That\'s interesting

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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That's interesting:<br>
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Igor Mitoraj is a contemporary "young" (born in 1944) polish sculptor that in my opinion really "gets" today the classical spirit of the Beauty.<br>
He's not a simple "nostalgic" of the ancient sculpture like Canova, but a deeply, I repeat, "contemporary" artist. The best worth of most of his art, is the "end of an era" feeling, though its "manierism of classical themes" look at a first superficial glance. Anyway he's does not look totally pessimist, neither metaphisic or surrealist. His work is simply "detached" like the ancient art looks at us.<br>
You can see in his works more than a touched homage to the ancient sculpture that's not a banal experiment of copy: maybe you can see also the last remaining traces of the Myth in our "modern" people DNA.<br>
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If anyone will be in Roma, an exhibition will be held at the Mercati Traiani till September 19. Some pics now, and note like<br>
those sculptures are not dissonant in that place...<br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/fori1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/fori2.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/fori3.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/fori4.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/quirinus.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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Valete,<br>
Titus <p></p><i></i>

[JRSCline]

Well, I can't call myself much of an art afficianado, but I could have a couple of those in the garden...<br>
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Jenny <p><br>
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"The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they are realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."<br>
-- Niccoló Machiavelli, <em>The Discourses</em>, 1517. </p><i></i>

[Goffredo]

Hi,<br>
I think these creations look cool in Trajan's forum. I'll go see them...<br>
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and then head off to jewish quarter to eat in some good restaurant by octavia' portico (marcello's theatre).<br>
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jeff <p></p><i></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Me too, Jenny, me too. Actually, I'd like to have that giant head in my office and nothing more: a totally white big office with just a desk and an armchair, plus that head... While, my real office is so fullfilled...<br>
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Jeff, take advantage of the roman summer and do also a quick jump to Fregene (good seaside, about 25 minuts from Rome along the Aurelia) and eat fish in one of the loads of restaurants directly on the long beach, but stay away from Mastino, the restaurant where the politicians often go to eat fish in the lunch time, directly from the Parliament: low-medium quality food and 100+ euro per person.<br>
Fregene is sweet in May, June, July and September to take sun and eat fish, while in August all the restaurants are practically desert: All the fine Romans are spred mainly between Ponza island and Sardinia.<br>
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Valete,<br>
Titus<br>
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[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Ah, I was forgetting, you can also take advantage of seeing the fantastic "Apollo di Veio", just restored with the original colors and exhibited at the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia.<br>
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