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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 4597805, member: 111387&quot;]I dunno about the various theories on what they might have been intended to portray on the original...</p><p><br /></p><p>But, these look like breastesses to moi.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/p720x720/14567405_1110914132319033_2106445612276164969_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&amp;_nc_sid=e007fa&amp;_nc_ohc=jn4wwd1waoMAX-8vHRy&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-sea1-1.xx&amp;_nc_tp=6&amp;oh=7ab32a21276d396287f2e2da3aa6813e&amp;oe=5F2072DB" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="4"><b>The Goddess of Nature</b></font></p><p>c. 1529</p><p>Marble</p><p>Musée National du Château, Fontainebleau</p><p><br /></p><p><i>This stand for an antique vase was designed by Tribolo. The attributes of Artemis of Ephesus have been adopted in highly explicit terms to create a Goddess of Nature.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Sixteenth-century French artists emphasized the link between nature and femininity in the polymast (many-breasted) figure of the goddess Nature, often depicted with many breasts, and draped in plants and many animals. A telling example is the polymast statue of Nature by Tribolo, designer of the Boboli Gardens, sent to François I around 1529 for the Palace of Fontainebleau.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, if you&#039;re ever in Paris, and wanting to visit a nearby Chateau affiliated with the former Kings and Queens of France(other than the Louvre)... Skip Versailles and the onslaught of touristic crowds, and hit up Chateau Fontainebleau.&nbsp; The much less frequented &#039;hunting lodge&#039; with its&#039; much longer/varied history is a fantastic gem worth visiting.</p><p><br /></p><p>The day that we were there, I swear that there was only a few other individual couples touring the entire place.&nbsp; We had whole chambers and galleries to ourselves for most of our time there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pleasant as opposed to this:</p><p><img src="https://s4.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20181221&amp;t=2&amp;i=1337712123&amp;r=LYNXNPEEBK1JS&amp;w=1280" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.travelweekly.com/uploadedImages/All_TW_Art/2015/071315/T0713VERSAILLES_HR.jpg?n=9500&amp;width=1540&amp;height=866&amp;mode=crop&amp;Anchor=MiddleCenter" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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