Πέμπτη 30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010

Anna meets a Geometric krater



Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue magazine, posing timidly in front of a Geometric krater.


The krater, originally used as a grave marker, is attributed to the Workshop of New York. More on the vase HERE.

Interestingly enough the krater’s image is not available on the Metropolitan Museum of Art webpage

Traditional meets ancient

The Gorgon



The Gorgon (1964)

Film's tagline A Monster With the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh Into Stone!

directed by Terence Fisher, starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Barbara Shelley

(more on the film HERE)

Hitler and the Discobolus




A rather bashful Adolf Hitler posing next to the Discobolus Palombara in the Munich Glyptothek.


The Discobolus Palombara, the first copy of this famous sculpture to have been discovered, was found in 1781. It is a first century AD copy of Myron's original bronze. Following its discovery at a Roman property of the Massimo family, the Villa Palombara on the Esquiline Hill, it was initially restored by Giuseppe Angelini; the Massimi installed it initially in their Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne and then at Palazzo Lancelotti. The Italian archaeologist Carlo Fea identified the sculpture as a copy from the original of Myron. It was instantly famous, though the Massimo jealously guarded access to it

In 1937 Adolf Hitler negotiated to buy it, and eventually succeeded in 1938, when Galeazzo Ciano, Minister of Foreign Affairs, sold it to him for five million lire, over the protests of Giuseppe Bottai, Minister of Education, and the scholarly community. It was shipped by rail to Munich and displayed in the Glyptothek; it was returned in 1948. It is now in the National Museum of Rome, displayed at the Baths of Diocletian.
(information via Wikipedia)


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Years later proof of another assassination attempt against Hitler comes to light...



Iconic embrace



Marilyn Monroe embracing the Discobolus

Tattooed Discobolus



Tattooed Discobolus on the cover of Time Out magazine, issue 722, July 30-Aug. 5, 2009

Τετάρτη 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010

Know thy self



Socrates, cigar box label, 1920’s

Barbie Medusa



A collector's item (more here)

Olympic Games posters


Stockholm Olympics (1956) poster




London Olympics (1948) poster

Hellas Promachos



Hellas (-Athena) defending culture.

Not even Captain Comet



Even Captain Comet could not defy the power of the 12 Eternals!
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Signs of the Times


 
Archbishop Damaskinos in front of the Parthenon, on the cover of Time, Oct. 1, 1945.





Former King Constantine with Parthenon frieze in the background, on the cover of Time, Apr. 28, 1967.

Star Trek



Star Trek magazine. Ancient Greek deities force Kirk and Spock on an odyssey of peril!
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Swissair poster



Swissair poster (1951) ill. by Henry Ott.

The Greek Gods Greek Yogurt


The Greek Gods. Experience the myth.

Visitez la Gréce


Éditions de l’Office Hellénique du Tourisme, 1930's poster

TWA poster

Proud of her two-dimensional vase

True Strange



True Strange magazine, October 1957 issue, ill. by T. Beecham
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Athena personified