Wall tiles painted with split-leaves revolving around a rosette, c. 1560 – at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens.
Category: Photography
Posted on March 2, 2018
Snow days.
Posted on February 28, 2018
Bobby Klein's best photograph: Jim Morrison has a beer for breakfast.
Posted on February 26, 2018
Edna St Vincent Millay is one of my favourite poets – just noticed and appreciated this article, published on the anniversary of her birth, February 22nd 1892: Edna St Vincent Millay's poetry has been eclipsed by her personal life – let's change that 📚
Posted on February 25, 2018
Athens (stylised by Google)
Posted on February 24, 2018
Flight home delayed 🙁 🙂
Posted on February 23, 2018
Last day in Athens
Posted on February 23, 2018
Parko Navarinou
Posted on February 21, 2018
Retsina at the Acropolis Museum🍷
Posted on February 21, 2018
Photo I:
A relief of the deceased girl Korallion, shown seated, holding out her hand to her husband. Grave enclosure of the Herakleotai, Street of the Tombs.
Ca. 350 B.C.
Photo II:
A relief of the deceased girl Eukoline, shown with her parents, her grandmother and her dog. Found near the Sacred Way.
Ca. 350 B.C.
Photo III:
Grave relief of Demetria and Pamphile.
The inscription beneath the pediment gives the names of the two dead sisters.
The women, remote and isolated, gaze apathetically at the spectator. They are already in another, transcendental world, far from the things of this life. The pilasters of the naiskos have been restored. It is one of the last tomb stones made before the law passed by Demetrios of Phaleron prohibiting the erection of luxurious tomb monuments.
Ca. 325-310 B.C.