That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 01, 2024

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    Solstice*1947  about 6 hours ago

    /// Gérôme sculpted her over life-size.

    More heroic to most viewers’ eyes.

    This nude’s seared in his sight,

    (to get everything right).

    Here he concentrates, smoothing her thighs.

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    rmremail  about 6 hours ago

    The sculptor’s wife had become accustomed to him calling to her ‘stiff’ and ‘cold’ as a complement.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 6 hours ago

    The Natural Robot Pose

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    Jayalexander  about 4 hours ago

    Opps, slipped that’s quite a gash, should I fill it?

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    Zykoic  about 4 hours ago

    My eyes are up here.

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    A Common 'tator  about 2 hours ago

    When Geppetto steps back… Anyone want to guess which direction the model and sculpture are going to go?

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    phritzg Premium Member about 2 hours ago

    The greatest ancient sculptor must have been Medusa. Her statues looked so lifelike, you’d think they were human.

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    jdculhane46  35 minutes ago

    Willie has a brilliant driveway idea after seeing the little jockeys with lanterns.

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    PraiseofFolly  18 minutes ago

    Tradition (thatijustmadeup) has it that Gérôme dabbled in the Hebrew occult. And fascinated by the interesting possibilities in the Pygmalion-Galatea story, he researched the work of Solomon ibn Gabirol.

    That mystic/ misfit/ poet, who lived in the 11th century, is said to have created a female golem for household chores. And so, it is said, he sculpted a representation of Tanagra (Greek Goddess of Women and Marriage) from the model Emma Dupont.

    Apparently the embedded inscription that mobilized the female golem was somehow dislodged, and the sculpture reverted to lifeless clay.

    Decades later, the golem-making process that Gabirol used was rediscovered and refined, as represented in the insidious technology that made “The Stepford Wives.” (—

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