Louvre - Hippomenes et Atalanta

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKV85ocni7pizeNbrl-a99aYfWDR8I3h95Ge4Eq8Q3rhMiOHy7oMUedfc5gfYG1zTKl8TTMa5yNVdMIF46FhfyR-GQiE3w-d6xs048CzaMmsTxuhYmhNIhZsxsMWVTwkkJlWzncr1z00E/s1600/2012++Mar+29_5165DSC_5160.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" pca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKV85ocni7pizeNbrl-a99aYfWDR8I3h95Ge4Eq8Q3rhMiOHy7oMUedfc5gfYG1zTKl8TTMa5yNVdMIF46FhfyR-GQiE3w-d6xs048CzaMmsTxuhYmhNIhZsxsMWVTwkkJlWzncr1z00E/s640/2012++Mar+29_5165DSC_5160.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Photographing these sculptures in Cour Marly at the Louvre on my last visit, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I recalled having seen them in a different setting.  </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>First, the story</u>:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From Greek mythology, Atalanta was a huntress who agreed to marry any man that could outrun her in a race.  Hippomenes fell in love with her and prayed to Aphrodite to help him.  In response she gave him three irresistible gold apples to help him in the race.  As they ran, Hippomenes tossed the apples at intervals to distract Atalanta therefore winning the race and her hand in marriage.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><u>Now, the other sighting</u>:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the frozen cold of December, these Greek heroes were racing on a frozen pond of Jardin des Tuileries as I noted in a </span><a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2011/02/jardin-des-tuileries-en-hiver.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>post of February 3, 2011</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHfxHNpJn3zC1HNs0lD3ylqXmk4TrEqS4TwfK51hlESWzSlePlOPpLnGMPxoeTtK3NAcUVRls230CEB3o3oqRUQ659NrhMSPOWFJ0Kabl38QXLndbB5CrtKbnz9SRpPbavA0Lc7LUpjnM/s1600/2010+dec+paris+4+DSC_0114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="451" pca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHfxHNpJn3zC1HNs0lD3ylqXmk4TrEqS4TwfK51hlESWzSlePlOPpLnGMPxoeTtK3NAcUVRls230CEB3o3oqRUQ659NrhMSPOWFJ0Kabl38QXLndbB5CrtKbnz9SRpPbavA0Lc7LUpjnM/s640/2010+dec+paris+4+DSC_0114.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Cour Marly, Louvre</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>75001, Paris</em></span>

Louvre - Hippomenes et Atalanta

Photographing these sculptures in Cour Marly at the Louvre on my last visit, I recalled having seen them in a different setting.  First, the...

Read more »