Greek Mythology
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Pygmalion and Galatea
Painting (oil on canvas) · Jean-Léon Gérôme
Ovid's account of Pygmalion in the Metamorphoses is a single short story embedded in a longer poem about transformation. A sculptor of Cyprus, repulsed by the women of his city, carves an ivory statue
Diana of Versailles
Sculpture (marble, Roman copy of Greek original) · Unknown Roman sculptor after Leochares (4th c. BCE)
The sculpture is a Roman marble of the first or second century CE, copying a Greek bronze attributed to the Athenian sculptor Leochares from around 325 BCE. This double provenance (Greek original, Rom
The Rape of Proserpina
Sculpture (marble) · Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Bernini was twenty-three when he carved the Rape of Proserpina, finished in 1622 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The technical achievement that defines the sculpture is the deformation of marble flesh
