look at that profile…and that enchanting lower lip.
now you can see the shapely fingers..
People have been touching her, you can see her feet and toes are all disfigured.
She dates back to Roman times, AD 14-170 and was found near the Via Appia outside Rome.
I move on up…
and see this other statue
the fingers look strange, bit fat and strangely thin
this hand looks ok
bit bland…not much character, is there>
not that impressive
the clothes also arent that well sculpted.
the feet are more interesting though, more natural.
hmmm, quite curios, these two statues…one is brilliant while the other is barely pedestrian…
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