#blue grotto

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The Blue Grotto by August Kopisch

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Would you rather visit

Cathedral Cave, Hamilton, Bermuda 🇧🇲

The Marble Chapels, Aysén, Chile 🇨🇱

Blue Grotto, Capri, Italy 🇮🇹

Blue Grotto, Biševo, Croatia 🇭🇷

Melissani Cave, Kefalonia, Greece 🇬🇷

The Gasparee Caves, Gaspar Grande Island, Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹

Thunderball Grotto, Exuma Cays, Bahamas 🇧🇸

Gruto do Lago Azul, Bonito, Brazil 🇧🇷

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I started writing The Crystal Crux back in the early 1980s and thought it would be a small 100 page short story at most. As the years passed, however, and I worked on it more and more, expanding the tale, digging deeper into the characters and histories, the whole tale grew considerably.The ten-day adventure could not be confined to one book and 100 pages.The opportunity to self-publish arrived…

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Blue Grotto (Il-Qrendi, Malte)

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Two tailed merfolk in Capri's Blue Grotto

I need to talk about these two images of Capri’s Blue Grotto, both with two tailed merfolk. The lovely painting Fisherman and Mermaids in the Blue Grotto on Capri is by Italian painter Hermann David Salomon Corrodi and was originally posted by both @mermaidenmystic and @peaceinthestorm. Hat tip for @mermaidenmystic for including the German title of the painting, which helped with researching it.

The Blue Grotto is a sea cave on the coast of the island of Capri, at the Gulf of Naples, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It's famous for the blue colouring created by sunlight that illuminates it.

This painting is based on an 1835 trip Corrodi took to the Blue Grotto in Capri, and he made several versions of this scene. I found an article in German that talks about his creative process for this painting.

Ein Fischer und Meerjungfrauen in der Blauen Grotte auf Capri (Fisherman and Mermaids in the Blue Grotto on Capri)  by Italian painter Hermann David Salomon Corrodi. Between 1858 and 1905.

The drawing is from Lydia Schallenberg’s article about the recovery of four statues of Triton from the sea bed, and is an artist’s approximation of what the statues looked like. Like other versions of Triton in ancient art, it’s likely they had two tails. I find it fascinating that Corrodi gave his mermaids two tails, which is an unusual feature for merfolk to have.

The four statues rescued from the sea bottom are currently on display in the Casa Rossa in Anacaptri. Full post here.

Sources

“Römische Funde in Der Blauen Grotte Auf Capri.” Antike Welt, vol. 7, no. 1, 1976, pp. 63–63. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44431235.

Drawings from: Schallenberg, Lydia. (2015). The Sculptures of the Grotta Azzurra at Capri. Fresh Perspectives on Graeco-Roman Visual Culture. Fresh Perspectives on Graeco-Roman Visual Culture - Proceedings of an International Conference at the Humboldt-Universität, Q-Kolleg-2013, 02.09.2013 - 03.09.2013, Berlin, pp 87-98. 87-98. https://doi.org/10.18452/1402

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Inside the blue grotto Capri Italy