Chapter 1820 "Sea Monster" (7)

Osman often came up with great ideas, but each time he was terrible at turning those brilliant ideas into reality.

He likes straight streets very much, and especially likes to build some majestic and large buildings on both sides of the street. This idea is not bad, but when he starts to operate, he will make frequent mistakes. For example, when he was building Opera House Avenue, he ran into Lou Lu.

The wing of the floating palace.

When widening these old streets, some cultural relics will inevitably be involved. In 1860, workers accidentally fell into a pile of strange relics while renovating the basement. This place was originally intended to be a luggage storage room.

Napoleon III had always wanted to determine the exact location of the decisive battle between Caesar and the Gauls. This move promoted the rapid development of French archeology, and archaeologists did discover some ancient ditches and ditches in the Alesi area.

Gallic coins, so a huge sculpture of Versengetorix was erected at the former battlefield and later archaeological site. The sculptor used the appearance and characteristics of Napoleon III to depict this work.

Art works such as portraits and sculptures often have their prototypes. The prototype of Strasbourg's city sculpture on the Place de la Concorde used the portrait of Victor Hugo's mistress, Juliette Drouet. After the Franco-Prussian War, her sculpture

It was once shrouded in black veil.

The sculpture originally erected at the entrance was of a short woman, whose image came from a painting painted by Napoleon.

Napoleon Bonaparte was an Italian, and although his paintings were far inferior to those of Leonardo da Vinci, the female facial features in that painting were still identifiable.

At first, people didn't believe that Napoleon I could paint. Later, Napoleon III thought that the poor painting was the work of his uncle, so people copied her image and carved a bust.

After the sculpture was completed, people began to discuss who the prototype of this painting was, just like people today discuss who the prototype of the Mona Lisa was. Later, someone suddenly discovered that the bust looked exactly like the work in his collection.

And that's the work of Antonio Canova.

Napoleon III went to check and found that the sculpture was indeed a person. At the same time, he also fell in love with the sculpture "Cupid's Kiss" in the officer's private collection. The two sculptures were shipped away together, and one of them was placed in the Louvre.

Palace, another statue is placed at this entrance.

Then one day, Napoleon III had a dream. He did not say anything specific, but had the sculpture of the harvest goddess removed, and then had a wax statue covered with a veil made. I don’t know how it was misinterpreted.

, the wax figure that was supposed to be covered with a veil became like the veiled female sculpture in the Louvre. The person in charge of this work at the time was Giovanni Strazza, an Italian born in Lombardy in 1818. In 1850

When he completed the sculpture of the Veiled Virgin in 2001, it caused a great sensation. Through the thin veil, it seemed that the tranquil and flawless beauty of the meditating Virgin could be seen.

After becoming famous, he served as a professor of sculpture at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. When the French found him, he was troubled by his long-term inability to break through his bottleneck. It seemed that the veiled Madonna was the pinnacle of his creation.

The veil sculpture in the Louvre was created by Anthony Cladini, who was born in Venice in 1688. This sculpture was originally stored in the private collection of a Venetian nobleman, and was only purchased by the Louvre in 1976.

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Napoleon I once purchased an anatomical wax figure in Florence. When the Art Commission placed the order, he did not have any hope, but when it was finally completed, the work was beyond people's imagination, but Strazza himself said that his inspiration was not the source.

For Cladini, she was not the Virgin, but the beautiful Helen described in Homer's epic poem "The Iliad".

Iris found Helen in the room, who was spinning a fine fabric, a double purple robe, with Trojans taming horses and Achaeans wearing bronze armor.

Fight.

For Helen, they suffered a lot under the arms of the God of War.

The swift-footed Iris stood beside her and said: "Come, dear girl, to see a wonderful scene, the wonders of the Trojans who tamed horses and the Achaeans in bronze armor."

Just now they were struggling in a painful battle, fighting in the wild, yearning for a fight to the death;

But now, they were sitting there quietly - the battle was over.

They leaned on their shields and stuck their thick spears into the mud beside them. However, Menelaus and Alexandros, whom Ares loved, were about to go to war. They would not hesitate to face the thick spears for you.

Spear.

"You will belong to the winner and be his beloved wife."

The goddess's words evoked sweet thoughts in Helen's heart, for her ex-husband, her parents and the castle.

She quickly put on her shining dress, shedding bright tears, and hurried out of the room. She was not sitting alone - two maids followed her to take care of her, Ezra, the daughter of Pytheus, and Bull Eyes.

of Crumene.

They soon came to the edge of the city where the Skaya Gate stood.

Priam was already in the city, surrounded by Pansus, Somoetes, Rampos, Clutius, and Hycateaon, Ares's attendants, and Ucalegon and

Antenor, two counselors with clear ideas.

They were sitting on the city wall above the Skaya Gate. These elders respected by the people were no longer involved in bloody battles due to their old age, but they still spoke eloquently and spoke clearly and translucently, just like the summer trees perched on the branches and fluttering in the green forest.

The cicadas' melodious cries were heard far and near. Just like this, the older leaders of the Trojans were sitting on the tower talking.

When they saw Helen walking along the city wall, they lowered their voices and exchanged winged words: "What a beautiful beauty! No wonder the Trojans and the sturdy Achaeans fought for years for her.

, endured so much hardship - who can blame them? She looks like the immortal goddess, so much like her! But no matter how beautiful she is, let her board the ship and go back to Greece, don't leave her behind, let us and

Our descendants are in trouble again!”

The elders put a veil on Helen, but they did not expect the stunning effect. The snow-white gauze covered her face, but it could not cover her well-proportioned contours and the wet tears on her face. The gauze was changeable.

Her curves made her look even more graceful. The princess walked quietly in front of the mighty military formation, looking for her husband among the many soldiers wearing armor and helmets.

In order to outline the details of the masterpiece, Strazza spent a long time carving it carefully. Fortunately, he used wax, which is not as difficult to modify as stone. After completing the work, he wanted to give it to her like Leonardo da Vinci.

He kept her, but she was too big to carry around like the Mona Lisa, so he had to hand her over.

Friedrich Schlegel once criticized the Romantics: If enthusiasm and the entire vitality are carried away too much, people will always feel that individuals take their own ideas and inspiration too seriously.

What comes out of here is just a bunch of confusion.

Romanticism is least suitable for governing a country.

At the end of the 18th century, there was also a romantic movement in Germany. When Wagner left Paris in 1842, the poor opera composer had already become famous and became the conductor of the Dresden court orchestra. But it didn't take long for him to feel unhappy.

His income could not sustain his luxurious living habits, and debts piled up. When he saw that his business and his art business were being strangled by financial interests, he drafted a reform program and gradually became a revolutionary.

Who would have thought that the fairy tale king Ludwig II would actually fall in love with a revolutionary who opposed the nobility and the money rule of civil society.

Art works can bring concreteness to passionate social movements, such as "Freedom Leads the People." What is freedom in this painting?

Freedom is the woman who does not shave her armpit hair. It is full of wildness. Unlike Greek women who pay attention to elegance, the Statue of Liberty on Swan Island and the Statue of Liberty in New York both wear Greek robes, but are they really free?

Napoleon longed for freedom and was unwilling to be bound by the constitution, but he also knew that unfettered freedom was harmful. Before he moved in, he ordered all the liberty hats in the Tuileries Palace to be covered.

He saw with his own eyes how Louis XVI was humiliated by wearing the cap of liberty, and at the same time he achieved his current status because of the wave of revolution. The most difficult thing for him was not to settle in the Tuileries Palace, but how to stay here.

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In 1871, the Paris Commune pulled down the Vendôme Column he had erected and burned the Tuileries Palace into ruins.

The Bhagavad Gita says:

Even if you have committed sins, you are more sinful than all sinners, as long as you board the ship of wisdom, you can overcome all sins.

Just as the burning fire turns the wood into ashes, so the fire of wisdom, O Arjuna, turns all actions into ashes.

Machiavelli once wrote in a letter to a friend: Everyone will pursue power and fame. Most people only see the glamorous side of power and fame, but cannot see the hard and unpleasant side it brings. If this

When both aspects are exposed to the sun, all but one of the reasons for pursuing power and fame will disappear. The remaining reason is that people think that the more they respect God, the closer they will be to God.

As a human being, who doesn’t want to be close to God?

In the end, Helen found Agamemnon first. He was the tallest and wore gorgeous armor. Next to him stood a man who was a head shorter than him. He looked stronger than when he left last time.

Helen, with her long skirt fluttering, took off the helmet on the man's face, revealing his face.

He was Agamemnon's brother Menelaus, the Mycenaean prince who married Helen and became the king of Sparta.

Her father, the King of Sparta, required everyone to swear an oath that no matter who married Helen, they would not harm the king's suitors because they opposed the marriage.

The British had to form an anti-French alliance anyway, and the "heroes" who participated in the Trojan War were not really all for Helen, but also for themselves.

But Prince Troy took Helen away, and their marriage was invalid in the eyes of others, even though he got Helen because of the favor of the God of Love, and the God of Love favored him because Paris gave the golden apple to Venus.

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Which one is more effective, the favor of a goddess or the vow between men?

Prince Troy is not Helen's husband. The "heroes" do not need to abide by the oath made by the old Spartan king. If they abide by this beginning, everyone will fight for Helen in the future. Whoever gets her anyway will not be invaded by their country according to the oath.

Other countries invade.

That would be extremely shameless and obscene.

The Trojan War should no longer be included in myths and eulogized by poets.

"So he replaced her sculpture because he thought she was harmful?" Severus asked Lyle Meyer.

"Wax cannot withstand fire or sunlight. If the temperature is too high, it will melt, just like the wings of Icarus. Do you think that sculpture represents the 'faith of God' or Helen?" Lyle

Meyer asked rhetorically.

Severus looked down at the veiled giantess on the "stage".

"Hegel once said that it is indeed a wonderful feeling to see a figure like Napoleon. He seemed to be born to ride on a horse, gallop around the world, and rule the world." Lyle Meyer said, "It's a pity that I can't see that.

One scene.”

"Because you don't have much time?" Lucius Malfoy said arrogantly, even though the tip of the dagger was pointed at his throat.

"Yes." Lyle Meyer said without concealment, "Now you swear to give me that map, and I will tell you how to enter that world!"

"Does anyone still believe in oaths now?" Lucius said sarcastically.

"You have just listened to the story for so long, and you haven't learned anything at all?" the old and immortal Lyle Meyer said, "You guys who won't grow up!"

The description of Helen is from the third book of the Iliad
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