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Look on my beard ye Mighty - and despair?
Do we know where that statue is?
Do we know where that statue is?
It's The sleeping Barbarossa in the Kyffhäuser Mountains.Look on my beard ye Mighty - and despair?
Do we know where that statue is?
The Barbarossa or Kyffhäuser legend
According to the legend, Emperor Frederick I., also known as Barbarossa, did not die but was bewitched in a cave underneath the Kyffhäuser Mountains. There he sleeps on his throne, his faithful servants at his side, awaiting his return.
His head rests in his hands and his red beard grows around the stone table. Every one hundred years he wakes up and sends one of his servants to look whether the ravens still circle the mountain. If so, the emperor goes back to sleep. The ravens represent discord and misfortune and will be cast out by an eagle at the end.
According to the legend, his beard needs to grow around the table once – in other versions three times – to disenchant the spell. If he should wake up one day, he will set out to his last battle between good and evil at Walserfeld.
Or Cthulhu, but with a beard instead of tentacles.thank you!
so he's a version of King Arthur?
Isn't Robin Hood also one of these folk-heroes-in-a-hill who are supposed to return to save us when everything's going to poop? Anyway, they're taking their bloody time, the lazy twits...
Indeed! I shall come over all Bad Lecturer if they do rock up.
What time is this meant to be?
Where is your homework?
I seem to be missing essays from the following...
“We’re talking about a most extraordinary political statement here,” he said. “The first freestanding western-style sculpture created in Australia, and what is it but a statement about the contempt held towards the government of the day? It’s pretty amazing. There’s nothing to compare it with.”
When the museum took possession of George in 2023, little was known about the statue’s origins or age. The piece was donated by “a prominent Hobart family” who wished to remain anonymous, Tassell said. It is believed the family had held the statue for seven decades.
A year on, research has established that the sandstone used for the sculpture was quarried in Ross, in Tasmania’s midlands, and the style of dress George sports – carved in intricate detail by the artist – dates the work to between 1820 and 1840.
George’s creator has been identified as Daniel Herbert, an English stonemason whose death sentence for highway robbery was commuted to transportation for life in 1827.
Researchers have concluded that the benefactor most likely to have commissioned the work was William Kermode, a wealthy Tasmanian maritime merchant and midlands landowner
“Given the depth of ill-feeling between Kermode and Arthur, it is feasible to consider that Kermode might commission a functioning statue of Governor Arthur urinating over the people of the colony,”
Saw that at the awesome Wolverhampton Art Gallery.Created by Chila Burman, the sculpture reflects her father's voyage to the UK from India on the HMS Battory, with his ice cream van, The Rocket, taking centre stage.
Wish I could see what it looks like under the water!
Die Badende (the Bather) is a 98ft long Styrofoam and steel statue by artist Oliver Voss, in Hamburg's Binnenalster Lake.
Wish I could see what it looks like under the water!
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They'll be handing out swords soon.An American version was created a year later.
The Lady in the Lake in Elberta, Alabama:
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