#Marble Hall

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Schloss Weißenstein, Pommersfelden, Bavaria, Germany,

Courtesy: Palace Reflection

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The Marble Saloon in Stowe House has been beautifully restored!

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Nymphenburg Palace - Munich, Bavaria, GERMANY

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View from the balcony for the orchestra into the Marble Hall of the Neues Palais.

Some Glimpses from Germany for your Weekend :)

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派生絵つめ１５ by アジさい

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Marble halls... fucking marble halls. Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

It all started with one Sam Claflin photoshoot at a country estate (ironically, the marble hall in question is not made of marble but alabaster, also it's an older photoshoot from 2019), then I used a marble hall in a story, then I started seeing marble halls in photographs (not unusual, I see many pics daily), and it became that thing that one suddenly sees everywhere.

Then I was struck with a realisation. At the end of Anne of the Island, when Anne accepts Gilbert's second proposal, he reminds her that she still has to wait for him to finish medical school. He adds that "even then there will be no diamond sunbursts and marble halls". Anne says that she doesn't want any sunbursts or marble halls, she just wants him, yadda yadda. Anne of Green Gables is one my most favourite things and Anne x Gilbert have been my most favourite ship for longer than some people who are on this site have been alive. And Anne's "I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you" is one of the best known and beloved quotes from the series! They have been with me all this time, THE MARBLE HALLS HAVE BEEN WITH ME ALL THIS TIME!

It was a marble hall? // Always has been.

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A Treasury of Great American Houses, 1970

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ladies and gentlemen... the marionette quintet has been reduced to marbles! how could this be?!

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stuff that makes me happy but its pins that i bought for my lanyard 💜✌️

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my intro i guess; a couple collages of things i like 🦠🦠

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The Ancient Roman Statue of Athena Emerges After Nearly 300 Years in Hiding

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat’s estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 gallery later this weeks,

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a remarkable sight.

Now, for the first time in nearly 260 years, it will also be a widely accessible one.

This stunning marble depiction of the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare will go on public display in the atrium of the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood starting on January 25.

William Weddell, the British artistocrat who purchased the statue of Athena on a Grand Tour of Rome

Before the Halsted A&A Foundation acquired the sculpture in 2023, it was tucked away in a rose-colored niche in Newby Hall, the North Yorkshire country house of William Weddell, a British landowner and politician who traveled to Rome to purchase it in the mid-1700s.

���By displaying the sculpture at Wrightwood 659, the foundation invites the public to see a work which has been largely out of general public view for nearly three centuries,” Karen Manchester, the curator of the Halsted A&A Foundation, says in a statement.

“Now, scholars, students and visitors will be able to study the statue of Athena closely and interpret it from many perspectives, including those of art history, restoration practices and gender studies,” she adds.

Among the most interesting features of this Athena is the 74.5-inch-tall statue’s hodgepodge provenance. Its head came from a sculpture carved during the time of the Roman emperor Augustus (31 B.C.E. to 14 C.E.). Meanwhile, its body was grafted from a statue dating to the reign of Claudius (41 to 54 C.E.), the ruler who conquered Britain, according to the statement.

The so-called "Halsted Athena" at its new home at Wrightwood 659, a gallery in Chicago

But this mishmash of marble wasn’t a scam to get the wealthy Weddell to purchase a seemingly intact statue of Athena. “Rather, many buyers preferred complete pieces, even if composed of unrelated parts,” Manchester explains.

When older parts weren’t available, sculptors would carve new ones, such as the so-called Halsted Athena’s left arm and a section between her jaw and chest. While these “pastiches” might confuse archaeologists attempting to trace an artwork’s origins, Manchester says they tell complex stories about art, taste and aesthetics throughout history, per the Observer’s Elisa Carollo.

The Halsted Athena emerges from the confines of Weddell’s Newby Hall at the same time that 58 pieces from the Torlonia Collection, a trove of ancient sculptures, travel to North America for the first time. They will go on view at the Art Institute of Chicago’s “Myth & Marble” exhibition, which opens on March 15.

Weddell’s own journey to Rome to purchase the statue reflects the practice of Grand Tours across the cities of the ancient world, popular among young British aristocrats. A painter who encountered Weddell on his Grand Tour of Rome once remarked that the collector had “[bought] such a quantity of pictures, marbles, etc. as will astonish the West Riding of Yorkshire.”

William Weddell and fellow British travelers as depicted by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, who remarked on the large number of antiquities that Weddell planned to bring home with him

Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek, and therefore were familiar with the Latin names of deities,” Manchester tells Elena Goukassian of the Art Newspaper.

But the Roman statue distinctly depicts the Greek goddess, with her signature helmet and aegis, or sash-like cloak, draped across her chest.

“At the time these pieces were carved, the classical style was in vogue. In other words, ancient Roman customers wanted sculptures that reflected the look of ancient Greek and Hellenistic Greek,” Manchester adds.

Even in the first century C.E., when the statue took its complete form, Romans were harking back to an immemorial Greece. Now, the Halsted Athena’s voyage to the leafy avenues and art galleries of well-to-do Lincoln Park adds another chapter to its rich and complex backstory, stretching from Greece to Rome and from Yorkshire to Chicago.

By Eli Wizevich.

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One Tree Hill Community Hall, Hosur, India - Samira Rathod Design Atelier

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Palazzo Vecchio via Piazza della Signoria

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Cringetober Day 1: Screenshot Redraw

"Joseph dear boy!!"

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