Displacement activities

[elingregory]

On the whole I'm inclined to agree with charliecochrane's Orlando Coppersmith when i look at a sculpture like this:



Look at that jaw and those shoulders. That's never a girl.

Comments

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

And, as my old dad used to say, terrible trouble with biting her nails!

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

:D sad isn't it? I'm kinda imagining her with her spear in one hand and the other raised to wag the Mum-finger at the Spartans.

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

Being woefully broad-shouldered for a girl myself, I have to protest!

However, in a more serious vein, as some artists used male models even when depicting a female (I think it is well-documented for Michelangelo's sibyls in the Sistine Chapel), Phidias (if this is a copy of the Lemnian Athena and not a misattribution) may have done the same.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think it is something like the Lemnian Athena. If it's a Roman copy that could explain the extra fleshiness. Romans seem to have preferred greater bulk when I've seen Roman copies alongside the remains of what they copied.

Are you one of those lucky ladies who can wear a shawl or a shoulder bag without it falling off all the time? I always wanted proper shoulders instead of a bit of a bump where my neck merges with my arm.

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

Shoulder bags are not a problem indeed (but looking dainty and delicate is impossible).

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Last time I looked dainty and delicate was when I was 12. Puberty, and too many Mars Bars, put paid to that :D