Capolavori Dell'arte Egizia, L'arte Per I Morti (illustri)

Capolavori dell'arte egizia, l'arte per i morti (illustri)

Coffin of Hornedjitef, Ptolemaic Egypt, circa 240 BC

from The British Museum

Una historia tremenda y fascinante sobre la codicia y la virtud, me ha encantado

Ancient Origins España y Latinoamérica

La leyenda nativa americana del Gigante Durmiente y la codicia del Hombre Blanco

No hace mucho tiempo, una tribu nativa americana conocida como los Ojibwa recorría la región de los Grandes Lagos, entre los Estados Unidos

No hace mucho tiempo, una tribu nativa americana conocida como los Ojibwa recorría la región de los Grandes Lagos, entre los Estados Unidos y Canadá.

Hand Mirror

Etruscan, 470-450 BCE

Found in women’s graves, bronze mirrors were luxurious personal possessions used in life and then buried with the dead for use in the afterlife. One side was highly polished; the other side was usually engraved with a mythic scene, such as this one, which shows the goddess Eos carrying the body of her son, Memnon, who was killed by the hero Achilles. The episode was taken from Homer’s The Iliad, the epic poem that narrates the Greek siege and eventual defeat of the city of Troy.

Canopic jar of king Tutankhamun

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c. 1333-1323 B.C. Tomb of Tutankhamun, KV62. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60687

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The Jaguar Gorget

A gorget is an engraved shell perforated for suspension that was worn at the throat or chest by ancient Native Americans. the artifact was discovered in the Fairfield Mound site in Benton County, Missouri. Identification of the design as a jaguar is almost certain due to the detailed characterization of traits distinctive to the jaguar, such as the location of the spots as well as the form of the head, ears, and tail. The Jaguar Gorget was most likely produced during the Middle Woodland period (250 B.C. – A.D. 450) and passed down through generations, until ultimately deposited in a Late Woodland burial (A.D. 450 – 900). The representation of the jaguar has been the cause of much debate. The animal is not known to have inhabited Missouri and has only come as far north as southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana. The representation could be the independent use of the jaguar motif or diffusion of iconography from Central America.

One of the last surviving gay men who lived to tell the tale…Albrecht Becker ( 1906-2002) was a German production designer, photographer, and actor who was imprisoned by the Nazi regime for the charge of homosexuality. At age eighteen, Albrecht began a relationship with the older Joseph Friedrich Abert, in a relationship lasted ten years. In the 1930’s a fellow townspeeso. complained to the local police department that his mail was being opened. The complaint was investigated by the Gestapo, who took the liberty to search his home and discovered a number of photographs of young men in his safe. One of these photographs was of Albrecht Becker. Becker was brought in for questioning in 1935 on suspicion of violating Paragraph 175. "Everybody knows I'm a homosexual." declared Albrecht. Both he and his neighbor, Dr Leopold Obermayer, were put on trial. Albrecht was was sentenced to three years in prison at Nürnberg. Obermayer was also convicted of violating Paragraph 175, but as a Jew was sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was tortured there and sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he died. As the tide of the war turned against the Nazi’s and there was a need to replace dead soldiers, Albrecht was released in order to serve in the Wehrmacht. He served on the Russian front until 1944 as many gay men were used as cannon fodder. After the war Albrecht Becker would pick up the pieces of his life and keep his secrets until 2 years before his death at 95, spoke of his experiences during the war in the 2000 documentary Paragraph 175.