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Nike ”the goddess of victory” at Konstakademin in Stockholm

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Botticelli c. 1483-1485, Birth of Venus

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Venus At Her Birth Attired By The Three Graces, 1799.

Benjamin West (American, 1738-1820)

Oil on canvas

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Details from Ulysses and the Sirens, 1909.

Herbert James Draper (British, 1863-1920)

Oil on canvas

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#cutest family ever

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matteo martari photographed by milli_madeleine (10/28/19)

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Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) “Still Life” (1866) Oil on canvas Located in the National Gallery of Art, Washingon DC, United States

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New favourite photo: Storm in Chania, Crete, Greece by d_fordesign.

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Homer, Iliad VI: why do you ask of my race? like the race of leaves, such is that of men. the wind lets fall leaves to the ground, then the forest blooms and grows and springtime comes. such is the race of men, in its beginnings and in its ends.

Alice Oswald, Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad (2011)

Vergil, Aeneid VI: young men put on their pyres by their own parents: much like leaves fall in the forest, stricken by autumn’s first frost

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Waves

Orlando Museum of Art, July 05,2016//ig: g.hsu07

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The Acropolis 200 years ago, as seen by chroniclers Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi. The monument has changed dramatically, as both structure and symbol, since this time.

“The event…that most directly accounts for the way the Acropolis looks today was its excavation and destruction by archaeologists during the 19th century. The decision was made to erase essentially all material remains from the present back to the fifth century B.C. The medieval and Ottoman buildings that [artist Edward] Dodwell depicted in his artwork were completely destroyed, and thousands of tons of material, including all the topsoil, were dumped over the side of the Acropolis. In other words, approximately 2,000 years of human history were erased in the name of “restoring” the Acropolis to what it looked like during the classical period. When the archaeologists had finished, for the first time in its history the Acropolis was no longer an organic part of the city of Athens.”

What Does the Acropolis Mean? A Conversation with Historian Thomas Gallant Gallant speaks at the Getty Villa on January 21 as part of the programming for the exhibition Greece’s Enchanting Landscape: Watercolors by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi, which features the views shown here and many more. All images: The Packard Humanities Institute.