#Status Column

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Burnt offering in a Temple by Ludwig Kohl

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The trees and leaves surrounding the adventurer are as still as the stones awaiting his decision.

[classic-art-favourites]

The Ghosts of Hellas by Vasily Polenov, 1905.

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꧁★꧂

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The descent of the statue of Napoleon I from the top of the Vendôme column during the Bourbon Restoration, 8 April 1814

George Emmanuel Opiz

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The Cleveland Museum of Art to Return a 2,200-Year-Old Statue to Libya

A statue of a bearded man striding forward was crafted from black basalt over 2,000 years ago during the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Now, it’s finally set to return to Libya, where it was looted during British occupation in World War II, according to the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The museum, which has held the piece since 1991, announced the planned return in a Wednesday news release.

“Based on new information provided by the Department of Antiquities and research undertaken at the CMA, the museum voluntarily recognizes the statue as the property of Libya,” the news release read.

Mohamed Faraj Mohamed, head of Libya’s Department of Antiquities, said in the news release the department appreciated “the willingness of the Cleveland Museum of Art to work with the department in accomplishing the transfer of this important work.”

“We look forward to continued cooperation with the museum,” he said.

The statue stands almost two feet tall and was formed from basalt, a “hard volcanic rock formed from lava,” according to the museum’s website. The bearded man is dressed in “contemporary fashion” of the time: He’s wearing “a T-shirt, wraparound skirt, and shawl.”

The figure was discovered in a large storage jar during 1937-1938 excavations of the Columned Palace at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica, now part of eastern Libya, according to a statement shared by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The statue then ended up at the Ptolemais Museum in Libya, which was destroyed during the British occupation of the area. A 1950 publication by an Italian scholar noted the sculpture was “was likely lost in 1941.”

By 1960, the piece had made its way to Lucerne, Switzerland. The statue spent the decades between 1966 and 1991 in the private collection of New York art collectors Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman and was donated to the museum in 1991.

“Given the rarity of the sculpture type – carved of stone, with precise replicas very unlikely – and the extremely close resemblance between the sculpture given to the CMA in 1991 and the sculpture described and illustrated in 1950, together with the wartime events that took place in Libya, the CMA has concluded that the sculpture rightfully belongs to Libya,” the museum said.

By Zoe Sottile.

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💾🌴💿 何をするにも決して諦めないでください！💿🌴💾

[refinedstorage]

I aim to have a HOOOOGe library of assets so when I finally start building that city for my DX alt uni that'd be neat :D

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"Buste sur une colonne en marbre (Musée de Cluny)"

Anonymous photographer, 1864, France.

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Glyptothek

Munich, Germany

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A young Christopher Lee guest stars as dastardly Larry Spence - a rising star in the world of journalism, turned blackmailer and then murderer - in The Vise: The Final Column (1.16, ABC, 1955); the episode wasn't seen in the UK until 1963, as part of ITV drama anthology Tension

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The Old Temple by Hubert Robert

[nakedinthecity]

Diana, 16.09.2022

[classic-art-favourites]

Sir Sampson Gideon and an Unidentified Companion by Pompeo Batoni, 1767.

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"The Chase" (1946) - A well done colorization!

I wasn't crazy about this movie, but it's colorization is infinitely better than the last one I shared. This movie actually warrants a colorization. The colorized version looks surreal and dreamlike, in a way that's fitting for the movie's tone.

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Marble