Capitoline Museum III

In September, 2023 I visited Rome and spent a delightful afternoon in the Capitoline Museum.  

Today I'm posting some more photos I took that day, starting with this Kassel type Apollo, 

said to be a Roman work in the style of the Greek Phidias.

 

Antisthenes

There's a room in the Palazzo Nuovo section of the Capitoline called the Salon of Philosophers.  It is filled with beautiful busts of mostly handsome men who were, not surprisingly, almost all Greeks.  This particular philospher was Antisthenes, a disciple of Socrates who specialized in ethics.

 

Greek

This is a stemless kylix pottery piece from Attica, Greece.

 

Hercules

This gilded bronze statue of Hercules was originally at the Forum Boarium.

 

River God I

This reclining figure is known to modern Romans as Marforio, but antiquarians have a split 

opinion as to whether he is a river god, Oceanus, or even Neptune.  Originally near 

the Arch of Septimius Severus, it is now in a courtyard of the Capitoline.

 

Omphalos Apollo

Omphalos Apollo is a Roman copy of the Greek original by Calamis.  None of Calamis'

work is said to survive, but there are several Roman copies extant.

 

Pindar the Poet

These two busts are said to be the same man, Pindar.  He was a Theban poet 

from the 5th Century B.C.  Oddly, there are another pair of busts in the 

Salon of Philosophers labeled as Pindar that do not look 

at all like this handsome gentleman.  Artistic license?

 

Triumph of Bacchus

 Pietro da Cortona painted The Triupmph of Bacchus in 1625.  

I've enlarged the most interesting part for you below.

River God II

This version of the river god Marfono was outside the museum on the street.  

It was originally in the Baths of Constantine as a depiction of the God of the Tigris, 

but was moved to the Capitoline area around 1540.

 

Hermes

Closing out the Capitoline set with Hermes, aka Mercury, from 170 A.D.

 

George Platt Lynes

It's George Platt Lynes day, and we start with the first of two appearance of Charles "Tex" Smutney.  This time he appears with Louis Forns in 1940.

 

Buddy McCarthy

We get a handstand from Buddy McCarthy in this photo.

 

Contact Sheet

I cropped this unknown model from a Lynes contact sheet.

 

Jimmie Daniels

Dancer Jimmie Daniels seems ebullient in this well composed photo.

 

2nd Wave Contribution

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Larry K. Contribution

Larry K. at The Unashamed Male sent me this photo of John Butler,

a model who also posed for the PaJaMa Collective.

Thanks, Larry!

 

Ralph McWilliams

Light and shadow combine well in this shot of Ralph McWilliams.

 

Bob O'Neil

This is Bob O'Neil as photographed on Fire Island in 1950.

 

Tex II

Tex Smutney has his natural brunette hair in his second appearance today.

This time his friend is Buddy Stanley, or so my source says.

 

Dynamics

The final photo in today's G.P. Lynes series has an enigmatic arrangement of men 

that makes me wonder about the interpersonal dynamics among them.

 

Newish Colt Images

I'm posting some of the more recent additions to my Colt 

collection today, starting with Shawn Wilson.

 

Unknown I

I like the pose, the unknown model, and the setting in this one.

 

Ken Conroy

I've seen this model generally referred to as Ken Conroy,

although one source says he also went by Ken Marcus.

 

Unknown II

The second of three unknown (to me) models in today's set posed with a statue.

 

Nino and Gary

When I first spotted this picture, I thought it was a Bob Mizer/AMG poolside image.

Turned out to be Jim French going a bit off type.

 

Gavin Blake

An online auction site says that Jim French published 

this photo of Gavin Blake under the Rip Colt marque.

 

John Corvello

This is John Corvello.

 

Unknown III

 I'm hoping one of you knows this model's name because I'd really like to see more of him.

Angelo Korda

This is Angelo Korda in an outdoor setting.

Nice hair pattern.

 

Too real

For a moment I thought our final Colt images was one of those ultrarealistic art pieces.

It isn't.  It's Andy Miller as photographed by Jim French.