Woman from Bern Simmental. Source: The Swiss national costumes of XVII – XIX century originals. Original recordings from the Swiss costume festival. Zurich 14 March 1896. Additional galleries of Switzerland costumes:… Read More
Ancient Greek mythology. The Sphinx was considered a demon of destruction and doom.
The scholars and writers on antiquities, up to the time of Winckelmann, apply the term Fauns to the human figures with tails and pointed ears, while they term the figures with goat’s legs sometimes Pans, at other times Satyrs.
Septimius Severus was born in Africa of Roman parents; he died at York in the year 211 a. D. after a severe illness at the age of sixty-six. This bust was found in the year 1776 on the Palatine Hill, in the part of the Palace of the Cæsars now occupied by the Villa Magnani.
Bust of a young and beardless satyr, distinguished, as usual, by the pointed ears of a goat, and by hair in front shaggy and rough, like that of the same animal.
This bust has been called that of a Maenad or Bacchante, an attribution which the comparison of other Bacchic types would seem fully to justify.
This bust has been explained as that of Adonis. The head-dress is essentially of Eastern origin, and the cap is analogous to that which is considered peculiar to the Phrygian and Persian races.
The distinguishing characteristic of the head of Apollo is the manner in which the hair is represented.
Head of Minerva. The hair, parted in the middle, is drawn back from the temples, after the manner usual in the representations of Minerva.
Minoan costume. Our Lady Of The Sports with male loincloth, Knossos. Chryselephantine Image of Goddess with male Loinclothing: Our Lady Of The Sports Views of Corset, Girdle and male loin… Read More
