From 1455 until 1487 the rival houses of Lancaster, with a badge of a red rose, and York, with the badge of a white rose, fought a series of battles known as

“The War of the Roses”


This is the blog of a college student who has moved from her hometown of Lancaster, California to Garden City, New York to attend Adelphi University

Friday, November 20, 2009

Is that you?

So I LOVE Art History! Like, a lot. I really do soak up all of the information I learn in class, and most of the time the class is pretty serious.

Sometimes, however, Catherine and my favorite thing to do is talk about who in modern day resembles the portraits being shown to us.

For instance, Caracalla (who totally killed his brother to avoid having a threat to the throne, and as Catherine says, sure looks like he could "kill a fool") looks a lot like Victor Krum from Harry Potter and Gerard Butler.




This is probably my favorite resemblance though! Oh, disclaimer, I mean no offense to anyone with this, promise.


Take a look at this mosaic entitled "Christ as Good Shepherd" which is the entrance wall mosaic of the Mausoleum of Gall Placidia in Ravenna Italy.



Beautiful right? Now look at the sheep.


Look really hard.



Who does this remind you of??????































BUCKBEACK!!!!!!! The Hippogriff!!!!!!!!! Yes? No?


I officially have to add a Harry Potter tag now, since it has been mentioned twice in this one post. lol.


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3 comments:

  1. I thought the sheep's face resembled Voldemort more.

    Although I can see a little Buckbeak in there too.
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  2. I thought it resembled me. Though, I have been told I am an uglier version of Buckbeak. Don't yell at me for not reading Harry Potter. I've watched all the movies, which are much less boring than the books.
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  3. First thing that came to my mind was a Velociraptor from Jurassic park
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