Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this marble torso, in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin.
Today's photo with the most hits: detail from Bernini's sculpture of Apollo and Daphne, Borghese Gallery, Rome.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: detail from the Abduction of Persephone, by Bellini; Galleria Borghese, Rome.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this sculpture from Aphrodisias, Turkiye. Headless torso of a seated figure (of some status).
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: Asclepius, in the archaeological museum of Antalya (statue from the ancient city of Perge).
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this statue of Asclepius, from Perge. It's home is the Archaeological Museum, Antalya.
Today’s photo with the most hits: this shot taken in the Carmelite Priory Church, Mdina, Malta.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: this detail from the fireplace in the long gallery at Hardwick Hall. Poor justice has suffered somewhat from heavy-handed dusting - her sword and scales have been seriously damaged.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: the dove on the floor of the Unity Chapel, Coventry Cathedral.
Dora-Mittelbau photos are still dominating the chart, so I scrolled past. Thus, today’s Flickr photo with the most hits is this fabulous Bernini sculpture in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
A young and virile Aeneas is fleeing Troy, carrying his debilitated father. Bernini achieves wondrous things in his rendering of their contrasting flesh.
Amaze of amaze...
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits shows Apollo in pursuit of Daphne. The marble sculpture was created by Bernini in the early 17th CE, and can be seen in the Galleria Borghese, Rome. Apollo runs hell for leather, his skimpy drape billowing out behind him in the slipstream. In front, just out of reach, Daphne begins her transformation - you can see her raised hand is sprouting twigs and leaves.
Apollo lusted after Daphne, who spurned him. Before he could catch and rape her, her father, Peneus, (at his fiercely independent daughter’s request) turned her into a laurel tree. If her mother had been granted a say, it may have been Apollo’s penis that was transformed into a laurel twig. However, this is Greek myth - and such outcomes don’t feature.
In mitigation of his offence, Apollo made the laurel the sacred unto himself: the wood was used for his lyre, and the circlets of victors in competitions, were of laurel.
Which is about as much as could be hoped from the God.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits - reclining female nude, in marble. You can see it (and other fabulous sculptures) in the Mestrovic Gallery in Split, Croatia.
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Augustus, Emperor of Rome.
“Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.” - taken from the Lives of the Caesars, by Suetonius.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits - this marble copy, by Vanelli, of an original bronze sculpture - the Spinario.
Today’s Flickr Photo with the most hits -
This interior shot of the great marble entrance hall at Keddleston Hall