Nike Winged Victory of Samothrace Statue

Paul Ringstrom · Post by **Paul Ringstrom** » Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:58 pm

If you have ever wanted a large one of these for your home or garden, but all you could find is those puny 12"H or 16"H, here is one that is 25.5W x 20D x 40.5H in.

http://www.hayneedle.com/product/design ... MgodZEoA7w

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:51 am

They discount it because of the missing head.

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 10:18 am

A nifty hood ornament for that special someone who drives a Hummer.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 9:57 pm

Sounds like the Spirit of Ecstasy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_Ecstasy

SDR

DRN · Post by **DRN** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:13 am

I've always seen in my mind's eye a similarity between Winged Victory and Spirit of Ecstacy...I found the perfection and grace of Ecstacy appropriate to a Rolls, and "took the leap" of seeing the rough and tumble patina of Winged Victory as befitting the bull in a china shop that is the Hummer.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:55 am

Right. The "wings" of the Spirit are really the billowing fabric of her garment, I guess; in many views they look more like the wings of some lowly insect -- a moth, or blowfly, or something.

I hadn't been aware that the single surviving wing of the Victory was mirrored -- a good move for display, though probably troubling to some purists ?

SDR

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:02 pm

I'm partial to the swan that graced the Packard. So appropriate, a lovely bird on the hood of a car that looked like an inverted bath tub.

lang · Post by **lang** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:04 am

Art grade resin, what an elegant way of saying, "plastic".