Munich

Oct. 28th, 2014 09:52 pm
ewx: (penguin)
[personal profile] ewx
Next stop was Munich.

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Chapel ceiling in the Residenz.



Munich has a bit of a gnome problem:

Balcony gnomes and flags

...though it must be said this is an improvement over the apparent history of dragon infestation:

Dragon

Building down the road from our hotel:

Trompe-l'œil painting

Seating

Pro-Russian protestors:

Pro-Russian protestors

Münchner Statdmuseum. The snake represents heresy, so in modern terms the meaning seems to be a call to sectarian violence.

Putto

The chicken basilisk represents pestilence.

Putto

Paläontologische Museum.

Archaeopteryx + relevant T-shirt

Naath with Smilodon.

Naath with Smilodon

Glyptotek.

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Outside the Glyptotek.

Outside the Glyptotek, Munich.

Just opposite is the state Collection of Antiquities. Leda again.

Leda and the Swan

Asamkirche, a fairly modest little place l-)

Asamkirche, Munich

Bavarian National Museum. C5th Roman depiction of the Ascension.

Women mourning Christ & the Ascension

Implausibly nonchalant Saint Sebastian.

Saint Sebastian and archers.

Michael apparently dozing off while defeating the devil.

Archangel Michael

Bored-looking Saint Sebastian, apparently as popular a subject in the middle ages as Leda was in earlier times.

Saint Sebastian.

Residenz. “You’re not here for the shooting, are you?”

Saint Sebastian.

Diana on a stag. A component of a drinking game, you fill it up with wine.

Diana on a stag

The sleeper to Berlin was a bit on the compact side!

Sleeper train

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Date: 2014-10-28 10:40 pm (UTC)
emperor: (Phoenix)
From: [personal profile] emperor
That's particularly fine trompe l'oeil.

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Date: 2014-10-30 08:49 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com
It is. I think we passed it most or all days while in Munich.

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