Your guess is as good as mine - maybe even better.
These two terra cotta figures are on a wall of the courtyard of the Palazzo Barbaro. I have no idea what they represent or what they are for - if they are for anything. Sensible or amusing suggestions welcome. There seems to be some sort of bracket between them, which I did not notice when I took the photo.
posted by Bert at 11:48 PM
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It looks like a goat's head between their legs and their faces look canine, yet their bodies are android. Ah, mythology - when we have lost the meaning of the symbols, we have lost the meaning of the myth.
I can't think of anything sensible or amusing, Bert!
My daughter thought it might be something heraldic - supporters for a family shield originally mounted in between the two.
Nice figures and such a beautiful wall! I have never took so many photos of walls as in Venice:)
If there's a hole behind the goat(?)'s head, I would say they were used as cressets, for holding torches...
(Sorry, if my English isn't correct, foreign language for me.)
As the feet are resting in what seem to be soft leather pouches, so not taking much of the body-weight, which is all in the centre, and the hands are restrained behind the torso; as there's something very odd spiralling at the shoulders, and they are wearing horned head dresses above their dog-like faces ... then perhaps they are just very "Hang Dog"?
Venice's bobsleigh team for the Olympics
Very difficult to decide who to vote for: andante with "hang dog" or Anon with bobsled. The dog-faces certainly look much more serious than I do at the moment after reading those two guesses.
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