Comments on: Lawn Decoration of the Day http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/ Welcome to the beautiful life Sun, 19 May 2013 06:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: AA http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444080 AA Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:05:52 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444080 I’m in the house to the right @flatsix_dc apparently we are neighbors? Ps love that they got my dead herb garden and solar light in the pic!

]]> By: flatsix_dc http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444045 flatsix_dc Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:09:06 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444045 Super nicely done.

]]> By: djdc http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444038 djdc Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:18:26 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444038 Yes, nicely done. I obviously didn’t have enough free time to notice the hooves and horns or do any research. Thanks!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444037 Anonymous Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:36:46 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444037 http://www.washingtonsculptors.org/

]]> By: dcdude http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444036 dcdude Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:32:41 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444036 Nicely done!

]]> By: textdoc http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444034 textdoc Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:25:08 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444034 Wikipedia on the sculptor and this particular statue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pradier

“The cool neoclassical surface finish of [Pradier's] sculptures is charged with an eroticism that their mythological themes can barely disguise. At the Salon of 1834, Pradier’s Satyr and Bacchante created a scandalous sensation. Some claimed to recognize the features of the sculptor and his mistress, Juliette Drouet. When the prudish government of Louis-Philippe refused to purchase it, Count Anatole Demidoff bought it and took it to his palazzo in Florence. (It has since come back to the Louvre).”

]]> By: textdoc http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444032 textdoc Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:21:35 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444032 Here we go… seems to be “Satyre et Bacchante,” by Jean-Jacques Pradier, housed in the Louvre:

http://worldvisitguide.com/oeuvre/O0010031.html

]]> By: textdoc http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444028 textdoc Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:15:40 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444028 Looks like maybe a reinterpretation of this statue… but I can’t determine from the Flickr photo where the statue is housed, or what its title is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gimmethefonk/6371480849/in/photostream/

]]> By: dcdude http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-444020 dcdude Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:55:55 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-444020 Nah. The male figure is a satyr (notice the horns and hoofs). I’m guessing the female figure is a nymph. Satyrs and nymphs in varous stages of copulation were a favorite subject of many painters and sculptors during the Neoclassical period in mid-to-late 18th century Europe. I’m guessing this is modeled after one such work.

]]> By: flatsix_dc http://www.popville.com/2012/02/lawn-decoration-of-the-day-110/#comment-443976 flatsix_dc Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:59:21 +0000 http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=57598#comment-443976 It’s winter, you know. In the spring the statue is surrounded by beautiful flowers.

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