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Sphinx of Naxos

The Sphinx of Naxos, also Sphinx of the Naxians, now in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, is a 2.22 meter tall marble statue of a sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a woman, the chest and wings composed of the impressive feathers of a prey bird turned upward, and the body of a lioness.
The Sphinx stood on a 10 meter column that culminated in one of the first Ionic capitals, and was erected next to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, the religious center of Ancient Greece, in 560 BCE.
The first fragments were excavated from the sanctuary of the Temple of Apollo in 1860. The remainder was found in 1893.

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Famous Sculptures of the Galleria Borghese, Rome

The Galleria Borghese Museum houses and displays a collection of ancient sculptures, bas-reliefs and mosaics, as well as paintings and sculptures dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries.
Among the masterpieces of the collection - the first and most important part of which goes back to the collecting of Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1579-1633), nephew of Pope Paul V - are paintings by Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, Correggio, Antonello da Messina and Giovanni Bellini and sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Antonio Canova.
The works are displayed in the 20 frescoed rooms that, together with the portico and the entrance hall, constitute the spaces of the Museum open to the public.
More than 260 paintings are housed in the storerooms of the Galleria Borghese, which are located above the floor of the Pinacoteca and set up like a picture gallery.

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Cristoforo Stati (Italian, 1556-1619) | Adone and Venere, XVI-XVII | Installation Galleria Borghese

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Anton Chekhov: "Only one who loves can remember so well"

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / Антон Павлович Чехов (1860-1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.
His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre.
Chekhov was a physician by profession.
"Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress".

"Il ruolo dell'artista è porre domande, non fornire risposte".
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them".

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Monument to Anton Chekhov and Lady with the Dog | Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine

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Ivan Malinowski | Adesso è il momento..!

Adesso è il momento di fare ciò che ti piace.
Non aspettare lunedì, non aspettare domani.
Non fare allungare davanti a te la carovana
di sogni calpestati. Non aspettare.

Non frenarti per paura o viltà.
Non posporre la vita con altra morte,
e non aspettare niente dalla sorte
che non sia più della tua tenacia e della tua energia.

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Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883-1950)

Ethel Léontine Gabain, later Ethel Copley, was a French-Scottish artist.
Gabain was a renowned painter and lithographer and among the founding members of the Senefelder Club.
While she was known for her oil portraits of actresses, Gabain was one of the few artists of her time able to live on the sale of her lithographs.
She also did etchings, dry-points, as well as some posters.

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