#statuari

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[crybabycrush]

Mt Olivet cemetery (2016)

[yebreed]

Extreme Baroque: Iron Temple On The Rice Mountain

Grotesque images from the Buddhist Iron Temple (鐵佛寺).

Located on the Rice Mountain (米山), Mixi (米西村) village, Jincheng, Shanxi, the temple is of an unknown construction date. The earliest record on the stone pillar in the main hall dates back to the seventh year of the Dading (大定) period of the Yuan or Jin dynasties. There is evidence that the temple was reconstructed in the third year of Wanli (1575). However, in the county annals, it is mentioned no earlier than the Qing dynasty.

These astonishing, presumably Ming statues owe their creation to the proximity of an iron ore. Iron frames made it possible to give the clay figures intricate poses and frilly decor.

Photo: ©大关沿路拍

[canopiancatboy]

I've been sick and really out of it, and felt possessed to print out some classic statues. I asked my partner for one to start with, and they chose Winged Victory of Samothrace

I love that museums and independent organizations just go around using high quality scanners to help make history more accessible, even in small ways like this. I'll likely never visit the Louvre, or Greece if they ever get it back, but I can print my own

[prokopetz]

Public decency standards for figural fountains are wild. Like, yes, you can run the fountain’s water channel directly through the figure’s penis, but – and this is key – only if the figure is sculpted in such a way as to make it 100% clear that it’s a flaccid penis. A statue just pissing everywhere is fine, but statue jizz is where we draw the line.

[vox-anglosphere]

The Marble Saloon in Stowe House has been beautifully restored!

[hellenhighwater]

Wait is that actually your ex-boyfriend's hand? What happened to him?

He works with real live dinosaurs so....

Nah, he and are are super good friends--we were before we dated, and remained so after, because the breakup was extremely amicable, and he's one of those people who's a terribly good gift-giver. Most years we still exchange gifts sometime between our respective birthdays and christmas, and he sent me that hand (it's a replica) as a gift one year. I made him the archaeopteryx fossil bowl this year.

Just because this is the OG bone-stealing witch website, I will clearly state that the only real human bones I possess are my own. My animal bones are all either scavenged myself or gifted to me by the people that scavenged them. (I have a sort of energy that consistently makes people go "I saw this dead thing and thought of you!")

I don't have a problem with owning human remains that are ethically sourced, but the reality is that unless you can very precisely trace the origin of human remains to the specific person who clearly and unequivocally stated in life that they're cool with someone keeping and displaying their now-unused crunchy bits, it's...probably not ethical. So if someone has some of their own bones that they're done using that they want to send my way: cool, let's talk, ideally before it's necessary to have the conversation by seance. Otherwise, I will continue to be perfectly happy with my replica remains.

I'd like to will my crunchy bits to someone who will make dramatic monologues to my noggin, but hopefully that's not an issue I'll need to deal with for a while yet.

[yorksnapshots]

Collecting statuary at Burton Constable, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[avtavr]

Nike of Samothrace

[witchrealms]

(x)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Arthur Getz, Antique Shop, 1950s. Watercolor on paper. Unpublished cover for The New Yorker.

Photo: Helicline Fine Art

[eincline]

Prismatic Perseus | AI-assisted art by @eincline

[fwoomp-me-up]

[lunarriviera]