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mac_stone ([personal profile] mac_stone) wrote2009-01-30 10:38 pm
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[identity profile] eljaydaly.livejournal.com 2009-01-31 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
She's stunning.

[identity profile] bogwitch64.livejournal.com 2009-01-31 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
She is. I always wondered what her arms were doing. In light of elisem's last post, I'd like to imagine her flipping the bird. :)

[identity profile] mac-stone.livejournal.com 2009-01-31 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
They're almost certain she's either holding a comb and mirror, or an apple - those are the two standard period poses, as far as we've been able to reconstruct. :)

The scale is stunning, too.

[identity profile] bmlg.livejournal.com 2009-02-01 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
I can't post pictures, but here is my favourite Renaissance angel, a Della Robbia:
http://www.scultura-italiana.com/Galleria/Della%20Robbia%20Luca/imagepages/image2.html

I don't know what he's thinking, but he's much more alive than any other I've seen.
-Barbara

[identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com 2009-02-01 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
Why did only the arms get knocked off when everything else remained intact? I know, probably because they were where the stone was the thinnest.