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Subject: [Leica] [OM] Ancient Sicilian Greek pottery
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:13:37 +0100
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In a similar vein, I posted a photo of a 17th century painting from Valencia 
cathedral last week, with a very well-endowed Virgin Mary offering her 
breast (nipple and all) to baby Jesus. So far it has remained accessible, 
after about a week :-)

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

Alicante, Spain
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YNWA













> On 4 Jan 2019, at 10:33, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> In Agrigento, site of an ancient Greek settlement in Sicily, we saw many 
> examples of ancient pottery depicting domestic, religious and civic scenes 
> from about 2400 years ago. Because of differences in attitudes towards 
> display of the human body then vs. now, I was forced to add a modern 
> fig-leaf to the version you can see here on flickr, lest I risk my entire 
> body of work being deemed X-rated by some present-day Puritan.  For this, 
> I apologize to both you and the ancient artist.
> <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at 
> N04/31655949187/in/dateposted-public/>
> 
> However, all is not lost. You can see the original, un-bowdlerized 
> versions of the above, and nine more Grecian urns here:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/AgrigentoGreekPottery/>
> Click on the images to see bigger, and on the double rectangle centered 
> above the photos to see them full-size.
> 
> Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 40/1.7. We were rushed through the exhibit 
> because we were behind schedule. Even so, I felt like the ancient artists 
> were telling me something about life back then.  I hope you'll see it, too.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> 
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