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💬🌳🏛🖼️📜 Quotes, nature, architecture, art and history about our homeland, Europe.
“Who on Earth is so careless or lazy that he would not wish to learn how and under what form of government almost all of the inhabited world was conquered and became subject to the rule of Rome in less than 53 years.”
—Polybius, Histories 1.1.5
Victoria Memorial at Buckingham Palace, London, England.
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"Death of Sappho" — Miguel Carbonell Selva, 1881.
The story about the fatal leap of Sappho into the sea at a headland named Leukas, which means ‘White Rock’, is best known today from a version that we read in a collection of elegiac poems by Ovid about female heroes, the Heroides.
This version is Heroides 15, which fictionalizes a plaintive letter written by a lovesick Sappho before she takes her fatal leap. Her letter is addressed to a beautiful young male lover named Phaon, whom she tearfully reproaches for having abandoned her and having voyaged off to parts West.
“In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman...”
— Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West.
Colossal marble bust of Zeus. Roman. 130-150 (circa). From Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli), Italy, Lazio.
📸 The British Museum, London.
Saint James Church (St. Jakov) Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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"Farewell dear France", by Eugène François Joseph Siberdt
Mary Queen of Scots departs France
Roman Facet-Cut Blue Glass Hanging Bowl with Female Heads, 1st Half of the 4th Century AD
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The Palais Garnier, also known as Opéra Garnier, Paris, France.
It's an opera house situated at the northern end of the avenue de l'Opera, in Paris (France). It was built between 1862 and 1875 by order of Emperor Napoléon III and designed by French architect Charles Garnier, hence the name.
The grave of Caroline Walter in the Old Cemetery in Freiburg, Germany.
The sleeping girl made of stone lying on a bed with lavishly draped coverings is one of the most beautiful and famous tombs in the Old Cemetery, and therefore a point of interest in Freiburg. Caroline Christine Walter (1850–1867) died of tuberculosis when she was just 16 years old.
The open book she holds in her hand bears the inscription: “It is certain in God's wisdom that from our dearest loved one we must part.”
As the local tradition goes, Caroline Walter's lover was unable to recover from her death, which is why he brought fresh flowers to her grave every day.
"The Lady of the Lake gives Excalibur to King Arthur", Alfred Kappes, 1880.
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"Perseus Turning Phineus and his followers to Stone", Luca Giordano
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Roman gold signet ring engeaved with the deity Victory
Found by amateur metal detectorist Jason Massey on location in Crewkerne in the County of Somerset.
The ring is a large piece of jewelry and was almost certainly worn by a male. Because it was made of gold it was probably worn by a Romano-Briton of high status.
The Ludovisi Gaul (Galatian Suicide), 2nd Century BC
The Ludovisi Gaul is an ancient Roman statue depicting a Gallic man plunging a sword into his breast as he holds up the dying body of his wife. This sculpture is a marble copy of a now lost Greek bronze original.
📸 Palazzo Altemps, National Museum of Rome, Italy
Head of Athena, found in Tel Naharon (northern Beth Shean), 2nd century AD
Athena (the Roman Minerva) was the daughter of Zeus, king of the gods. She was the goddess of wisdom and the art of warfare, patroness of heroes, artists, and the arts. She is usually depicted helmet-clad and armed with a spear and shield. Of this statue, which originally rose to 2.5 meters, only the head has survived. Traces of paint indicate that it was originally brightly painted. The contrast between the smooth face and rough hair are typical of the style of the 2nd century CE.
Nymph with Child and Infant Faun by Jules Visseaux (1900-20)
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New frescos have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
The frescos depict Greek mythology: Paris kidnaps Helen which triggers the Trojan War
Mythical Greek figures such as Helen of Troy are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall.
The room's near-complete mosaic floor incorporates more than a million individual white tiles.
"[...] that is why we are anti-Marxists, we are anti-Marxists because we are horrified, like every Westerner, every Christian, every European boss or proletarian, is horrified of being like an inferior animal in an anthill."
— José Antonio Primo de Rivera
"Der Hauptbahnhof". Hamburg main station, Germany 1930s.
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“Feminism liberated women from the natural dignity of their sex and turned them into inferior men.”
― Francis Parker Yockey, Imperium: Philosophy of History & Politics
"Coronation of Charles VI the Beloved"
Grandes Chroniques de France, by Jean Fouquet, Tours, circa 1455-1460 Paris.
📸 Mother, daughter and market in Budapest, 1984.
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Statue of a Molossian dog. Roman copy after a Hellenistic bronze original. 2nd century BC.
📸 The British Museum
These Mastiff type dogs can be traced back as far as 411 B.C. The Molossus dogs became extremely popular throughout the world during the Hellenic period. Originally only owned by the Molossi people but over time they spread through the region and across the land. The Molossus was used as war dogs in countless wars during this era. In the fourth Century B.C.
They accompanied King Philip II in his conquest of Greece, they also aided in the conquering of land from Egypt to India with Alexander the Great. During the Macedonian wars, at the height of the Roman Empire’s power, the legions that subdued and occupied the Greek Islands brought Mollosers back to Italy and bred them to native Italian breeds.
"Ganymede and Jupiters Eagle", Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1817.
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