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Showing posts with label Orpheus. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

J.P. Getty Villa Museum

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J.P. Getty Museum

This is one of the many exhibits at the J.P. Getty Museum of carved marble statuary. The lady seated depicts a seated poet, another sculpture possibly the musician Orpheus a mythological hero. You have heard the expression of "chicken legs" or "bird legs" when people think their legs are thin. Take a look close at the feet of the standing women.