Blond
This is a gallery for the Wikipedia article "w:Blond" about blond hair.
Variations
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A woman with long blond hair
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A young man with light blond hair
Art
editAncient Greece
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The male figure of the Etruscan w:sarcophagus known as the w:Sarcophagus of the Spouses (w:Louvre, Paris), 520–510 BC
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The goddess w:Hera (according to the description on the cup); tondo of an Attic w:white-ground kylix from w:Vulci, c. 470 BC
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w:Terracotta vase in the shape of w:Dionysus' head, c. 410 BC; on display in the w:Ancient Agora Museum in w:Athens, housed in the w:Stoa of Attalus
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Pottery vessel of w:Aphrodite in a shell; from w:Attica, w:Classical Greece, discovered at w:Phanagoria, w:Taman Peninsula (w:Bosporan Kingdom, w:southern Russia), early 4th century BC, w:Hermitage Museum, w:Saint Petersburg
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An w:ancient Greek pottery (w:terracotta) figurine from Taras (modern w:Taranto), w:Magna Graecia, w:Altes Museum
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A youth pours a w:libation to a dead man sitting in a w:naiskos; from an Apulian w:red-figure volute-w:krater w:pelike, 340–320 BC
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w:Alexander the Great (left), wearing a w:kausia and fighting an w:Asiatic lion with his friend w:Craterus (detail); late 4th-century BC w:mosaic from Pella[1]
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Apulian w:red-figure w:Oinochoe with Lid by the Ganymed Painter (Oinochoe) and Armidale Painter (Lid): head in a calyx between tendrils. About 340–310 BC. Antikensammlung Kiel.
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Detail of a w:krater with volutes in terracotta; Greek art from Southern Italy, c. 330–320 BC.
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A Gnathia-style ceramic vessel from ancient w:Magna Graecia (w:Apulia, Italy), depicting a blond winged youth with a w:Phrygian cap, with lion head spouts, by the "Toledo" painter, c. 300 BC
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Woman's head on an w:alabastron in gnathia style; Apulian vase painting, Magna Graecia, Antikensammlung Kiel
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Color reconstruction of statue of a young girl from the w:Parthenon in Athens, 520 BC. Based on analysis of trace pigments.
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Reconstructed polychromy of a vase-shaped tombstone from Athens, c. 330 BC, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
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The Greek goddess w:Artemis. Color reconstruction of a 1st-century AD statue found in w:Pompeii. Reconstructed using analysis of trace pigments. It was an imitation of Greek statues of the 6th century BC.
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The Treu Head, 2nd century AD. Color reconstruction of marble head of likely a goddess. The head was found at the w:Esquiline Hill, Rome, and preserves numerous colour traces.
Acient Rome
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Fresco depicting a seated woman, from the Villa Arianna at Stabiae, 1st century AD
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Mosaic of w:Aphrodite from Pompeii
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A maenad holding a w:cupid, Pompeii, 1st century AD
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Ancient Roman bust of w:Antinous, made during the reign of w:Hadrian (117–138 AD), National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
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Remnants of a Roman bust of a youth with a blond beard, perhaps depicting w:Roman emperor w:Commodus (r. 177–192), w:National Archaeological Museum, Athens
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A blond man in a Roman fresco from w:Klagenfurt, w:Austria, Landesmuseum für Kärnten
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w:Roman mosaic depicting a feminine personification, from the Boathouse of Psyche in Daphne (suburb of w:Antioch), beginning of 3rd century AD, Louvre Museum
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A boy holding a platter of fruits and what may be a bucket of crabs, in a kitchen with fish and squid, on the June panel from a mosaic depicting the months (3rd century)[2]
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A mosaic of young boys hunting from the w:Villa Romana del Casale, w:Roman Sicily, 4th century AD
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A Roman fresco depicting the goddess Diana hunting, 4th century AD, from the Via Livenza hypogeum in Rome
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Mosaic depicting w:Odysseus, from w:La Olmeda, Spain, late 4th–5th centuries AD
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W:Achilles being adored by princesses of Skyros, from a mythological scene in which Odysseus (Ulysses) discovers him dressed as a woman and hiding among the princesses at the royal court of Skyros. A late Roman mosaic from Olmeda, Spain, 4th–5th centuries AD
Medieval Europe
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Fourteenth-century painting by w:Giusto de' Menabuoi of w:Adam and Eve being expelled from Eden by an w:angel, showing all three as blond
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w:International Gothic showing w:Mary Magdalene covered by her long, blond hair as she is lifted by angels in SS. Johns' Cathedral in w:Toruń
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Adam and Eve (1507) by w:Albrecht Dürer, showing Eve with blond hair
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The Creation of Eve (1508 - 1512) by w:Michelangelo, showing Eve as blond
References
edit- ↑ Olga Palagia (2000). "Hephaestion's Pyre and the Royal Hunt of Alexander," in A.B. Bosworth and E.J. Baynham (eds), Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198152873, p. 185.
- ↑ J. Carson Webster, The Labors of the Months in Antique and Mediaeval Art to the End of the Twelfth Century, Studies in the Humanities 4 (Northwestern University Press, 1938), p. 128. In the collections of the w:Hermitage Museum.