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Apollo Belvedere
Sculpture · Roman copy after Leochares
The Apollo Belvedere (Roman copy of a Greek bronze, in the Vatican) was for centuries the ideal of classical male beauty, the touchstone Winckelmann built Neoclassical taste around.Crosses Sculpture ×
Laocoon and His Sons
Sculpture · Hellenistic Greek (Vatican)
The Laocoon group (Hellenistic, in the Vatican since 1506) is one of the most influential sculptures in Western art, the Trojan priest and his sons crushed by sea serpents.Crosses Sculpture × Greek My
Attic Black-Figure Hoplite Amphora
Vase (Attic black-figure pottery, c. 540 BCE) · Anonymous (Attic black-figure painter, c. 540 BCE)
This black-figure belly amphora depicts hoplites, heavily-armored Greek infantry, flanked by lions and sphinxes in the characteristic decorative-narrative composition of Attic black-figure pottery of
