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"Janus, the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and endings, with Bellona, the goddess of war, who is also the sister, consort, friend or charioteer of Mars. Janus, acting with an eye on the past and the future, appeases the impulsive Bellona." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skulpturen_und_Plastiken_um_Schloss... translated with www.deepl.com/de/translator
Sculpture group in the Schönbrunn Garden
Nelson Mandela
Leider gibt es Politiker wie Nelson Mandela nicht mehr.
Obwohl er mehr als sein halbes Leben hinter Gitter verbracht hat, hat er versucht Südafrika zu vereinen, was ihm gelungen ist.
Er ist und war der große Politiker in Südafrika und er wird immer noch von allen verehrt.
Ich wünschte wir hätten mehr von diesen großen Politiker, vor allem die letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, dass wir mehr denn je, diese Art von Menschen in dieser Welt benötigen
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.
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The Arch of Janus (Arco di Giano) is the only quadrifrons (arches in all four sides) triumphal arch preserved in Rome. It was set up at a crossroads at the northeastern limit of the Forum Boarium, close to the Velabrum, over the Cloaca Maxima drain that went from the Forum to the River Tiber.
It was built in the early 4th century CE, using spolia, i.e. material from earlier buildings, including bricks, together with pottery shards, and was covered with white marble, also from earlier buildings. The exact significance of the arch is poorly understood: it is thought to have been a boundary marker rather than a triumphal arch. An alternative view is that it was built to provide shelter for the traders at the Forum Boarium cattle market. Some researchers believe it was dedicated to Constantine I or Constantius II and was known as the Arch of the deified Constantine. It is 16 meters high and 12 meters wide.
Each pier of the arch has two rows of three niches. It seems logical that statues would have filled these 48 niches but none has been identified. The stone at the apex of the central arch on the north side is thought to depict Minerva, although others believe it may be Palladium. Its current name probably dates from the Renaissance or later, and was not used to describe it in classical antiquity. The name is derived from the structure's four-fronted, four-arched configuration. The ancient Roman god Janus (Ianus Quadrifons), was sometimes depicted with four faces and there are Janus-related structures mentioned in historic descriptions of ancient Rome.
In the Middle Ages, the Frangipane family transformed the building into a fortress, and so it survived intact until 1830. Then, the attic and top were torn down because they were erroneously believed to not belong to the original structure. However, there is a staircase within the north-west pier which would have given access to this top floor. Iron pins originally held together the marble blocks but were removed in the Middle Ages, leading to the monument's present pock-marked look. Fragments of the dedicatory inscription are still preserved inside the nearby church of San Giorgio in Velabro.
The arch has not been accessible to the public since the explosion of a bomb in front of San Giorgio in Velabro, on the night of 27 July 1993. It is the one monument of the Forum Boarium that remains unrestored. The Arch of Malborghetto, just outside Rome, also includes the remnants of a former Roman quadrifons arch. [Wikipedia]
Two faces in a knot in a hedge.
The one looking to the rigth is okay-ish - looked better with the bare eye than on the picture.
The other face (long nose, eyebrow) looking to the left upper corner needs a bit.
The size - even with negative space below 2"
For the pareidolia theme on today's Macro Monday.
(also known as Blue Eyes of Janus)
Janis ne s’appelle pas Janis, mais l’on s’en fout car elle est devenue Janis pour le bon plaisir de l’auteur de cette photographie, une fillette en rose qui court le long de ce haut mur de vingt-quatre mètres de hauteur, Janis fera le tour des ruines du temple de Janus sous le regard de ses parents qui ignoreront l’interdiction de s’approcher du temple, du risque de prendre sur la gueule une pierre vieille de deux-mille ans, deux-mille ans qui ne sont rien, seulement quatre-vingt générations de vingt-cinq ans, quatre-vingt personnes que l’on pourrait connaître par leur nom, toutes rassemblées dans la grande salle à manger où l’auteur de cette photographie dîne en pensant à cette histoire, en appréciant les saveurs subtiles des plats servis, en appréciant le bouquet du Mercurey produit si près du temple dit de Janus,
au fil du blog Éléments du monde ordinaire vous trouverez en contrepoint de quoi lire et imaginer.
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The Arch of Janus is a tetrapylon triumphal arch, also known as a quadrifron. It’s the only remaining structure of its kind in Rome.
It’s located at the edges of the Forum Boarium, a market area of ancient Rome. The arch was constructed during the 4th-century using materials from older buildings in the city. It’s known as the Arch of Janus but has nothing to do with the Roman god of gates. The arch was never given this name during antiquity. The name likely came from the Latin word ianus during the Renaissance period and derived from its four-fronted, four-arched configuration.
Many researchers believe the arch was more than likely dedicated to Emperor Constantine or his son Constantius II. Others think that it’s not an actual triumphal arch, but rather a shelter for traders who worked the Forum Boarium market.
Forty-eight niches are located throughout the arch and were probably once filled with statues. During the Middle Ages, the arch was transformed into a fortress until 1830, when the medieval additions were removed and the original structure was restored. Despite these efforts, the attic and other portions of the top of the structure were erroneously removed. They were thought to have been non-original additions to the arch.
Since 1993, when a bomb exploded in front of a nearby church, the inside of the arch cannot be accessed. [Atlas Obscura]
Another view of the Janus Head Sculpture downtown.
There are two heads...one faces east and one faces west...to remind us that we must look to the past as well as the future.
"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."
—Carson McCullers
Two Anonymous protestors in their Guy Fawkes masks (made famous in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's graphic novel, and later a film, V For Vendetta) on Middle Meadow Walk. I thought the two being back to back like that reminded me of the Classical two-faced deity, Janus.
Again heavy winds in Haarlem...almost impossible to keep the tripod stable...
All no problem voor the old Janus in the Spaarne river, Haarlem
The "Temple of Janus" is a cultic structure of Romano-Celtic design located in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France, to the North-West of the ancient city of Augustodunum.
The temple lies in the centre of a vast sanctuary, whose extent and complexity was revealed by excavations conducted from 2013 to 2016, on a site whose history goes back to Neolithic times, and which experienced an important phase of monumental constructions in the 1st Century AD. The temple was abandoned at the onset of the Early Middle Ages, and its structures were later reused in the fashioning of a Medieval defensive work. The temple has retained two sides of its square cella, at a height of over 20 metres, as well as vestiges of its ambulatory and side structure foundations. The temple's supposed dedication to the Roman god Janus is not based on any archaeological or historic fact, and the deity that was venerated in the temple is unknown.
The Temple of Janus was included on the first list of protected historical French monuments, established in 1840. (Wikipedia)