So. Here is the first in a series of posts about my Classics/Art History Study Abroad to Europe.
1: Museum Favorites
I've been kind and edited the pieces/art/pictures that may have unseemly depictions or exposure, despite the Laocoon and the Nike being incredibly fantastic and worth inclusion in this favorites post.
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| Achilles and Ajax playing dice : Rome |
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| Raphael's School of Athens: Vatican |
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| The Dying Goth: Vatican |
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| Alexander vs. Darius mosaic |
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| Atlas! |
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| part of a Roman fresco : Greece |
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| Heracles bossing a centaur: Florence |
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| epic bronze chimera... thing: Florence |
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| Copy of Michelangelo's David (I did see the original, but that gallery didn't allow pictures - this was a replacement when the original was moved indoors for preservation from pigeons and pollution) |
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| "Agamemnon's" gold burial mask: Athens |
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| Zeus throwing lighting bold / Poseidon throwing spear : Athens |
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| Bronze boy riding horse: Athens |
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| Epic Greek black figure vase: Athens |
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| Pericles! |
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| Egyptian clay piece: Berlin |
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| Socrates |
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| Homer |
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| Hermes / Mercury |
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| Painting of the "classics" : Paris |
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| Bronze Hermes / Mercury feet : Paris |
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| Bronze Roman copy of Greek Marble Ares / Mars : Louvre |
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| Adonis - "handsomest man" |
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| Sphinx! : Louvre |
