Harry Potter Morning Light

Chapter 1820 "Sea Monster" ([-])
Osman often comes up with great ideas, but each time he's been terrible at turning those brilliant ideas into reality.

He likes straight streets very much, and especially likes to build some imposing large buildings on both sides of the street.It was a good idea, but when he started to operate, he would make mistakes frequently, such as hitting the Louvre's wing when building the Avenue des Opera.

When widening these old streets, some cultural relics will inevitably be involved. In 1860, workers accidentally fell into a pile of strange relics when they were reorganizing the basement. This place was originally intended to build a luggage storage.

Napoleon III always wanted to determine the exact location of the previous decisive battle between Caesar and the Gauls. This move promoted the rapid development of French archaeology. Archaeologists did discover some ancient ditches and ditches in the Alessi area Gaul coins, so the former battlefield, and later the archaeological site erected a huge sculpture of Vesengetorix, and the sculptor used the features of Napoleon III to portray this work.

Art works such as portraits and sculptures often have their prototypes. The prototype of the city sculpture of Strasbourg on the Place de la Concorde uses the portrait of Victor Hugo's mistress, Juliet Drouet. After the end of the Franco-Prussian War, her sculpture It was once covered with black veil.

The sculpture originally erected at this entrance was a short woman whose image was derived from a painting painted by Napoleon.

Napoleon Bonaparte was an Italian. Although his paintings were far inferior to those of Leonardo da Vinci, the facial features of women in that painting were still recognizable.

At first, people didn't believe that Napoleon I could paint, but later Napoleon III felt that the poor painting was the work of his uncle, so people imitated her image and painted a bust.

After the sculpture was completed, people began to discuss who is the prototype of this painting, just like people are discussing who is the prototype of Mona Lisa now?Later, someone suddenly discovered that this bust looked exactly like the works in his collection, and it was the work of Antonio Canova.

Napoleon III went to check and found that the sculpture was indeed a person. At the same time, he also took a fancy to the sculpture "Cupid's Kiss" in the private collection of the officer. The two sculptures were transported away together, and one of them was placed in the Louvre. Palace, another statue is placed at this entrance.

Then one day, Napoleon III had a dream. He didn't say anything specifically, but asked someone to remove the statue of the Harvest Goddess, and then asked someone to make a wax figure covered with a veil. I don't know how it was misinterpreted. , the wax figure that was supposed to be covered with a veil became the same as the veiled female sculpture in the Louvre. Giovanni Strazza, who was in charge of this work at the time, was an Italian born in Lombardy in 1818. When he completed the sculpture of the Madonna wearing a veil in 1850, it caused a great sensation. Through the thin layer of veil, it seems that the quiet and flawless beauty of the contemplative Madonna can be seen.

After he became famous, he served as a sculpture professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. When the French found him, he was distressed by the long-term inability to break through his bottleneck, as if the statue of the Madonna wearing a veil was the pinnacle of his creation.

The author of the veil sculpture in the Louvre is Anthony Cradini, who was born in Venice in 1688. This sculpture was originally stored in the private collection of a nobleman in Venice, and was bought by the Louvre in 1976. .

Napoleon I once purchased anatomical wax figures in Florence. When the art committee placed the order, he had no hope, but the final work was beyond people's imagination, but Straza himself said that his inspiration was not the source. For Cladini, it is not the Virgin Mary, but the beautiful Helen described in Homer's epic poem "Iliad".

In the room Iris found Helen, who was weaving and spinning a fine cloth, a double purple robe, in which was woven a trojan with horses and an Achaean in bronze armor with endless numbers. fight.

For Helen, they suffered so much under the arms of God of War.

Iris stood beside her with quick feet, and said, "Come, my dear girl, to see a wonderful spectacle, made by the hands of the Trojans who tamed the horses and the Achaeans in the bronze armor."

Just now they were still struggling in the painful battle, fighting in the wild, yearning for the desperate struggle;
And now, they sat there quietly—the battle was over.

They lay leaning on their shields, thrusting their long spears into the mud beside them.However, Menelaus and Alexandros, beloved by Ares, are about to go to war, and they will not hesitate to face long spears for you.

"You will belong to the winner and be his beloved wife and room."

The goddess' words evoke sweet thoughts in Helen's heart, for her ex-husband, her parents and the castle.

She quickly put on her shining gown, shed bright tears, and hurried out of the door, not sitting alone—two maids followed and took care of her, Esla, the daughter of Picius, and the bull's eye Krumenai.

They soon came to the edge of the city where the Skaya Gate stood.

Priam was already in the city, surrounded by Pansus, Somoites, Rampus, Crutius, and Hichetaon, the companions of Ares, Ucaregon and Antenor, two counselors with clear thinking.

They sat on the city wall above the Skaya Gate, these elders respected by the people, no longer bloody in battle because of their age, but still eloquent and clear in their conversation, like dead branches.The melodious calls of the summer cicadas flapping their wings in the green forest are rumored far and wide.Just like this, the leaders of the older generation of the Trojans sat on the tower.

When they saw Helen walking along the city wall, they lowered their voices and exchanged winged words: "What a beautiful beauty! No wonder the Trojans and the greaved Achaeans have fought so many years for her." , and painstaking—who can blame them? She looks like a goddess of immortality, she is absolutely perfect! But however beautiful she may be, let her go to Greece on board, don't leave her behind, let us and Our children and grandchildren will suffer again!"

The elders put on a veil for Helen, but they couldn't think of a stunning effect. The snow-white veil covered her face, but it couldn't cover her well-proportioned outline and the wet tears on her face. The tulle was changeable. Her curves make her look more feminine.The princess walked quietly in front of the mighty army, looking for her husband among the soldiers in armor and helmets.

In order to outline the details like a masterpiece, Straza worked hard for a long time. Fortunately, he used wax, which is not as difficult to modify as stone. After finishing the work, he wanted to give her to him like Da Vinci. Stayed, but she was too big to carry around like the Mona Lisa, so he had to hand her over.

Friedrich Schlegel once criticized the Romantics in this way, if the enthusiasm and the whole life force are carried away too much, people always have this feeling, the individual takes his own ideas and inspirations too seriously, From here it's just a bunch of chaos.

Romanticism is the worst form of government.

At the end of the eighteenth century, there was also a romantic movement in Germany. When Wagner left Paris in 1842, the down-and-out opera composer had already become famous, and he became the conductor of the Dresden court orchestra.But it didn't take long for him to feel unhappy. His income could not support his lavish lifestyle, and his debts piled up.When he saw himself and the art business being strangled by money interests everywhere, he drafted a reform program and gradually moved towards the ranks of revolutionaries.

Who would have thought that the fairy-tale king Ludwig II fell in love with a revolutionary who opposed the aristocracy and the money rule of civil society.

Works of art can bring concreteness to passionate social movements, such as "Freedom Leading the People", what is freedom in this painting?
Liberty is the woman who does not shave her armpits. She is full of wildness, unlike Greek women who pay attention to elegance. The Statue of Liberty on Swan Island and the Statue of Liberty in New York both wear Greek-style robes, but are they really free?
Napoleon longed for freedom and was unwilling to be bound by the constitution, but he also knew that unfettered freedom was harmful. Before he moved in, he ordered people to cover all the liberty caps in the Tuileries Palace.

He saw with his own eyes how Louis XVI was humiliated by wearing the Liberty Cap, and at the same time, he gained his current status because of the wave of revolution. The most difficult thing for him was not to settle in the Tuileries Palace, but how to stay here .

In 1871, the Paris Commune pulled down the Vendome Column he had erected, and burned the Tuileries Palace to ruins.

In the Bhagavad Gita it is sung thus:
Even if you have committed a sin, more sinful than all sinners, as long as you board the ship of wisdom, you can overcome all sins.

As the burning fire turns the wood to ashes, the fire of wisdom, O Arjuna!Reduce all actions to ashes.

Machiavelli once wrote in a letter with his friends: Anyone will pursue power and fame, and most people only see the glamorous side of power and reputation, but not the other side of the hard work and unhappiness it brings. With both aspects exposed to the sun, all but one of the reasons for power and fame would disappear, the reason remaining being that people thought that the more reverence one had for God, the nearer he would be to God, and the life And as a human being, who doesn't want to be close to God?

In the end, Helen found Agamemnon first. He was the tallest, wearing gorgeous battle armor, and beside him stood a man who was a head shorter than him. He looked stronger than when he parted last time.

Helen with her long skirt fluttering untied the helmet on the man's face, revealing his face.

He was Agamemnon's brother Menelaus, the prince of Mycenae who became king of Sparta by marrying Helen.

Her father, the king of Sparta, made everyone swear that whoever married Helen would not intend to harm the king's suitors by opposing the marriage.

Anyway, the British wanted to form an anti-French alliance, and the "heroes" who participated in the Trojan War were not really for Helen, but also for themselves.

But Prince Troy snatched Helen, and in the eyes of others, their marriage was invalid, although he got Helen because of the favor of Venus, and the favor of Venus was because Paris gave the golden apple to Venus .

Which is more effective, the favor of the goddess or the oath between men?

Prince Troy is not Helen's husband. "Heroes" don't need to abide by the oath made by the old Spartan king. If they abide by this beginning, everyone will rob Helen in the future. Anyway, whoever gets her, according to the oath, their country will not be destroyed. other countries invaded.

That would be extremely shameless and obscene.

The Trojan War should no longer be included in mythology and eulogized by poets.

"So he replaced her statue because he thought she was harmful?" Severus asked Lyle Meyer.

"Wax cannot withstand fire or sunlight. If the temperature is too high, it will melt, just like the wings of Icarus. Do you think that sculpture represents 'God's Faith' or Helen?" Lyle asked Meyer.

Severus looked down at the veiled giantess on the "stage".

"Hegel once said that it is indeed a wonderful feeling to see a character like Napoleon. He seems to be born to ride a horse, ride the world, and rule the world." Lyle Meyer said, "It's a pity that I can't see that scene."

"Because you're running out of time?" Lucius Malfoy said haughtily, even with the point of the dagger at his throat.

"Yes." Lyle Meyer said unabashedly, "You swear to me now that map, and I will tell you how to enter that world!"

"Does anyone still believe in oaths now?" Lucius said sarcastically.

"Haven't you learned anything from the story you just heard for so long?" the old and immortal Lyle Meyer said bitterly, "You boys who don't grow up!"

　The description of Helen is the third book of the Iliad

　
(End of this chapter)