Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1820 "Sea Monster" (7)

  Usman often comes up with good ideas, but every time he turns these brilliant ideas into reality, he is terrible.

  He likes straight streets, and especially likes to build some grand buildings on both sides of the streets. This idea is not bad, but he will make frequent mistakes when he starts to operate, such as hitting the Louvre's penthouse when he is building the Avenue of the Opera.

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

Napoleon III always wanted to determine the exact location of the previous battle between Caesar and Gaul. This move promoted the rapid development of French archaeology. Archaeologists did discover some ancient ditches and ditches in the Alesi region. The Gallic coin, and the former battlefield and later archaeological site, erected a huge sculpture of Wessengetorix. The sculptor used the features of Napoleon III to depict this work.

Portraits, sculptures and other art works often have their prototypes. The prototype of the city sculpture of Strasbourg on the Place de la Concorde is the portrait of Victor Hugo’s mistress and Juliet Drouet. After the Franco-Prussian War, her sculpture It was once covered with black gauze.

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte is Italian. Although his painting is far inferior to Leonardo da Vinci, the female features of the painting are still recognizable.

  At first, people didn’t believe that Napoleon I could paint. Later, Napoleon III thought that the botched painting was his uncle’s work, so people copied her image and painted a bust.

  After the sculpture was completed, people began to talk about who the prototype of this painting was, just as people now discuss who is the prototype of the Mona Lisa? Later, someone suddenly discovered that this bust looked exactly like the work in his own collection, and that it was a work by 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" from the officer's private collection. The two sculptures were taken 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. Instead, he asked someone to remove the sculpture of the goddess of harvest, and then made a wax figure covered with a veil, which was misinterpreted for some reason. , The wax figure that was supposed to be covered with a veil became the same as the veiled female sculpture in the Louvre. At the time, Giovanni Straza was responsible for this work, an Italian born in Lombardy in 1818, 1850 When he finished the sculpture of the Virgin Mary wearing a veil in 1970, it caused a great sensation. Through the thin layer of veil, one can see the tranquil and flawless beauty of the meditating Virgin.

  After becoming famous, he worked as a sculpture professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. When the French found him, he was troubled by the long-term inability to break through his bottleneck, as if the veiled Madonna is the pinnacle of his creation.

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

Napoleon I bought an anatomical wax figure in Florence. When the Art Committee placed the order, there was no hope, but when it was finally completed, the work was beyond imagination, but Straza himself said that his inspiration was not the source. Yu Cladini is not the Virgin, but Helen, the beauty described in Homer's epic poem "Iliad."

Iris found Helen in the room. The latter was spinning an exquisite fabric, a double-layered purple robe, woven with Trojan horses and Achaeans wearing copper armor. Fight.

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

  Iris, with her legs and feet fast, stood beside her, and said, “Let’s go, dear girl, to see a wonderful scene, a wonderful work created by the Trojans who train horses and the Achaeans in bronze armor.”

  Just now they were still struggling in the painful battle, killed in the wild, and yearned for a desperate fight;

  And now, they are sitting there quietly-the battle is over.

  They leaned on the shield, thrusting their thick spears into the mud beside them. However, Menelaus and Alexandros, who Ares beloved, are about to go to war, and they will not hesitate to face the thick spear for you.

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

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

She quickly put on a shiny dress robe, shed tears, and hurriedly walked out of the room, not alone-the two maids followed and took care of them, Esra, the daughter of Pisius, and the bull's eyes. Crumenets.

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

Priam was already in the city, surrounded by Pensus, Sumoites, Rampos, Crutius, and Sikaitaon, Ares’s companions, and Ukkar workers and workers. Antenol, two counselors with clear thinking.

  They are sitting on the city surface above Skaja Gate. These elders respected by the people are no longer **** battlefields due to their age, but they are still eloquent and speak clear and bright, like perching branches. Xia Cicada in the winged green forest has a tuned voice, and it is rumored to be far and near. Just like this, the leaders of the older generation of Trojans sat and talked about 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 sturdy Achaeans fought for her. , With hardships and hardships-who can blame them? She looks like an immortal goddess, she looks so much! But no matter how beautiful she is, let her board the ship and go back to Greece. Don't leave her, let us and Our children and grandchildren are suffering again!"

The elders put on a veil for Helen, but they couldn't think of the amazing effect. The snow-white veil covered her face, but it could not cover her symmetrical silhouette and the wet tears on her face. The tulle was changeable. The curve makes her look more feminine. The princess walked quietly in front of the mighty army, looking for her husband among the many armored and helmeted soldiers.

In order to outline the details like that of the divine work, Straza has been sculpting 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 like Leonardo. Stayed, but she was too big to carry with him like Mona Lisa, so he had to hand her over.

Friedrich Schlegel once criticized romanticists in this way. If the enthusiasm and the whole vitality are overwhelmed, people will always feel this way. Individuals value their own ideas and inspirations too much. From here is just a mess.

  Romanticism is the least suitable for governing a country.

  At the end of the eighteenth century, Germany also had a romantic movement. When Wagner left Paris in 1842, the down-and-out opera creator had 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 maintain his luxurious living habits, and his debts piled up like a mountain. When he saw that he and the art business were strangled everywhere by financial interests, he drafted a reform program and gradually moved towards the ranks of revolutionaries.

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

  Art works can bring concrete images to passionate social movements, such as "Freedom Leads the People". What is freedom in this painting?

  Freedom is the woman who does not shave her armpits. It is full of wild nature. 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 yearned for freedom and did not want to be bound by the Constitution, but he also knew that unrestrained freedom was harmful. Before he moved in, he ordered people to cover all the freedom caps in the Tuileries Palace.

He saw with his own eyes how Louis XVI was humiliated by wearing the Liberty Hat. At the same time, it was because of the wave of revolution that he had his current status. The most difficult thing for him was not to enter the Tuileries, but how to stay here .

  In 1871, the Paris Commune pulled down the Vendome column he had erected, and burned the Tuileries to ruins with a torch.

  Bhagavad Gita sings like this:

  Even if you are guilty of sin, it is more sinful than all sinners, as long as you board the ship of wisdom, you can overcome all sins.

  Just like a burning fire, turning wood into ashes, the fire of wisdom, Arjuna! Turn all actions to ashes.

Machiavelli once wrote in a letter with his friends: Anyone will pursue power and reputation. Most people only see the glorious side of power and reputation, but not the other side of the hardship and unhappiness that it brings. Both aspects are exposed to the sun. Except for one reason for pursuing power and reputation, the others will disappear. The remaining reason is that people believe that the more respected God is, the closer he will be to God. As a human being, who doesn't want to be close to God?

  Finally, Helen found Agamemnon first. He was the tallest, wearing gorgeous armor, and standing beside him was a man who was a head shorter than him. He looked stronger than when he was parting last time.

  Helen, who was dancing in the long skirt, untied the helmet on the man's face, revealing her face.

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

  Her father, the King of Sparta, requires everyone to swear that no matter who marries Helen, he will not harm the king’s suitor because of opposition to this marriage.

  Anyway, the British must form an anti-French alliance. Those "heroes" who participated in the Trojan War were not really all for Helen, but also for their own merits.

But the prince of Troy snatched Helen, and in the eyes of others, their marriage was invalid, even though he got Helen because of the love of Eros, and Eros favored him because Paris gave the golden apple to Venus. .

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

Prince Troy is not Helen’s husband. The "heroes" do not need to abide by the vows made by the old Spartan king. If you abide by this beginning, everyone will rob Helen in the future. Anyway, whoever gets her, his country will not be taken under the vow. Attacks from other countries.

  That would be extremely shameless.

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

   "So he replaced her sculpture because he thought she was harmful?" Severus asked Lyle Mayer.

"Wax can't stand the fire or the sun. It will melt if the temperature is too high, just like Icarus's wings. Do you think that sculpture represents the'faith of God' or Helen?" Lyle Mayer asked rhetorically.

  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 on a horse to ride the world and rule the world." Lyle Meyer said, "It's a pity that I can't see that. One scene."

   "Because your time is running out?" Lucius Malfoy said proudly, even though the tip of the dagger was facing his throat.

   "Yes." Lyle Meyer said without concealment, "Now you swear to me that map, and I will tell you how to enter that world!"

   "Is anyone still swearing?" Lucius said sarcastically.

   "You have just listened to the story for so long, haven't you learned it at all?" The old and dying Lyle Mayer hated iron and steel and said, "You little kids!"

  　The description of Helen is the third volume of Iliad

  (End of this chapter)