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Winged Victory Of Samothrace
The ''Winged Victory of Samothrace'', or the ''Niké of Samothrace'', is a Votive offering, votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic art, Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Nike (mythology), Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship's bow. The total height of the monument is including the Socle (architecture), socle; the statue alone measures . The sculpture is one of a small number of major Hellenistic sculpture, Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman sculpture, Roman copies. ''Winged Victory'' has been exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884. Greece is seeking the Repatriation (cultural property), return of the sculpture. Discovery and restorations In the 19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoire De Samothrace - Musee Du Louvre - 20190812
Victoire (French, 'victory') or Victoires may refer to: People * Victoire of France (1733–1799), daughter of King Louis XV of France * Victoire Babois (1760–1839), French poet and writer of elegies * Victoire Conroy (1819–1866), a disliked childhood companion of the future Queen Victoria * Victoire Doutreleau (born 1934), French fashion model * Victoire Du Bois (born 1988/89), French actress * Victoire de Rohan (1743–1807), Princess of Guéméné, French noblewoman and governess of the children of King Louis XVI of France * Victoire Ferrari (1785–1823), French pianist and singing teacher *Victoire Jasmin (1955–2023), French politician * Victoire Jean-Baptiste (1861–1923), Haitian politician de facto as mistress of President Florvil Hyppolite * Victoire Léodile Béra (1824–1900), French novelist, journalist and feminist * Victoire Rasoamanarivo (1848–1894), a woman from Madagascar who devoted her life to the poor and the sick, beatified in 1989 * Victoire Thivisol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Sculpture
The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Sculpture of Ancient Greece, Greek sculpture. Many examples of even the most famous Greek sculptures, such as the ''Apollo Belvedere'' and ''Barberini Faun'', are known only from Roman Empire, Roman Imperial or Hellenistic "copies". At one time, this imitation was taken by art historians as indicating a narrowness of the Roman artistic imagination, but, in the late 20th century, Roman art began to be reevaluated on its own terms: some impressions of the nature of Greek sculpture may in fact be based on Roman artistry. The strengths of Roman sculpture are in portraiture, where they were less concerned with the ideal than the Greeks or Ancient Egyptians, and produced very characterful works, and in narrative relief scenes. Examples of Roman sculpture are abundantly preserved, in total contrast to Roman painting, which was very widely practiced but has almost all been lost. Latin literature, Latin and some ancient Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escalier Daru
The Escalier Daru (Daru Staircase), also referred to as Escalier de la Victoire de Samothrace, is one of the largest and most iconic interior spaces of the Louvre Palace in Paris, and of the Louvre Museum within it. Named after Pierre, Count Daru, a minister of Napoleon, and initially designed in the 1850s by Hector-Martin Lefuel as part of Napoleon III's Louvre expansion, it received its current Stripped Classical appearance in the early 1930s. Since 1883, its focal point has been the ''Winged Victory of Samothrace'', one of the highlights of the Louvre's collections. Background The Escalier Daru is the last in a series of increasingly monumental staircases built to serve this area of the Louvre building. In 1722, as the old Queen Mother's apartment on the ground floor of the Petite Galerie was being prepared to be the residence of Mariana Victoria of Spain the betrothed of Louis XV, a staircase was built to lead directly into the Salon Carré on the upper level, dubbed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Ravaisson-Mollien
Jean Gaspard Félix Lacher Ravaisson-Mollien (; ; 23 October 1813 – 18 May 1900) was a French philosopher, 'perhaps France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the nineteenth century'.Sinclair (2019), p. 1 He was originally and remains more commonly known as Félix Ravaisson.Sinclair (2016), p. 1 His 'seminal' 'key' work was ''De l'habitude'' (1838), translated in English as ''Of Habit''.Carlisle (2010), p. 125Grosz (2013), p. 219 Ravaisson's philosophy is in the tradition of French spiritualism, which was initiated by Pierre Maine de Biran (1766–1824) with the essay "The Influence of Habit on the Faculty of Thinking" (1802). However, Ravaisson developed his doctrine as what he called ' spiritual realism' and – according to Ravaisson scholar Mark Sinclair – can be thought of as founding 'the school of contingency'.Sinclair (2019), p. 9–10 His most well known and influential successor was Henri Bergson, with whom the tradition can be seen to end d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Benndorf
Otto Benndorf (13 September 1838 – 2 January 1907) was a German-Austrian archaeologist who was a native of Greiz, Principality of Reuss-Greiz. He was the father of physicist Hans Benndorf (1870–1953). Life and career He studied under Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868), Otto Jahn (1813–1869) and Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876) at the University of Bonn. Later, he worked as an instructor at Schulpforta, where one of his students was Friedrich Nietzsche. From 1864 to 1868 he was a member of a scientific expedition that toured Italy (Rome), Sicily, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1868 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Göttingen under the guidance of Friedrich Wieseler (1811–1892). In 1869 he became an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Zurich, relocating to University of Munich in 1871 and to Prague the following year. With Alexander Conze (1831–1914), he took part in the second Austrian archaeological expedition to Samothrace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demetrius I Of Macedon
Demetrius I Poliorcetes (; , , ; ) was a Macedonian Greek nobleman and military leader who became king of Asia between 306 and 301 BC, and king of Macedon between 294 and 288 BC. A member of the Antigonid dynasty, he was the son of its founder, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, and his wife Stratonice, as well as the first member of the family to rule Macedon in Hellenistic Greece. In 307 BC, Demetrius successfully ousted Cassander's governor of Athens and after defeating Ptolemy I at the Battle of Salamis (306 BC) he gave his father the title of ''basileus'' ("king") over a land spanning from the Aegean Sea to the Middle East. He acquired the title ''Poliorcetes'' ("the besieger") after the unsuccessful siege of Rhodes in 305. While Antigonus I and Demetrius planned a revival of the Hellenic League with themselves as dual hegemons, a coalition of the diadochi; Cassander, Seleucus I, Ptolemy I, and Lysimachus defeated the two at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, in which Antigon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloïs Hauser
Alois (Latinized ''Aloysius'') is an Old Occitan form of the name Louis. Modern variants include ''Aloïs'' ( French), ''Aloys'' (German), ''Alois'' (Czech), ''Alojz'' ( Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian), '' Alojzy'' (Polish), '' Aloísio'' ( Portuguese, Spanish, Italian), '' Alajos'' ( Hungarian), and ''Aloyzas'' ( Lithuanian). People called Alois/Aloys * Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist * Alois Arnegger (1879–1963), Austrian painter * Alois Berla (1826–1896), Austrian actor and playwright * Alois Biach (1849–1918), Austrian physician and medical writer * Alois Brunner (1912–2001), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp war criminal * Alois Carigiet (1902–1985), Swiss illustrator * Alois Dryák (1872–1932), Czech architect * Alois Eliáš (1890–1942), Czech general and politician * Alois Estermann, senior officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard who was murdered in his apartment * Alois Hába, Czech composer * Alois Hitler (1837–190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Conze
Alexander Christian Leopold Conze (10 December 1831 – 19 July 1914) was a German archaeologist, who specialized in ancient Greek art. He was a native of Hanover, and studied at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin. In 1855 he obtained his doctorate at Berlin as a student of Eduard Gerhard. In 1863 he became an associate professor at the University of Halle,Biography of Alexander Conze In: (NDB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, , S. 348 and from 1869 to 1877, he served as a professor of archaeology at the |
Himation
A himation ( , ) was a type of clothing, a mantle (clothing), mantle or Wrap (clothing), wrap worn by ancient Greek men and women from the Archaic Greece, Archaic period through the Hellenistic period ( BC). It was usually worn over a Chiton (garment), chiton and/or peplos, but was made of heavier drape and played the role of a cloak or shawl. When the himation was used alone, without a chiton, it served both as a chiton and as a cloak. The himation was markedly less voluminous than the Roman toga. Many vase paintings depict women wearing a himation as a veil covering their faces. The himation continued into the Byzantine dress, Byzantine era as "iconographic dress" used in art and by the lower classes, worn by Christ, the Mary, mother of Jesus, Virgin Mary, and biblical figures. Origins While there are no physical remains of himation that have been recovered, it is known that himation was worn by Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks as early as the 6th century BCE. Through differe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Prévost De Longpérier
Henry Adrien Prévost de Longpérier (21 September 1816, Paris – 14 January 1882) was a 19th-century French numismatist, archaeologist and curator. Biography Adrien was the son of Henry Simon Prevost Longpérier, a commander of the National Guard who was later mayor of Meaux from 1840 to 1848.T. Sarmant, ''Le cabinet des médailles de la Bibliothèque nationale 1661-1848'', Droz, 1994, (p. 286) In 1836, he entered the cabinet des médailles of the Bibliothèque royale (futur Bibliothèque nationale). Protected by Raoul-Rochette, he obtained the position of first employee in 1842. In 1840 he published a fundamental study of numismatics of Sassanid sovereigns, and devoted several years later to numismatics of the Arsacids. With baron Jean de Witte, he founded the . In 1856, after the departure of , Adrien de Longpérier took over the direction of the ' with Jean de Witte . From 1847 to 1870 he was curator of the antiquities department of the Louvre. In 1848 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulon
Toulon (, , ; , , ) is a city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera and the historical Provence, it is the prefecture of the Var (department), Var department. The Commune of Toulon has a population of 176,198 people (2018), making it France's 13th-largest city. It is the centre of an urban unit with 580,281 inhabitants (2018), the ninth largest in France by population. Toulon is the second largest French city by urban area on the Mediterranean coast after Marseille. Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making, and the manufacture of aeronautical equipment, armaments, maps, paper, tobacco, printing, shoes, and electronic equipment. The military port of Toulon is the major navy, naval centre on France's Mediterranean coast, home of the French aircraft carrier ''French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle'' and her battle group. The French Mediterranean Fleet is based in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
