A statue of Captain Cook will be removed from a hill in New Zealand following protests by the local Maori community which says its ancestors arrived there long before the famous British explorer. via The Telegraph
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Tag: Art
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Captain Cook statue to be removed
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Pandæmonium
Pandæmonium is the capital of Hell in John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost.
John Milton invented the name for the capital of Hell, “the High Capital, of Satan and his Peers”, built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon at the end of Book I of Paradise Lost (1667). It was designed by the architect Mulciber, who had been the designer of palaces in Heaven before his fall. (In Roman times Mulciber was another name for the Roman god Vulcan). Book II begins with the debate among the “Stygian Council” in the council-chamber of Pandæmonium. The demons built it in about an hour, but it far surpassed all human palaces or dwellings; it may have been small, however, as the demons are described as shrinking from their titanic size in order to fit in. via wikipedia
John Martin, Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, c. 1823–1827 
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
By BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder, c. 1555
“No plow stops for a dying man.”
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Bust of Jesus Christ
Bust of Jesus Christ by Gianlorenzo Bernini.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini ( 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. A major figure in the world of architecture, he was the leading sculptor of his age, credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. As one scholar has commented, ‘What Shakespeare is to drama, Bernini may be to sculpture: the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision, and whose influence was inordinately powerful…’ via Wikipedia
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Odysseus taunts
‘Cyclops—if any man on the face of the earth should ask youwho blinded you, shamed you so—say Odysseus,raider of cities, he gouged out your eye,Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca!’ – The Odyssey – HomerArnold Bocklin‘s painting of Polyphemus standing on rocks onshore and swinging one of them back as the men row desperately over a surging wave.
Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter. Born 16 October 1827 Basel, Switzerland. Via wikipedia
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The fright of Astyanax by Benjamin West
He stretched his arms towards his child, but the boy cried and nestled in his nurse’s bosom, scared at the sight of his father’s armour, and at the horse-hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet. His father and mother laughed to see him, but Hector took the helmet from his head and laid it all gleaming upon the ground. Then he took his darling child, kissed him, and dandled him in his arms, praying over him the while to Jove and to all the gods. “Jove,” he cried, “grant that this my child may be even as myself, chief among the Trojans; let him be not less excellent in strength, and let him rule Ilius with his might. Then may one say of him as he comes from battle, ‘The son is far better than the father.’ May he bring back the blood-stained spoils of him whom he has laid low, and let his mother’s heart be glad.’” – Iliad. Homer
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St. Michael by Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 12 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. (via wikipedia)
