{"id":7556,"date":"2011-02-09T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2015-06-27T14:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T06:29:40","slug":"2311-of-ares-borghese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=7556","title":{"rendered":"[2311] Of Ares Borghese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Ares, the God of War, as he stands in a gallery in the Louvre. The Roman sculpture is about 2,000 years ago, which is a copy of an older Greek bronze statue lost to antiquity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110128louvreAres.jpg?w=500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110128louvreAres.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110128louvreAres.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110128louvreAres.jpg?w=1813&amp;ssl=1 1813w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110128louvreAres.jpg?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/maddruid.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/20110128louvreAres.jpg?w=1740&amp;ssl=1 1740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little research reveals that it is called Ares Borghese because the Borghese family of Rome collected this sculpture and owned it until the Louvre bought it in 1807.<\/p>\n<p>I am no expert in Roman sculpture. The sculpture simply amused me in a very childish way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Ares, the God of War, as he stands in a gallery in the Louvre. The Roman sculpture is about 2,000 years ago, which is a copy of an older Greek bronze statue lost to antiquity. A little research reveals that it is called Ares Borghese because the Borghese family of Rome collected this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17,9],"tags":[1298,1301,1299],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-heritage","category-photography","category-travels","tag-ares","tag-musee-du-louvre","tag-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14991,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions\/14991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}