A Secret from Above by Hiplyte Mouline [1872] : 無料・フリー素材/写真
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| 説明 | A Secret from On High depicts a life-size adolescent nude Mercury (Hermes) whispering a secret to a herm - a pillar topped by a bust of Dionysos/Bacchus or perhaps himself - knowing that it will never repeat what he tells it.A Herma, herm or herme is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. The form originated in Ancient Greece, and was adopted by the Romans, and revived at the Renaissance in the form of term figures and Atlantes.In ancient Greece the statues functioned as a form of apotropaic and were placed at crossings, country borders and boundaries as protection. Before his role as protector of merchants and travelers, Hermes was a phallic god, associated with fertility, luck, roads and borders. His name comes from the word herma (plural hermai) referring to a square or rectangular pillar of stone, terracotta, or bronze; a bust of Hermes' head, usually with a beard,] sat on the top of the pillar, and male genitals adorned the base. The hermai were used as boundary markers on roads and borders. In Athens, they were placed outside houses as apotropes for good luck.Hippolyte Alexandre Julien Moulin, sometimes given as Julien-Hippolyte Moulin or Hypolite Moulin, (1832–1884) was a 19th century French sculptor. Moulin, a shopkeeper's son, entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1855 but was unable to afford to continue the lessons and had to become a language teacher in Paris to support himself. He subsequently studied with Auguste-Louis-Marie Ottin and with Antoine-Louis Barye.A Lucky Find at Pompeii is probably Moulin's best-known work. A life-size bronze version, signed and dated 1863, was exhibited and won a medal at the Salon of 1864; the same year it was purchased by the State for 7,000 francs; in 1867, it was included at the Exposition Universelle. Part of the Muse du Luxembourg collection during the nineteenth century, and [subsequently exhibited] in the Louvre. Reviewing the Salon of 1864, the critic Lon Lagrange remarked that all the best statues of that year were balanced on one foot. While certain of these works, such as Falguire's Winner of the Cockfight [which today stands on a pedestal alongside Moulin's Lucky Find in the Muse d'Orsay], adopted the pose of Giambologna's Mercury, Moulin's figure was inspired by the famous antique Dancing Faun from Pompeii (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples). [Another statue which uses an almost identical pose is the American Frederick MacMonnies' female nude, Bacchante and Infant Faun (1895), which caused considerable controversy when it was installed at the Boston Public Library. Moulin won further Salon medals in 1867 and 1869, and another at the Exposition Universelle, 1878.His other works include Victoria Mars (plaster exhibited at the Salon of 1872) and A Secret from On High (Secret d'en Haut) (plaster 1873; marble 1875, now also in the Musée d'Orsay alongside other marble statues.)Moulin spent his last few years in a rest home for the mentally ill.www.p-synd.com/moulin.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Moulin Posing the Question of how the future will judge Art at the zeitgeist of the 21st century www.flickr.com/photos/aforum/collections/72157625299189937/ |
| 撮影日 | 2008-06-06 02:39:31 |
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| 開放F値 | f/2.7 |