sienamystic: (fleur de lis)
sienamystic ([personal profile] sienamystic) wrote2009-02-21 03:49 pm

gloria, gloria

sculptures at Chartes

Abraham cups Isaac's face. They both stand on top of the substitution ram.

Chartes sculpture

Chartes figure

(Anonymous) 2009-02-21 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it wrong to want to live in a home completely bedecked with these things?
jess

[identity profile] alibi-factory.livejournal.com 2009-02-21 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't think of Chartes without being reminded of the passage on it from F for Fake:


So, I get that it's Moses to Abraham's right

[identity profile] dakiwiboid.livejournal.com 2009-02-21 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
(as he faces us) but what is that on the teentsy pillar behind him? It looks like some kind of parrot or something.

[identity profile] nigita.livejournal.com 2009-02-22 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just catching up after a little bit away from lj, but still I feel silly not to know where this was taken.

(Anonymous) 2009-02-22 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaaaah! So jealous! You and your new camera take great pics. Please add more. ~Kate-h