Venetic Woman's Bronze Girdle (600th) by sandra46
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This is my 600th posting, and it is also March 8th, Women's day, so I'm posting a very beautiful specimen of a Venetic woman's bronze girdle (6th century BC) from an Iron Age necropolis at Oppeano, near Verona , These kind of lozenge girdles (you see only the lozenge-shaped front, but it has also the bronze belt) were used only by very aristocratic women in a wide area from central and northern Italy, to Austria, Bohemia, Slovenia and Croatia.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Comments (54)
KarmaSong
What wonderful and extraordinary skills people had back then, without the intervention of computers and sophisticated machines! A magnificent capture indeed and a really masterpiece that has gone through time ...
dakotabluemoon
Ouch that looks like it would hurt great find hon.
AidanaWillowRaven
Awesome!
Leije
Wonderful object, excellent capture !
spiegel428
Good shot and fitting for women's day!
tennesseecowgirl
This is beautiful, the colors and details are really amazing... congratulations on number 600 I think I am getting close to that. :)
Valeriya
Wow! Thanks for the information and the wonderful view!
mickeyrony
Whoooooo... So old and a great decouverte ((5++))
Isabelle711
Congrats my friend on this being your 600th posting. :)))))) The details pn this beauty are amazing. :)))) Most excellent capture of history my friend. :))))) Thank you for sharing all of the beauty you see. :)))) Carry A Warm Smile In Your Heart :))))
Jean_C
Superb and interesting old object, excellent capture! And thanks for all the precious infos you give with your images!
sharky_
I can't imagine how they would look like in this girdle? Closest I can come up with is Wonder Woman. Interesting post and congrats. Aloha
Hendesse
Fantastic shot, superb colors and textures.
A_Sunbeam Online Now!
It's lasted well! Nice shot.
Richardphotos
congrats on 600 and a gallery to be proud. hard to imagine a woman or even a man wearing something like this.
icerian
What a nice ancient piece! Thank you Sandra for sharing.
dochtersions
WOW, you've captured such interesting and beautiful treasures archaeological on your gallery, Sandra. And what a 'cool' blue color this Bronze has.
bobrgallegos
Wonderful color and textures in this awesome capture! Congrats on number 600!
rachris480907
Congratulations on your 600 posts, Sandra! Wow! These historic postings you're doing are really interesting. Thanks for sharing them!
jarmila
Molto interessante, bellissimi colori, ciao
blondeblurr
Just look what age does to bronze or copper - just brilliant! it may have been mighty uncomfortable - but the details on it are amazing, BB
junge1
Congratulations on your 600th Sandra. This a beautiful capture of this unique piece of apparel!
KatesFriend
The colour and workmanship is very striking. Whoever made this was very gifted and skilled to be sure. Though, I can not imagine wearing such a thing.
nikolais
lovely shot!
anahata.c
I thought I'd commented on this as it was your 600th image---but I see I haven't! So here goes. First, as a photograph, it's a smashing capture of a museum display; your light, your deference to the black around it (you didn't lighten it---assuming you didn't create it, which would be another fine choice), the shadowed pedestal, and your angle all make for a fine museum capture---an art that is very difficult, and which is often practiced by very experienced museum photographers. Beautiful detail in the carving, etc. Then there's the question of the girdle: I assume that girdles had the same function in that age as they did in the 20th century? (To gird the waist, hips, etc?) I don't know. If this is worn as an undergarment---or even over a garment---lord, those women must have had a cumbersome burden to bear. The design itself is beautiful (though broken up by age), and the lozenge shapes are beautiful decoration, if not actual symbols. You bring us beautiful pieces of history, and very old history, and some of the narrative as well; all of which I'm grateful for. A fine capture of a strange beautiful object, and hard to imagine that women actually had to wear these things...(People complain about unnatural fabrics today...man, bronze has got to leave a lot to be desired...)