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A statue of Apollo I've never seen before!

Is it sad that I kinda envy his sandals?

http://www.ancientsculpturegallery.com/S032.html

Only $12,000

Why on earth does no one make smaller replicas out of something other than marble or concrete of the statues that I want? A nice shrine-sized cast-resin version would be wonderful. Seriously. I don't need something that is literally the same height as me. Apollo himself is tall enough.

I just came across this blog entry :
Bad Web Design Warning!!!
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-cM5BH9g.dqc8reyqv.K710U-?cq=1&p=256

And in the entry, this picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Hermes-louvre3.jpg

This is interesting. The first thing that struck me about this picture was the face on the statue. I can't remember the last time I've seen a face n a statue that looked so genuinely human (to me anyway)

The second was the body- very real. I looked at the picture for a minute, expecting it to start moving. Alas, jpegs do not move :-P

The other thing, the one thing that keeps this from being an absolutely astounding statue in my eyes is that the head and body are so out of proportion with each other, the head is so tiny. Also, the angle makes it look like it was photoshopped in.

Wonder what Hermes thinks of it? :-P