Have Your Very Own Greek Vases
From Greek vases to Italian marble statues, people just can’t get enough of quality museum replicas for their homes and offices. It is small wonder, of course, that folks should wish to surround themselves with timeless classic beauty. Indeed, museum replicas can lend elegance and even authority – the authority of tradition, the gravitas of high culture – to any setting, imbuing a sense of importance to one’s own endeavors in such an environment.
Bronze sculpture is also popular among museum replica connoisseurs for just those reasons. Don’t laugh; it is true. Such showpieces symbolize one’s erudition and, even, personal nobility. Art definitely communicates those qualities, anyway, on behalf of their owners. And here’s the curious thing: it all sounds so crass, ironically, given the high-minded perception that generally surrounds art!
The very act of wishing to connect oneself with some past glory seems pretentious at best and downright absurd at worst. Yet it is a fine line between true aesthetic appreciation of the informed sort and mere fashionable accessorizing of one’s residence or workplace.
Museum replicas let us all to play the part of a refined collector of antiques – not “antiques” in the now commonly debased sense of someone’s grandmother’s grandmother’s quilt abandoned at a yard sale, but treasures of the ancients now ours to enjoy. The pottery of ancient Greece is not only stunning but bear witness to one of the most intellectually remarkable civilizations of mankind.
And who has not gasped at the workmanship of a David, an Augustus Caesar, or an Ecstasy of Saint Teresa? These are some of the most prized examples of Italian inspiration anywhere, for all time, and owing one puts us in touch with the human capacity for creativity, the cultural heritage of our species. They lift us from the everyday into a realm of the spirit.
ANTIQUE ITALIAN STERLING SILVER EX VOTO SACRED HEART
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Old Stone Oven 4467 14-Inch by 16-Inch Baking Stone $32.99 Professional pizza and traditional European bread ovens are often lined with stone or brick. This is so heat is stored up and redistributed evenly. The resulting blast of heat from the Old Stone Oven rectangular pizza stone gives bread and pizza a nice chewy crust. The rustic French tarts called galettes are also well suited to a baking stone. To use the stone, place it in a cold oven and preheat … |
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Oxo Stainless Steel Strainer, Double Rod 6 strainer is 14 in overall length, with a2-1/2 deep bowl. 8 strainer is 16 in overall length, with a 3-1/2 deep bowl. 6 and 8 indicate diameters including the outer rim of the bowl.Available in 6 and 8 sizes, the Oxo Good Grips strainers feature fine mesh for straining vegetables, berries, pasta and more.Stainless steel double rod construction makes these strainers extra sturdy, anda small loop l… |
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RSVP Endurance® Salt Server with Spoon $17.99 Your favorite gourmet salt will be easily accessible at the table or in the kitchen with our salt server. Durable stainless steel frame holds an 8-oz. glass bowl and features a unique flip-top lid with silicone gasket to keep your salt fresh and dry. Dishwasher safe but we recommend hand washing….. |
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Mob Hits – Music From and a Tribute to the Great Mob Movies $12.39 As you may already know from seeing it hawked incessantly on late-night TV by Jerry Vale, Mob Hits is a compilation CD that attempts to capture the ambience of the modern gangster pic by assembling songs heard in key scenes of such films as The Godfather, GoodFellas, Donnie Brasco, and Casino. While licensing restrictions keep the music of Frank Sinatra from being part of this collection (odd, as … |
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Bellini – Norma / Patane, Caballe, Vickers, Veasey, Theatre Antique d’Orange $27.27 NORMA (BELLINI) – DVD Movie… |
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Cecilia Bartoli – If You Love Me (Se tu m’ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs $8.67 The 17th-century Italian art song repertory traditionally reserved for novice singers is given new life via Bartoli’s artistry. With impeccable diction and evocative phrasing, she captures every innuendo of these simple, but passionate, pieces. No two repetitive phrases are alike; she chisels every line into a landscape of interpretive magnificence. Scarlatti’s simple “O Cessate di Piagarmi” becom… |
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Die Hard / Trilogy [VHS] $4.98 Christmas is not a good time of year in the McClane family. Especially for John McClane, who always happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But if it weren’t for the heroics of this rugged, resourceful cop, many lives would be lost and megalomaniacal terrorists with various European accents would be having their evil way. In 1988, director John McTiernan and the phenomenal hit Die Har… |
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Besieged [VHS] $4.95 Two disparate worlds come together in thoroughly unexpected ways in this intriguing film directed by Academy Award winner Bernardo Bertolucci. The opening sequence, in an impoverished, unnamed African dictatorship, is painfully intense: we watch in horror as the movie’s heroine, Shandurai (serenely beautiful Thandie Newton), witnesses the brutal arrest of her husband, a rebellious reformer. Then … |
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Caballe, Vickers in Norma (Bellini -Patane, Caballe, Vickers, Veasey, Theatre Antique d’Orange In Italian with English subtitles. From July 20, 1974 performance…. |
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Ocean’s Twelve $1.25 They’re back. And then some. Twelve is the new eleven when Danny Ocean and pals return in a sequel to the cool caper that saw them pull off a $160 million heist. But 160 million doesn’t go as far as it used to. Not with everyone spending like sailors on leave. Not with a mysterious someone stalking Danny and crew. It’s time to pull off another stunner of a plan?or plans. With locations including A… |
