https://susanives.com/2020/03/23/mondays-monument-cesar-chavez-statue-austin-texas/
I wonder what's going to happen to the Cesar Chavez statue.
A quick snapshot for #AnimalArtTuesday. No clue what the story is behind this cheerful pup, but they were outside a pet spa near the hotel we stayed at in #Cleveland.
#UrbanGaze #Statues #Sculpture #Dogs #ClassicMono #Monochrome #MicroFourThirds #EastCoastKin
🎨🏛️ Did you know the "classic" white marble look of Roman #statues was actually an accident? Ancient artists originally covered their work in bright, lifelike #colors, but centuries of weathering and overzealous scrubbing took its toll.
#history #archaeology #ancientrome #art #science #education #museums #sculpture #discovery #learning

The idea of the classical period—the time of ancient Greece and Rome—as an elegantly unified collection of superior aesthetic and philosophical cultural traits has its own history, one that comes in large part from the era of the Neoclassical.