{"id":1223,"date":"2022-12-02T11:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T10:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2022-12-02T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T10:18:34","slug":"the-obelisk-of-luxor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/02\/the-obelisk-of-luxor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obelisk of Luxor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1002\" src=\"http:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Obelisque_Louxor-1024x1002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Obelisque_Louxor-1024x1002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Obelisque_Louxor-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Obelisque_Louxor-768x752.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Obelisque_Louxor-900x881.jpg 900w, https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Obelisque_Louxor-1280x1253.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oil on cardboard \u2013 8 x 8 inch \u2013 Unique work<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have this feeling that this monument has always been there and obviously, it is the oldest monument in Paris, even before the founding of the capital. Its manufacture dates back to the ancient Egyptian civilization. It was classified as a historical monument in 1937.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Come on, let&#8217;s go for a little history&#8230;<br> <br>The Obelisk of Luxor originally comes from the Temple of Amun at Luxor in Egypt and has been placed in the center of Place de la Concorde since 1836.<br> <br>The viceroy of Egypt Mehemet Ali offers Charles X the obelisk erected in front of the temple of Luxor, as a sign of goodwill. In exchange, Louis-Philippe 1st offered, in 1845, a copper clock which still adorns the Cairo citadel today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The obelisk, dating\nfrom the 13th century BC. AD, is 23 meters high and weighs 222 tons,\nto which must be added the 240 tons of the pedestal. Its summit is\n33.37 meters high. The obelisk itself is made of syenite (a pink\nrock, close to granites but very poor in quartz) from Syene (now\nAswan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top of this obelisk is surmounted by a pyramidion, 3.60 meters high, made of rolled sheet bronze, and gilded with gold leaf.<br> <br>Well, that&#8217;s all very instructive. But does it mean anything to you? I&#8217;m about to make a confession&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nstudied ancient Greek in middle school and high school. It came\nacross to me somehow\nby chance, following an interview with the principal at the time. Why\nnot I told\nmyself.\nAnd it really\ngot me.\nI still remember my first words, many\nyears later: \u03b7 \u03a3\u03b5\u03bb\u03ae\u03bd\u03b7 \u03bb\u03ac\u03bc\u03c0\u03b5\u03b9 (the moon is shining)!<br>\nAnd\nevery time I look at this obelisk, it\ncomes to my mind.\nIt is as if my youth came back to life thanks to this huge\nmonument. It almost makes you dizzy and yet perhaps it goes almost\nunnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to pay\ntribute to the Obelisk of Luxor with this small painting, very\nsimple, just the top of the obelisk against a blue sky background\nwith clouds that could as well be smoke. It would be like a spaceship\ncoming from elsewhere and suddenly landing in the middle of the Place\nde la Concorde in Paris. That&#8217;s not that far from the truth after\nall. I went so far as to put gold leaf on the pyramidion!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil on cardboard \u2013 8 x 8 inch \u2013 Unique work We have this feeling that this monument has always been there and obviously, it is the oldest monument in Paris, even before the founding of the capital. Its manufacture dates back to the ancient Egyptian civilization. It was classified as a historical monument in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidranne-painter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}