Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts

Friday, July 25, 2025

The Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre (c. 200 BC)

The Winged Victory of Samothrace was discovered on the Greek island of Samothrace.

This is a very famous Greek original sculpture that was buried for centuries.

What a dynamic powerful pose. I saw this at the Louvre.

The Greek sculptor captured the goddess of victory landing on the prow of a war ship.



Incredible drapery and feathered wings. 

Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Hannah Arendt Square in the 19th Arrondissement of Paris

While visiting Paris, I was staying in the Hannah Arendt Square.

This I really appreciated.

I like her a lot, but she was v. much a product of her time.

Her political thought is very important; but her work vis-a-vis the Holocaust and the “banality of evil” (in her exposure to Eichmann’s trial) was more of an accident.