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persephone in ancient greek mytholo-gy, she, as the daughter of zeus and demeter, was worshipped as the goddess of vegetation, returning each spring from the realm of hades to herald the season of growth, and in winter disappearing to pass her time, like the seed, under the earth. the statue was executed in paris about 1840 by armand toussaint ...
According to a Troezenian legend, there came once during an insurrection at Troezen two Cretan maidens, Auxesia and Damia, whom some writers assume was a disguised Demeter, and who, in editions of the ancient geographer Pausanias, is called Lamia (though perhaps this is only an incorrect reading for Damia).
Brownie (1905), Houston Zoo; Bygones (1976), Menil Collection; Cancer, There Is Hope (1990) Charlotte Allen Fountain; Charmstone, Menil Collection; Cloud Column (2006), Glassell School of Art; George H. W. Bush Monument; Inversion; Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2) Lillian Schnitzer Fountain (1875), Hermann Park; Monument au Fantôme ...
A controversial statue by Pakistani-American sculptor Shahzia Sikander has been beheaded at the University of Houston. ‘Show the violated work’: Artist requests beheaded sculpture remains on ...
The statue was noted in 1676 by the traveller George Wheler, and several ambassadors who had submitted applications to the Ottomans for its removal with any success. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Around 1765–1766, the antiquary Richard Chandler , along with the architect Nicholas Revett and the painter William Pars , visited Eleusis and mentioned the statue as ...
At Phigaleia, a xoanon (wood-carved statue) of Demeter was erected in a cave which, tradition held, was the cave into which Black Demeter retreated. The statue depicted a Medusa-like figure with a horse's head and snake-like hair, holding a dove and a dolphin, which probably represented her power over air and water: [120]
Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Houston) Statue of Richard W. Dowling; T. Tolerance (sculpture) This page was last edited on 30 July 2017, at 04:15 (UTC). Text ...
As a matron Demeter carries a queen-like presence and is one of the main objects of attention in the pantheon. [1] [6] The description from what Pausanias gathered indicated that Demeter would have held a torch in right hand and her left laying on the Despoina statue, both of whom would share a throne and a footstool made out of a block of marble.