Classical Collection (page 7)

Colette / Fantasio 1909
SIDONIE-GABRIELLE WILLY French novelist Date: 1873 - 1954

Columns / Classical
Classical Greek orders

Restaurant of the Grand Hotel, Brussels, Belgium. Date: circa 1910

Academic Building, Nasson College, Springvale, Maine, USA. Date: 1950s

Ruins of Colchester castle.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

Peter Pears Benjamin Britten and George Malcolm during rehearsals of St Nicholas at Orford Church, Aldeburgh Festival 1961 Date: 1961

Peter Pears 1961
Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival 1961 Date: 1961

Peter Pears talking with Dorothy Strode 1961
Peter Pears and Dorothy Strode talking during an interval in the Aldeburgh Festival 1961 Date: 1961

Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, the seat of the Marquis of Hertford. The elaborate stairs leading to a first floor balcony are an unusual architectural feature - not beautiful

Schubert / Rosamunde
Rosamunde

Athena / Minerva Bust
A colossal head of Minerva, an example of very early Greek sculpture. The goddess is shown in a heavily restored form with later additions of a helmet crest and owl motifs

Proteus and Aristaeus
Proteus changes his shape to avoid using his oracular powers, but Aristaeus catches him unawares, binds him, and forces him to make revelations

Iphigenia in Tauris
Rescued by Artemis from sacrifice at Aulis, she becomes a priestess on Tauris, but her experience has given her a distaste for human sacrifice and she is unhappy

Abano Terme, Italy - Imposing entrace to the Ancient Springs
Abano Terme is a spa town and commune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei

View of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
View of Woburn Abbey (east facade), Bedfordshire. Date: circa 1960s

Nottingham Town Hall
The Council House, made of Portland stone, was the largest stone building to be built in Britain since World War One and was opened by the Prince of Wales on 22 May 1929 Date: 1950s

Hollman the Cellist
HOLLMAN " A great cellist" Date: 1897

Heather Harper, Janet Baker, Peter Pears and Bryan Drake
Heather Harper (Left), Janet Baker, Peter Pears and Bryan Drake rehearsing Schumann in the Jubilee Hall, for the concert in Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall on 21 June 1963, entitled Pot Pourri

Washington DC, USA - Library of Congress Mural - Orpheus
Washington DC, USA - Mural Painting - The Greek Heroes by Walter McEwen (1860-1943). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Orpheus. Slain by the Bacchantes. Date: 1920

Come with a romp with Neptune! He is king of the sea, where the lobster and crabs, the sole and the dabs, dance in the waves with glee

Pomona (Rackham)
She is the Roman goddess of fruit-trees and fruit

Poster advertising motor coach tours in Greece, arranged by the National Tourist Organization in cooperation with the travel agencies in Greece

Chapel Royal choristers
Seven Chapel royal boy choristers make their way along the street towards Buckingham Palace for an 11 o clock service, on the occasion of the Kings return to London

Restored by Aesculapius
Poseidons sea-monsters so terrify the horses of Hippolytus that they drag him to death; fortunately Asklepios is able to restore him to life

Romulus Becomes a God
Romulus joins the immortals

Hecuba and Polydore
She sees the corpse of her youngest son, Polydore, whom she had sent away supposedly to safety; coming on top of so many calamities, the sight sends her mad

Fashions for November 1815
Early 19th century fashion plate showing the typical Classical outline, and high waists fashionable of the period

MENDELSSOHNs ELIJAH
ELIJAH - cover of the book of words

Tools of an Architect
A plan for a neo-classical building is rested against the tools of the surveyors architects and builders who will construct this edifice

Herakles and the Amazons
The ninth labour : In order to obtain the Girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, he must first vanquish the Amazons themselves

Palmerston / Brockett Hall
HENRY JOHN TEMPLE THIRD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON Brockett Hall, where the English MP died on 18 October 1865

Iphigenia Not Sacrificed
Agamemnon is about to sacrifice his daughter so the Greek fleet can get under way to Troy, but Diana substitutes a deer at the last minute, and spirits her off to Tauris

Manchester / Royal Exch
Manchester: Royal Exchange

Advert / Ysaye Brussels
Poster for a classical music concert starring the Belgian violinist, conductor and composer Eugene Ysaye

Greece / Theatre Audience
A colourfully dressed and sophisticated audience at an Athenian theatre

Eros and Friendship
Eros, the God of Love, makes friends with Friendship

Music Scores / Berlioz
part of the score of Berliozs La Damnation de Faust, first performed in December 1846, and later turned into an opera

Penelope Embroidering
at work on her embroidery, which she will unstitch at night to avoid remarriage; Odysseus faithful dog Argus, at her side, awaits, as she does, his masters return

Hippolyta / Amazon
Hippolyta, the Amazon Queen, in fighting mode

Muses - Terpsichore
Terpsichore muse of dance

Eros & Psyche - 2
Psyche on the rock

Europa (Claude)
Europa, picking flowers in a meadow, is abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull and taken to Crete where he turns into an eagle and fathers on her Minos, Rhadamanthus, Sarpedon

Apollo (Tooke)
The bow testifies to his status as god of archery, the lyre to his patronage of the arts : his halo identifies him as the Roman equivalent of the Greek Sun-god HELIOS

Romulus & Remus Left
They are left by a river bank to die

Mentor & King Idomeneus
Mentor and King Idomeneus

Pan / Engraving by Mellan
Pan, the Greek god of the pastures

Theatre of Dionysos
The restored theatre of Dionysos in Athens

Icarus by Durer 1493
Icarus and Daedalus fly together. Then Icarus falls from the sky as the sun melts his wings

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