Sculpture
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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 ×
Apollo and Daphne (Bernini)
Sculpture · Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (1625) is the defining Baroque sculpture, marble caught at the instant Daphne turns to laurel to escape the god.Crosses Baroque × Sculpture × Greek Mythology. Reference.
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
Zbruch Idol (Svetovid)
Sculpture (limestone, pre-Christian Slavic cult pillar) · Anonymous (West Slavic stonecutter, 9th or 10th century CE)
The Zbruch Idol is a 2.67-meter limestone pillar with four faces sharing a single conical cap, discovered in 1848 in the Zbruch River near the village of Lychkivtsi in what is now western Ukraine. It
Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)
Sculpture (bronze, Chola dynasty) · Anonymous (South Indian, Chola period, c. 10th-12th century CE)
This bronze figure of Shiva as Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance, is one of the canonical artifacts of Hindu metaphysics and the single most-reproduced image of South Indian Chola-period sculpture. Shiv
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
