We took my parents to Paris for their 50th anniversary. It was my third visit, and instead of the usual tourist photos, I was drawn to taking some shots of sculpture, artwork and architecture, naturally of a classical and heroic style. This of course is from the steps of Opera Garnier.
My husband and I attended the Gaultier exhibit at the Grand Palais.
I only took one shot from the exhibit because this really surprised me: Kurt Cobain in vampiric Gaultier menswear.
A pillar from the highly ornamental Pont Alexandre III.
Lion and cherub.
A nobleman in the gardens of Versailles. Possibly Alexandre the Great?
I took a number of photos of fountain sculptures at the gardens of Versailles. These are some scary looking dogs.
Fountain sculpture with hunting scene.
A fountain nymph
Inside the Chateau de Versailles, I just took a few shots. Here, the flamboyant Louis XIV.
Apollo has been interesting me lately, and I spotted him on this ceiling fresco in the “Apollo Salon.”
The goddess Diana in the Hall of Mirrors
The splendid gates of the Chateau de Versailles
Rodin archer statue at Musee d’Orsay
Portrait of Napoleon outside the Musee de la Legion d’Honneur
Le Serment de Spartacus in the Tuileries Gardens
Theseus and the Minotaur
Cain, after killing his brother Abel.
A Dionysius at the Louvre
And, my favorites: Antinous statues in tribute to Hadrian’s famed lover. The description of this work said that it was likely a statue of Hercules, which Hadrian commissioned to have modified to portray his heroic lover.
Antinous bust