Comments on: Ladies in waiting http://22gether.clfotonline.com/2015/08/27/ladies-in-waiting/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: clfoto http://22gether.clfotonline.com/2015/08/27/ladies-in-waiting/#comment-55 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 01:59:08 +0000 http://22gether.clfotonline.com/?p=675#comment-55 Thanks, Will, for identifying the figures and giving some context, So now I think I get it – the designer/developer left for a Greek island tour while the building was being built, and came back inspired to add some Greek design to the building. However, it was too late to do anything other than put those statues up. Well, that’s my made-up backstory now, at least … ;-)

]]> By: Will Leben http://22gether.clfotonline.com/2015/08/27/ladies-in-waiting/#comment-53 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:08:16 +0000 http://22gether.clfotonline.com/?p=675#comment-53 Someone in Melbourne must have been inspired by Ancient Greece! Those statues look like Caryatids, and how interesting that there are five–the same number as at the Parthenon. (There used to be six, but Lord Elgin made off with one, which is on view at one of your favorite lunch hangouts, the British Museum! )

Read more here: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/c/caryatid_from_the_erechtheion.aspx

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