#museum of victory

[didoofcarthage]

Denarius with head of Julius Caesar (obverse) and Venus holding Victory (reverse), minted under P. Sepullius Macer at Rome

Roman, Republican Period, 44 B.C.

silver

British Museum

[copperbadge]

When it became evident that the Nazis would take Paris, the Louvre began to evacuate; they started with the most vital pieces, like the Mona Lisa and Winged Victory. Here she is being moved for transport out of the city to hopeful safety. I find the photos fascinating, the endeavor foolish and beautiful. And it worked.

Always acknowledging the human and cultural loss, millions of people exterminated in the Nazi death machine, we also lost art to the largest scale theft and looting the world has ever seen before or since. There are still paintings missing, and those that can never be restored to their owners or heirs.

But a lot was saved, and came back. Truly it should be in Greece and not in the Louvre, but today I got to stand in front of the Nike of Samothrace and spit in Herman Goring's eye.

Fascism can't beat art, not forever.

[ID: three images; top two are black and white photos of the Nike of Samothrace, a woman with backswept wings, draped in fabric and missing her arms and head; in the top photos she is wrapped in rope and being hoisted onto a cart, then moved down a flight of stairs. Below, my own photo, Nike sits in triumph in the Louvre once more, lit by sunlight from an unseen window.]

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 21st April ✨

Here are the shows which got me through a particularly heavy set of night shifts! 😌

👻 @tellnotalespod (S2E78) The music in this episode was so sad 😭. Of COURSE Frank hadn’t considered the emotional nature of the tether in his research. Jesus 🙄. Leo needs to start running this show ASAP.

🌲 @hellofromthehallowoods (148) I’m absolutely obsessed with Buck’s glow up. Honestly, goals. What an interesting cast of characters we have aboard this ship, I can’t wait to spend more time with them. Dashiell reporting to have never met Valerie snuffs out one of my early theories … unless he’s lying! I’m so scared for Shelby and Clem! The action writing has always been amazing in this show but the TENSION this season. I can’t cope. Also, that body at the end! A reference to the circle of fifths?? I’m gonna get emotionally wrecked by the murderer reveal, I can already tell.

🧳 Travelling Light @monstrousproductions (18) oh these Augurians are so lovely and mystical but I was hit by a wave of sadness thinking about one old soul whose aviary is down to one single bird companion and then getting the prophecy of when it will die 🥺 But my sad thoughts were soon drowned out by the 🚨HOLDING HANDS ALARM🚨. Good grief, they’re bloody adorable.

🎙️WTNV (246) I’m so glad we actually got to hear this story!! I couldn’t agree more, Abby, it is not incomprehensible that two living people could haunt each other. I’m reminded of a fave Everything Everything lyric ‘if he’s dead, he’s not a deadbeat dad’…. you feel me?

🏛 @the-mistholme-museum (ERASED) oh, boy, I sure hope this episode title is just a fun word which begins with E and not a reference to what’s happened with HoResearch! Anyone down to make a petition for one more season where the guide just talks to itself? It’s so cute!!

🖥️ The Magnus Protocol (12) oh god, I bloody hate mascots/clowns and this is not helping at all….

🍎 @notquitedeadpod (XXXVI) I don’t like listening to Alfie cry 😭 forgive me, but I’m mentally not ready to give up on the idea of Cas coming back. I believe that Haley believes in what she’s telling Alfie but I’m also like… babes, you maybe want to ask your consultant about that? I need to relisten with a notepad or something to get this new biology lore down because it’s so interesting!!

I’m thinking about starting Hi Nay or Small Victories this week, I’ve heard such good things about both of them! If you have a particular fave or if there’s a show you think I’d prefer more - let me know!!

[royalcore-fantasy]

"They have been trying to cut my wings since the day that I was born; so that I could fit in their boxes that full of fear and dust. How foolish of them to think so. To think that my soul won’t be released one day or that my head won’t look above and see how much the sky is wide open for my wings to be grown again and simply fly …" -Samiha Totanji

Sources: Pinterest

[coolvietnamlove]

Dien Bien Phu Victory History Museum, Dien Bien, Vietnam: Located in Street 1, Muong Thanh District, Dien Bien Phu Town, Dien Bien Province, Dien Bien Phu Victory Museum was built in 1984 to mark the 30th anniversary of the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory. The museum is divided into five exhibition areas with 274 objects and 122 paintings for each theme: the strategic location of Dien Bien Phu, the group of enemy fortresses in Dien Bien Phu, the Communist Party in the preparation of the leadership lines for the Dien Bien Phu campaign, the influence of the Dien Bien Phu victory, and Dien Bien Phu today.

[nonightigal]

Gay Ship that didn’t, and mostly wont ever get together because the series/thing ended (my reason to not ship husk x angle, I can’t keep having this happen to me)

Luca x Alberto

Jade x tori

Jedediah x Octavius

Loki x möbius

Carmen x Jules

Mattholomule x Gus

Lego Joker x Batman

Tulio x Miguel

The two police man in gravity falls

John Lawrence x Alexander h

Bucky x Steve

Dally x Johnny

Artemis x Zöe nightshade

Phoebe X Melody

Wally x Dick

Apple x darling

Raven x Maddie

Anyone in scooby doo

Linus x max

Mal x evie

Kody x Lumine

Willow x Maddie

Aziraphale x Crowley (please let this happen I needed them to actually get together. I have one season left so that’s 6 hours of content to make them not fully but somewhat forgive each other)

Achilles x Patroclus

[enpr-ss]

cubfan135 made the advancement [Smuggling Contraband]

[artschoolglasses]

Winged Victory in the Louvre

Paris, France

[clove-pinks]

HMS Victory, newly restored in 1928 and receiving visitors in Portsmouth, by William Lionel Wyllie, RA (British, 1851-1931).

[tender-somethings]

winged victory, musée du louvre

[cece693]

What Fandoms I Write For/Interests

Hey, if this is your first post of mine, I shake you warmly by the hand :) This space is where I will post fanfics and imagines I come up with since I'm too lazy to do so over at Wattpad. So without further ado... I introduce to you, friends, the fandoms I'm currently writing/am eager to write for (TAKING REQUESTS):

Anything Slasher/Horror

Celebrities (DEPENDS ON WHO THOUGH)

Twilight

Marvel/Avengers

Shadowhunters/The Mortal Instruments

Divergent

The Hunger Games

The Vampire Diaries

Interview with The Vampire

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Outsiders

Fast and the Furious

Night at the Museum

Victorious

The Adams Family

Titanic (MOVIE)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (ANY MOVIE, ADULTS ONLY IF REQUESTING)

[didoofcarthage]

Victory, Janus, Chronos, and Gaea by Giulio Romano

Italian, c. 1532-1534

pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

J. Paul Getty Museum

[kgdanny02]

The Winged Victory of Samothrace 🪽

[rabid-ratt]

gay people are REAL

[ariadnethedragon]

The Fall of Icarus by Merry-Joseph Blondel // Winged Victory or Nike of Samothrace // Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss by Antonio Canova // The Gallery D’Apollon // The Virgin Annunciate by Pompeo Batoni // The Sleeping Hermaphroditus

[vizuart]