For #SpoliaSunday , the last marble from the temple of #Capitoline #Jupiter is in #SantaMariadellaPace in #Rome . This thread looks at a chapel you might well walk past, but which deserves attention for its #marble , its sculpture, and its #classicalreception .
So I just learned about Mt. Olympus amusement park in Wisconsin, and then on their website I saw this. Mind blown🤯
#ClassicalReception
For #EpigraphyTuesday , in an acceptably classicising script, we have possibly the most momentous piece of #classicalreception in #Rome , #SixtusIV 's foundation of what would become the #CapitolineMuseums . No #Christian triumph, but a hope that we might learn from the ancient past.
Dune's noble House Atreides take their name in the belief that they are direct descendants of Atreus, ancient Greek king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon, the Greek commander in the Trojan War. #classicalreception
#ClassicalReception Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii Musei in Comune Roma Musei Capitolini
A prominent figure in Roman Mannerism, Giuseppe Cesari, also known as Cavalier d'Arpino (1568-1640), was appointed in 1595 to decorate the room.
#Rome #Art #Art History
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Cleopatra VII has a hold in the imagination that has continued for millennia. Here she is imagined in the moments prior to her suicide.
🎨 Attributed to Jacopino del Conte ~ 1525–50
🏛 Galleria Borghese
Just because I can't wait to share the treasures of Bibliothèque BnF, here's an early #SpoliaSunday treat rich with #medieval #classicalreception . I like to imagine #Constantine 's rage as he was waved around to keep proper time in the choir of the #SainteChapelle in #Paris .
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Hercules and the Stymphalian Birds (c 1872) ~ Gustave Moreau
The sixth labour of Hercules was to rid Lake Stymphalia of the bronze-beaked birds that had a taste for human flesh…
With Athena’s help, the birds were scared to flight making them easy pickings.
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Definitive proof the Corinthian architectural order was developed for ancient electric lampposts right?
#classicalreception in Sydney
🤪Why? In Surrey?? Seriously?🙄🙀
Sea monster Scylla, a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, Aeneas.
Idiom 'between Scylla and Charybdis' = being forced to choose between 2 similarly dangerous situations
Choose your Home! #classicalreception The Classics Library 😵💫
When Germanicus dies in 19 CE while on political business, his wife Agrippina is reported to have taken up the procession of ashes for his return to Rome.
In this example of #ClassicalReception , Turner explores the topography of Rome while centring grief.
March 22&23 - talking in Sydney Art Gallery NSW on this fabulous painting (Jacques Blanchard’s #Mars & the #Vestal Virgin, 1637/8) & more #classicalreception from the collection “Sex & the city: Mars, the Vestal Virgin & the founding of Rome” - see below for tickets/streaming:
Busy putting together some images for an Europeana online exhibition ... #GreekBooks #WatchThisSpace #twitterstorians #bookhistory #classicalreception
