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Described as a portrait of a Philosopher from 5th century. (Aphrodisias Museum )
The ancient city of Aphrodisias, once the capital of the province of Lydia, is located near the village of Geyre in the district of Karacasu . The history of the city can be traced back to the early bronze age and there is even clear evidence of a chalcolithic culture prior to the 3rd millennium B.C. The use of the name Aphrodisias began after the 3rd century B.C., in the Hellenistic period.
The wealth and cultural and political importance of the city is clearly attested by the size and magnificence of the buildings of which it is composed.The name Aphrodisias is derived from Aphrodite, the goddess of nature, beauty, love and plenty, and was one of the most famous cult centres of the goddess.
Aphrodisias was a center for the arts, specifically sculpture. The Aphrodisias School of Sculpture had a distinctive style and was very well circulated throughout the Greek and Roman world. Statues with corresponding signatures have been discovered from Spain to present day Germany and virtually everywhere in the Roman world.
The Aphrodisias Sculpting School was one of the most famous sculpting school in antiquity. Among the provocative pieces preserved today are statues of Aphrodite cradling a child like a loving mother; Hercules rippling his muscles; and a woman weeping, which symbolized the subjugation of the city by Rome. Any rich noblemen who donated money to the school was honored with a statue, and there are plenty of these, as well as some magnificent friezes and sarcophagi, in the museum.
The Aphrodisias sculpting school thrived for 600 years, and the high-quality marble for the sculptures was found in abundance in quarries only a few miles away. The sculptors, some scholars claim, were the world's the first true artists, meaning they didn't just copy other statues like many Greek and Roman sculptors; instead they made unique creations.
I met him at the Bluebird coffeeshop in Amsterdam and he immediately begin to talk to me about the meaning of love and 'god' money in the world and so on...
It has been a brief encounter with a really interesting person who surely is going to remain in my mind for a long time yet.....
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) - Le trouble du philosophe [The philosophers trouble] aka Le repos du philosophe or Mannequins on the seashore (1922). In the collection of the Museo del Novecento, Milan.
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
― Samuel Beckett
seen this today morning while going to office. Didn't had my DSLR with me. hence captured with mobile resulted lower quality.
He took the business of having his picture taken very seriously; such an interesting face.
Guebwiller, France
The Philosopher III
Over the clouds she recognizes:
This is my Head
HKD
Der Philosoph auf dem Gipfel
Mit seiner Trophäe über den Wolken angekommen
erkennt er: Das ist mein eigener Kopf.
HKD
Die Beute des Philosophen ist sein eigenes Ego.
Er könnte auch ausrufen: Tat tvam asi
Der Gipfel der Selbstkonfrontation und der Selbsterkenntnis zeigt gleichzeitig, wie unbewusst das naive Ego-Bewusstsein ist und war.
Ich weiß, dass ich nichts wusste. Ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß.
(Frei nach Sokrates :-))
HKD
These are the last photos of my project Liberty Plaza, for now.
It was a great project and really fun to build ! I hope you enjoyed the photos as much as I did ! If you missed any, here.is the set containing all the photos of this project.
Thanks for your support !
Now it's time to move on to other great projects like:
-another Clone Wars story
-more mechs
-a Force Unleashed MoC
and the one project I am most exited about
A Lego Mass Effect RPG group ! Please, support this project by telling us (Agent "Wash" Washington and me) if you are interested, here.
EDIT: The group has been created. It's called N7 Special Forces. Feel free to join !
Thanks again for you support !
The Pesquet's Parrot is a highly specialised frugivore, feeding almost exclusively on a few species of figs. Flowers and nectar have also been reported. At least in parts of its range, it is seasonally nomadic in response to the availability of fruits. The bare part of the head is presumably an adaption to avoid feather-matting from sticky fruits. Little is known about its breeding habits in the wild, but the two eggs are laid in a nest in a large, hollow tree. It is typically seen in pairs or groups up to 20 individuals. In flight it alternates between rapid flapping and short glides.
~ Wikipedia