- Stinky_Pete
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Good afternoon, fine art lovers and livers alike. There's a mural I saw, and it looks like this
What I'm trying to figure out, just racks my brains right up, is what those things on the ram's horns are. Do you know? I Googled "ram ornaments," but all I got was diddly squat
I mean the one on the left. I can see how maybe the middle one has plants and bells
they're not spinal cords, are they?
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Jul 6, 2017 01:19
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- byob historian
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I'm an animal abusing piece of shit! I deliberately poisoned my dog to death and think it's funny! I'm an irredeemable sack of human shit!
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they look kinda like earrings
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Jul 6, 2017 08:30
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- alnilam
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a braid of garlic?
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Jul 6, 2017 12:56
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- Bert Roberge
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They look like ribboned braids or long hair to me.
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Jul 6, 2017 16:59
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- i am he
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looks like some sort of garland type thing. also the shadow of the rams head looks like a rams body. art.
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Jul 6, 2017 17:00
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- alnilam
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*me reading the thread title* sure thing but it looks pretty heavy
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Jul 6, 2017 17:56
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- Stinky_Pete
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Thanks for the help, everyone. One day I'll find the thing repeated elsewhere, and now I have some new terms to get me there
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Jul 6, 2017 19:51
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- deep dish peat moss
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It's called Making History by John Wehrle
Specifically what you're looking for is called bucrania ornamenting or bucranium
Bucranium (plural bucrania; Latin, from Greek βουκράνιον, referring to the skull of an ox) was a common form of carved decoration in Classical architecture used to fill the metopes between the triglyphs of the frieze of Doric temples. A bas-relief or painted decor consisting of a series of bucrania draped or decorated with garlands of fruit or flowers was a Roman motif drawn from marble altars, which have survived in some number; the motif was also later used on Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical buildings. The name is generally considered to be a reference to the practice of garlanding sacrificial oxen, the heads of which were displayed on the walls of the temples, a practice with a long history reaching back to the sophisticated Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in eastern Anatolia, where cattle skulls were overlaid with white plaster. A rich and festive Doric order was employed for the Basilica Aemilia on the Roman Forum; enough of it was standing for Giuliano da Sangallo to make a drawing, c 1520, reconstructing the facade (Codex Vaticano Barberiniano Latino 4424); the alternation of the shallow libation dishes called paterae with bucrania in the metopes reinforce the solemn sacrificial theme. With time, during the sixteenth century, the connection with sacrifices faded and bucrania became part of a decorative vocabulary that evoked "Roman-ness".
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Jul 7, 2017 15:57
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- deep dish peat moss
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For once that art history class I took 9 years ago comes in handy!!
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Jul 7, 2017 15:57
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Smoke 'em if you gottem!
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It's called Making History by John Wehrle
Specifically what you're looking for is called bucrania ornamenting or bucranium
Bucranium (plural bucrania; Latin, from Greek βουκράνιον, referring to the skull of an ox) was a common form of carved decoration in Classical architecture used to fill the metopes between the triglyphs of the frieze of Doric temples. A bas-relief or painted decor consisting of a series of bucrania draped or decorated with garlands of fruit or flowers was a Roman motif drawn from marble altars, which have survived in some number; the motif was also later used on Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical buildings. The name is generally considered to be a reference to the practice of garlanding sacrificial oxen, the heads of which were displayed on the walls of the temples, a practice with a long history reaching back to the sophisticated Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in eastern Anatolia, where cattle skulls were overlaid with white plaster. A rich and festive Doric order was employed for the Basilica Aemilia on the Roman Forum; enough of it was standing for Giuliano da Sangallo to make a drawing, c 1520, reconstructing the facade (Codex Vaticano Barberiniano Latino 4424); the alternation of the shallow libation dishes called paterae with bucrania in the metopes reinforce the solemn sacrificial theme. With time, during the sixteenth century, the connection with sacrifices faded and bucrania became part of a decorative vocabulary that evoked "Roman-ness".
Thank you very much!
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Jul 7, 2017 16:01
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- alnilam
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Another byob success story
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Jul 7, 2017 16:04
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- Gay Weed Dad
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cool dude, flyin' high
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I have just been calling them cow earrings this whole time!
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Jul 7, 2017 17:25
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- Stinky_Pete
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thanks deep dish peat moss, you're my hero!
i can't believe anyone thinks education is a waste of time
You can turn the tables, but your feet will still be under them
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