Burial urn. Etruscan 7th or 6th century BCE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
photography
The Admiral’s House — re-staging power
Seaton Delaval Hall, Northumberland. Built for Admiral George Delaval in 1720. Darkroom reprint of my photo of 2012. A story of land, inheritance, entrepreneurial opportunity, the roots of local power in global interconnections – and quirky radical taste transformed into an archetype of architectural style. [Link] to a previous post. The Delaval family had owned…
Classical figuration
National Museum Athens. 1992.
Becoming stone
Figuration. Statue. Flint pebble rolled by the Storebaelt, Nyborg, Fyn. Titan Kronos, fearful of the prophecy that his children would overthrow him, ate them whole upon their birth. Until Rhea, his partner, gave Kronos a stone that he mistook for the infant god Zeus. Having returned from Mount Ida where he grew to maturity, Zeus…
Statue – figuration – physiognomy
Roman, 3rd Century CE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Statue – at prayer
“Man at prayer”. Egypt. 13th dynasty c1700 BCE. Glyptotek, Copenhagen.