Monday, November 30, 2009

The Angel

Caryatid angel, 57 rue de Turbigo, Paris

Caryatid angel
Rue de Turbigo
Quartier des Arts-et-Métiers, 3rd arrondissement
Paris, July 2002

8 comments:

Luis Gomez said...

This one is really beautiful. Great angel.

Lowell said...

Okay, being, as you know, a bit of an ignoramus, I had to look up the word, "caryatid." But, wait, before you laugh too loudly, I had heard of the word before.

So, this lovely lady is actually holding up the building! With her wings. That's wings of power!

P.S. To Trillian - thank you so much for your very kind comments regarding our new great-grandbaby! You are very sweet!

VP said...

@ Jacob - I am not even sure that a bas-relief could be called a caryatid...

Unknown said...

Wow! I love this building!

cieldequimper said...

At last something I have already seen. Very nice photo.

Tinsie said...

Beautiful! I like Caryatids (even bas-relief ones haha)!

tapirgal said...

So striking! And pink or orange windows at the top, too. Nice!

Babzy.B said...

So huge !!! Never seen it :)