Some etruscan art. This one comes from the Tomb of the Leopards in Tarquinia. You can see a man playing a double flute and another one a lyre. I love how colorful it is. Somehow it radiates life, even with the expressionless faces and the imperfect anatomy (look at the man playing the flute and how big his arms and legs are in comparison to his head).

I remember one of my teachers’s telling us about Etruscan’s funeral rites, as well as how they regarded death. I’ll try to find my notes and post them in the next days. Now I think I’m going back to translating.

Apollo Kassel. It’s assumed Pheidias was its sculptor, although we only conserve a Roman copy in marble, the original probably was in bronze. Pertains to the classical period, but still exhibits some archaic characteristics like the frontality or the position, one leg advanced and arms still.

On another note, maybe the original had in his hands a bow and a laurel. Which reminds me of one of Apollo’s epithet’s: κλυτότοξος, renowned archer.

Winged Victory of Samothrace, musée du Louvre.

I’ve always though this sculpture wouldn’t be as charming if it were complete. Please, pay attention to how the cloth defines her body, much more sensual than if she were nude.

The parthenon.