Little did I know that one of the largest ferris wheels in the world (at that time) was along the Thames in London. And little did I realize that I was about to walk right past it. The picture is fuzzy due to my shaky hands, wind, and low light conditions. Sorry!!!
Little did I know that one of the largest ferris wheels in the world (at that time) was along the Thames in London. And little did I realize that I was about to walk right past it. The picture is fuzzy due to my shaky hands, wind, and low light conditions. Sorry!!!
One of my favorite non-museum photos of my trip. I managed to snap this picture on the way to a restaurant in London. It was dusk so the picture came out very dark, but the sign of the Underground hanging overhead was perfect.
A bust of a Greek man in bronze. One thing that few people realize is that most of the "Greek" statuary we have is actually roman. The Greeks typically created sculptures using a lost-wax casting technique. The resulting piece was made of bronze. The Romans, being the warriors they are, melted down all that valuable bronze to make weapons. The sculptures were replaced with marble copies of the original bronze figures.
A plaster cast of the famous Bust of Nefertiti. The real one is in the Altes Museum in Berlin. Even this replica is strikingly beautiful. Manchester Museum of History, Manchester, UK.
A greek statuette of a woman with child. I found this was interesting because of the lack of proportion in the child. Many artists in antiquity could not or did not represent children acurrately due to the different proportions involved. Instead, children and babies were represented as diminutive adults. Even in the renaissance period representations of this sort can be found.
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