{"id":66426,"date":"2024-08-17T01:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T05:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=66426"},"modified":"2024-07-08T13:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T17:04:02","slug":"a-week-in-paris-part-seven-orsay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2024\/08\/17\/a-week-in-paris-part-seven-orsay\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week in Paris&#8211; Part Seven (Orsay)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Well let\u2019s start with the sculptures in Orsay which are considerable.\u00a0 Orsay\u00a0 is\u00a0 a big\u00a0 modern\u00a0 building\u00a0 compared\u00a0 to\u00a0 where\u00a0 these\u00a0 works\u00a0 of\u00a0 art\u00a0 used\u00a0 to\u00a0 be\u00a0 housed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240625_152958-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66492\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/08\/thumbnail_20240625_152958-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153047-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66429\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153047-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a statue of Eve, after she bit the apple, with regret written all over her face.\u00a0 The sculptor is Eugene Delaplanche.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153033-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66432\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153033-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And another rendering of the same theme by the same artist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153201-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66435\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153201-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a statue of Virgil, the author of the Aeneid by Gabriel Thomas.\u00a0 As any good student of art will know, Degas was fixated on ballerinas, to the degree of making many paintings of them, and also some sculptures. <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_151145-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66450\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_151145-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_151722-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66453\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_151722-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><a 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size-large wp-image-66444\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153236-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is called La. Devideuse by Jules Salmson.\u00a0 The one below is very different, depicting Cornelia, the mother of the Greeks\u2026by Jules Cavelier<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153251-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66447\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_20240625_153251-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well let\u2019s start with the sculptures in Orsay which are considerable.\u00a0 Orsay\u00a0 is\u00a0 a big\u00a0 modern\u00a0 building\u00a0 compared\u00a0 to\u00a0 where\u00a0 these\u00a0 works\u00a0 of\u00a0 art\u00a0 used\u00a0 to\u00a0 be\u00a0 housed. This is a statue of Eve, after she bit the apple, with regret written all over her face.\u00a0 The sculptor is Eugene Delaplanche. 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