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"Western Civilization"
sculptor: C. Paul Jennewein (1933)
Left to right
Eos, Nous, Adonis, Hippomenes, Eros, lion, Aphrodite, Zeus, Demeter, Triptolemus, Ariadne, Theseus, Minotaur, Python
The western pediment features fourteen Greek deities and mythological figures. Jennewein's polychrome sculptures of painted terra-cotta figures are the only sculptural group to adorn any of the museum's eight pediments.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art
also known as: the "Great Greek Garage" & "Parthenon on the Parkway"
architects: firms of Horace Trumbauer & Zantzinger, Borie & Medary
building's plan & massing: Howell Lewis Shay (Trumbauer)
detail & perspective drawing: Julian Abele (Trumbauer)
Masonic cornerstone ceremony: Mayor Thomas B. Smith (1919)
A collection of bronze griffins adorn the top of the building. In the 1970s, the museum adopted the griffin as it's symbol. In antiquity the griffin was known for guarding knowledge, treasure and priceless possessions as well as symbols of divine power and a guardians of the divine.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art - Main Building
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway (West end)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
French collectors card in the series 'Portrait de Stars; L'encyclopédie du Cinéma' by Edito Service, 1993. Photo: Collection Christophe L. Irene Papas in Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964).
Irene Papas (1926) is a Greek actress of international fame. In a career spanning more than fifty years, she starred in over seventy films, including such classics as The Guns of Navarone and Zorba the Greek. Papas also portrayed ancient Greek heroines as Helen in The Trojan Women, Clytemnestra in Iphigenia, Electra and Antigone.
Irene Papas (Greek Ειρήνη Παππά) was born as Eiríni Lelékou in Chilimodion, outside Corinth in Greece in 1926. At 12, she enrolled in a dramatic school. She spent her first professional years as a singer-dancer in stage reviews and as a radio vocalist In 1943 she married director Alkis Papas. Four years later the marriage ended in a divorce. She kept his name. Papas rose to stardom acting in Greek films as the drama Hamenoi angeloi/Fallen Angels (Nikos Tsiforos, 1948) and Nekri politeia/Dead City (Frixos Iliadis, 1952). In Italy, she played in the crime comedy Le Infedeli/Unfaithfuls (Mario Monicelli, Steno, 1953) with Gina Lollobrigida, the American-Italian Film Noir The Man from Cairo (Ray Enright, 1954) starring George Raft, and the epic adventures Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (Riccardo Freda, 1954) featuring Gianna Maria Canale, and Attila, Flagello di Dio/Attila (Pietro Francisci, William Witney, 1954) with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren. The next stop was Hollywood, where Papas appeared for MGM in the big-budget western Tribute to a Bad Man (Robert Wise, 1956) as the love interest of James Cagney. In Athens, she was trained in the classics of Greece's Golden Age. She played all the major tragic stage roles, including Medea and Electra. In addition, she was active in the contemporary productions put on by the Greek Popular Theatre in the late 1950s. She also featured in the film Bouboulina (Kostas Andritsos, 1959) about the Greek heroine of 1821 (when Greek fought the Turks). Papas became best known to international filmgoers for her portrayals of gutsy resistance fighter Maria Pappadimos in the major box-office hit Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961); the widow in Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis, 1964); and the wife of Yves Montand in the political thriller Z (Costa-Gravas, 1968), which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 1969. In between, she starred in film adaptations of the classic Greek tragedies Antigoni/Antigone (George Tzavellas, Dinos Katsouridis, 1961) and Ilektra/Electra (Michael Cacoyannis, 1962), and she made her Broadway debut in 'That Summer, That Fall' (1967).
Irene Papas is an occasional singer. In 1969, she recorded 11 songs of Mikis Theodorakis, for the album Irene Papas Songs of Theodorakis. Papas and Theodorakis had worked together in 1964 on Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek. In 1971 she contributed to a song of the concept album 666 of the Greek rock band Aphrodite's Child, with singer Demis Roussos and Vangelis Papathanassiou, who later became an Oscar-winning composer. With Vangelis, she also recorded 'Odes' (1976), containing eight Greek folk songs, and 'Rapsodies' (1986), an electronic rendition of seven Byzantine liturgical hymns. The songs and hymns were re-arranged by Vangelis. Both records have gained the status of classical music in Greece and are very popular around the Greek Orthodox Easter. In the cinema, she appeared as Catherine of Aragon in Anne of the Thousand Days (Charles Jarrott, 1969), opposite Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold. She also delivered award-winning performances in the ambitious Euripides adaptations directed by Michael Cacoyannis, playing Helen in The Trojan Women (1972) opposite Katharine Hepburn and Vanessa Redgrave, and Clytemnestra in Iphigenia (1977). In 1976, she starred opposite Anthony Quinn in Mohammad, Messenger of God/The Message (Moustapha Akkad, 1976) about the origin of Islam, and the message of Mohammad. With Quinn, she reunited in Lion of the Desert (Moustapha Akkad, 1982). Other interesting films were the Italian biopic, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli/Christ Stopped at Eboli (Francesco Rosi, 1979) about prominent anti-fascist author Carlo Levi (Gian-Maria Volonte), and the Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptations Erendira (Ruy Guerra, 1983), and Cronaca di una Morte Annunciata/Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Francesco Rosi, 1987) starring Rupert Everett and Ornella Muti. Her last film appearances were as Christian Bale’s mother in Captain Corelli's Mandolin (John Madden, 2001), and as a tourist on a cruise ship in Um Filme Falado/A Talking Picture (Manoel de Oliveira, 2003) with Catherine Deneuve. In 2002, she was named Europe's woman, a title given to women who offer a lot to European civilization. In her speech, she sang a Greek folklore song. According to IMDb, she has no intention of returning to Greece to play in the theatre, because she has suffered from continuous negative criticisms. Irene Papas lives in Greece, Spain, and Italy. In 2018 it was announced she had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for the past five years. Irene Papas is the aunt of director-producer Manousos Manousakis and actor Aias Manthopoulos.
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Had a mis-judgment the other week ….First one in ages.
I fancied getting out of town for a bit .So I headed for the Moors and a wooded river valley I like very much . Its has a lovely walk I know it well.
Park up by the pub just before you get to the bridge.
Walk upstream on one side , stop and rest when you get to the little footbridge .
Then cross over the river and walk back downstream till you get back to the big bridge.
Over to the pub. …...hey presto! You're back to where you parked the car.
I cant make up my mind as to the exact cause of my misjudgement ….
Is it just that I'm getting older and slower ..
Did I dilly and dally to long taking photos …(could be got new camera to play with)
Maybe it was later in the year than I usually go ,so there was less daylight …
Probably a little of each.
Anyways the resulting misjudgement in timing ,
meant I didn't make it out of the woods before dark. T'is a twilightless , skyless world ,
under the cover of trees in the bottom of a steep sided river valley .
Neck cricking horizons rob you of all sunrise and set.
No time to adjust as day plunges you into straight into night.
The darkness is real dark …...and it comes real fast .
Damn it maxxxi you idiot to get yourself into such a situation ….
Still cant stay here ! nothing to be done ,other than ,
try to wend your way carefully back to the car in the dark .
The sound of running water and the light from a small pocket torch was a blessing...
however the shadows it cast and the sound of wildlife turning to monsters wasn't !!
So you can imagine my relief when I saw , coppery shards of light downstream.
Reflections in the inky black waters of the river ,from a bright light outside the pub .
Yeah Civilization!!!
My heart rejoiced for a few minutes in knowing that it wasn't alone in the dark .................which I thought a little strange ,as the whole point of“going for a walk thing” in the first place was...
Because I felt the need to distance myself ... from civilization!!
auto organization lead to evolution
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taken in Ko Lanta - Krabi - Thailand
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Workers who put bricks together to make buildings, something that signifies civilization.
In Bangladesh, they earn a living of 250-350tk(3-4$)/day.
Chittagong,Bangladesh
High Voltage. ©Copyright 2017 Karlton Huber Photography - all rights reserved.
I don't think I need to explain this one.
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"Western Civilization"
sculptor: C. Paul Jennewein (1933)
Left to right
Eos, Nous, Adonis, Hippomenes, Eros, lion, Aphrodite, Zeus, Demeter, Triptolemus, Ariadne, Theseus, Minotaur, Python
The western pediment features fourteen Greek deities and mythological figures. Jennewein's polychrome sculptures of painted terra-cotta figures are the only sculptural group to adorn any of the museum's eight pediments.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art
also known as: the "Great Greek Garage" & "Parthenon on the Parkway"
architects: firms of Horace Trumbauer & Zantzinger, Borie & Medary
building's plan & massing: Howell Lewis Shay (Trumbauer)
detail & perspective drawing: Julian Abele (Trumbauer)
cornerstone ceremony: Mayor Thomas B. Smith (1919)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art - Main Building
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway (West end)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Created for the Our Daily Challenge topic:
AGED or THE AGE OF... is the topic for Sunday ~ June 30th, 2024
*The Age of Western Civilization.
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In a class of civilizations, if we're fortunate, the most laid-back one triumphs.
Lightbox please.
(Happy 11-11-11 and hoping all veterans find peace)
Camera: Olympus Trip 35
Film: Ilfocolor Plus 100 (expired)
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A decomposing Irrawaddy dolphin on Kuakata beach. This playful creature often gets tangled in fishing nets and drown. Fishermen just throw them away in the sea as the local market does not have any demand for dolphin meat. Unplanned fishing and little understanding about nature conservation of the fishermen in Kuakata is leading to a declining number of Irrawaddy dolphin.