Athena was of course the protector of the city of Athena around wich Greece eventualy evolved. One of the most beautyful renderings of Athena is this statue made of bronse and was found as late as in 1959 in Piraeus. Many of the statues from ancient Greece are only known to us as roman copies of the originals. Pythokritos was the only one who could be compred to the Master of the Parthenon and Michelangelo. Of course he exceled in those fields too.
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Surrealism has always hit a very special string in my heart. I took a trip to the Louisiana museum in Denmark where they had a Magritte exibition. Please do visit my own Dali page where I have some rare scans not easily found on the web. This here is my favorite painting due to the soft feeling of pain, passion and helplessness. The myth of Tristan and Isolde is one of the oldest myths of Europe.