Statues are boring.

[swee'pea99]

Way back when, I went to The Accademia in Florence to see Michaelangelo's David. Not that I knew (or know) anything about art, but the guidebooks said it was a must, so off I went. The David looked like every picture of David you've ever seen, but I was bowled over by these, which line the corridor on the way in:

Apparently they are four of an originally planned 30 sculptures, cut short by the death of the commissioning Pope, now known as the Unfinished Slaves. They are stunning 'in the flesh'...I think they look pretty striking even like this. They've stayed with me for 30+ years....

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I think they look pretty striking even like this. They've stayed with me for 30+ years....

How did you fit them in your panniers?!

GC

 

[swee'pea99]

'scuse me sir, is this your coat?

 

[Ganymede]

That Molly Malone one is just soft porn, isn't it. (Only, y'know, hard, obvs. No tittering at the back....)

Spike Milligan said the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens saved his sanity (not all the time I guess). I suppose that's a sculpture rather than a statue?

 

[Spinney]

That Molly Malone one is just soft porn, isn't it. (Only, y'know, hard, obvs. No tittering at the back....)

Spike Milligan said the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens saved his sanity (not all the time I guess). I suppose that's a sculpture rather than a statue?

Where's the line between soft porn and art?

(One assumes it was a fairly cold day...)

 

[Ganymede]

Spinney - I catch your drift... but that Molly Malone statue is also pants. She just looks like an excuse for a bit of drooling.

 

[MontyVeda]

...
I was once given directions in Morecambe '...go along the front and turn left at Eric' !

I bet that was the first and last time you asked, "Can you direct me to Morecambe town centre?"

Not very local... but this one really struck me

 

[TVC]

I got to see the Venus de Milo a couple of years ago, nice chisel work but very forgettable. It was the same morning I saw the Mona Lisa. I think these art ponces may be trying to con us.

 

[Saluki]

You mean the weeping angels?

(that smiley's dead - it blinks!)

Argghhhhhhh Don't blink!

 

[Saluki]

Where's the line between soft porn and art?

(One assumes it was a fairly cold day...)

Back in those days, they were not so obsessed with willie size!

 

[Archie_tect]

BIG hands though.... silly really.

 

[snailracer]

"Modesty", carved in marble, by Antonio Corradini, 1751.

 

[Spinney]

Religious statue?
Must be OK then...

 

[Archie_tect]

Wow, that's incredible.... and knocks the one in Chatsworth for six!

 

[Ganymede]

"Modesty", carved in marble, by Antonio Corradini, 1751.

That's hilarious. But probably carved to a very specific commission from a wealthy lecher gentleman.