My Quiet Country Cottage

 

In response to very nearly one request, he's a shot of my own personal forest retreat, where i commune with nature, and consume heroic quantities of mushrooms.

No, I'm lying. Obviously.

It's the Jardins du Trocadéro from the Eiffel Tower.

Bonus - 

Just Chuck It In The Fidget Bucket

 

Good Grief.

OK, maybe I can understand an Art Lover photographing great works of art to remind him of visits, or to inspire them.

But, when the photograph is this crappy...just Chuck It Out.

Yet, this photographer not only kept it, but they labelled it.

1983 09 Chatsworth  Scwanthaler Girl and Woodman

So that's this. 

Bonus - Weebl's Capybara song.

The Greek Runner

 

A statue by William Blake Richmond.

Obviously.

Bonus : 

Another classic

Danish Nudes

 

Greetings Art-Lovers.

I'm sure you'll recognise the sculptural genius of J.A. Jerichau, especially the pair on the right Adam and Eve before the Fall.

I'll let you figure out what the other sculptures are.

Bonus -

Frightening

If Looks Could Kill....

 

The morning after the night before, and Mrs Miggins does not being photographed, in bed, in a man's pajamas, while her husband is on a 8-month tour of duty on HMS Vengeance.

Of course, it was entirely innocent, but at at that moment.... like six out of seven dwarves, she was not happy.

Bonus - 25 years ago...

The R_pe of Polyxena

 

Something a bit different today. A bit of Culture, and the slide says

Pio Fede 1866 R*pe of Polyxena  Loggia des Lanzi

So, that's nice.    More info here, if you want it.  Yes, I did censor the title of this post - Google can get funny about certain words...

Bonus - Getting a Handle on Sales: Shopping Carts Affect Purchasing by Activating Arm Muscles

"Damn, I'm Rock Hard"

 

" I wonder if I can hide it with....uh. I guess not."

Actually, the slide is labelled "1986 06 Jerichau NY Carlsberg", which naturally leads to the Ny Carlsberg museum, but it appears that this is actually Slaven now at the Brandts.

Bonus - The mysterious worldwide epidemic of Encephalitis lethargica. The disease attacks the brain, leaving some victims in a statue-like condition, speechless and motionless. Between 1915 and 1926, 500,000 dead or incapacitated from it. It disappeared as mysteriously as it came in to the world.