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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 2:59:05 GMT
I had to look up what those words meant! Really nice Pictures.
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Post by ilbonito on Apr 7, 2010 4:06:22 GMT
There's a killer example of this in Buenos Aires (which was largely modelled on Paris). A building called the Edificio Otto Wulf - originally the Embassy of the Austrohungarian Empire! - is supported by huge figures of chained slaves.
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Post by gertie on Apr 22, 2010 22:33:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2010 15:42:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2010 15:45:49 GMT
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Post by fumobici on May 2, 2010 18:04:19 GMT
Paris must be the world capital of these. I'm struggling to remember seeing more than an isolated few anywhere else.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2010 16:36:16 GMT
I think I took every single one of these photos on the Right Bank. I am trying to think of some on the Left Bank!
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Post by fumobici on May 4, 2010 2:14:29 GMT
Apparently insufficiently gauche
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2010 21:50:31 GMT
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Post by lola on May 7, 2010 3:08:26 GMT
Caryatids and telemones add such class to a city.
They are sensuous somehow. The moss on Patrick's added to that effect.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2010 21:40:14 GMT
More coming up. Can you imagine that I only just realized that the Louvre has a bunch of them?
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2010 19:12:07 GMT
Here is the top of the former Paramount Opéra cinema. (Now the top of part of the Gaumont Opéra megaplex.)
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Post by lagatta on May 9, 2010 22:49:06 GMT
Still Rive droite. I think there are plenty in le Quartier latin, and probably down in the 13th and 14th. Any on Ile St-Louis?
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2010 17:03:23 GMT
Still looking... a friend sent me a couple from the 14th arrondissement.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 20:46:01 GMT
I found these on the Left Bank yesterday, all along the Seine...
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 20:59:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 21:04:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2010 21:08:31 GMT
Cherubs have been put to work at the Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville department store, although I saw a few who were slacking off.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2011 17:53:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2011 15:12:29 GMT
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Post by mossie on Jul 17, 2011 18:51:37 GMT
Here are a couple I spotted on the left bank a few years ago
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Post by Kimby on Jul 17, 2011 18:59:17 GMT
If they had arms, they could support that balcony in a more comfortable way!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2011 18:29:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2012 18:21:57 GMT
at the 5-star Shangri La Hotel in Paris
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At the Belleville Arts Open Doors in Paris in 2007
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Post by ssander on Feb 11, 2012 0:48:15 GMT
Here are a few: Bad photo angle -- but I think it's Opera in Paris: And a great fountain in the Jewish Quarter of Rome: ...and does this count? Painted caryatids in Plaza Mayor in Madrid: SS
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Post by koloagirl on Feb 17, 2012 1:40:25 GMT
;D Aloha from Kaua'i! I love learning new words - can someone give me a phonetic spelling of how to pronounce caryatids?? I'm afraid to give it a try! I love the police station "dying slave" caryatids - I just noticed them last September while on the Promenade Plantee and I was mightily impressed - and kind of befuzzled to find out they decorated a lowly police station! But in Paris, of course!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2012 14:42:52 GMT
Aloha Ms. Koloa & what have you been up to?! I looked up caryatid so I could pass you one of those pronouncing links. That's when I found out I'd been pronouncing it incorrectly. Well, it didn't matter since I'd only pronounced it in my head, not having any opportunity to use it in conversation. Click on the speaker icon: dictionary.reference.com/browse/caryatidLove the painted figures, SS. They appear to have been copied from well-known paintings. Don't know about the one on the left, but the top right one smacks of the Sistine chapel ceiling & the bottom right one of some Renaissance madonna or other.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2012 18:03:15 GMT
That is not how I would pronounce it, so we probably pronounce it the same way, Bixa -- relatively close to the French pronunciation.
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Post by bjd on Feb 17, 2012 19:14:47 GMT
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Post by koloagirl on Feb 18, 2012 2:20:16 GMT
;D Aloha from Kaua'i! So it says phonetically it would be pronounced Carry-a-tid - but the 3 of you say you pronounce it differently - realistically I'm more likely to be actually saying the word in Paris - so what would be your best approximation to the way you pronounce it? I've been around - just lurking here and elsewhere and dreaming of Paris and finally getting to the point now where I am booking our return trip for September of this year - halleleujah!!! I had a minor medical problem when I was there last year, so this year I am looking forward to days of exploring and nights as well - as opposed to last year when I shut down around 6pm every night for the most part - lol! So - caryatid - ? What would be your choices for pronunciation? I hate it when you find words like this and put them in your brain for later, but really don't know how to pronounce them out loud!! lol Malama Pono (take care) Janet ;D
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