Thursday, 4 May 2023

Viewing The Ancients At The National Archaeological Museum

No doubt, any museum of old rocks in Italy is going to have some amazing objects. The archaeological museum in Naples is no exception. Great carvings and mosaics around every corner.

The exterior of the place is also worth a gaze, a classic, neo-baroque terra-cotta cupcake.

More is more. The multilayered beauty of Artemis of Ephesus. Individual portrait busts of raggedy old men. Bravo for resisting marble botox.

A little inter-species erotica, Pan enjoying the company of a goat. Not sure about the reverse.

Mosaics are fun and so are hippos. Perfect combination! Doing some serious drilling to get the curls right.

A relaxing Hercules. The scale of this work emphasizes one thing. Do not mess with Hercules, no matter what his repose.

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