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Piraeus Apollo.Archaic-style bronze. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. The Piraeus Apollo is an ancient Greek bronze sculpture in the archaic style from the 2nd or 1st century BC [1] (or possibly an earlier work dating 4th or 3rd century BC [2]), exhibited now at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Athens.
The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and stone: the Archaic (from about 650 to 480 BC), Classical (480–323 BC ...
In the case of bronze, the main innovation in their history for Greek sculpture was the development of the lost wax technique but its principles were already masterfully handled in the Severe period, with a diversified application. Therefore, Classicism benefited from the fact that the main sculptural techniques had already been refined enough ...
The Riace bronzes are major additions to the surviving examples of ancient Greek sculpture. They belong to a transitional period from archaic Greek sculpture to the early Classical style, disguising their idealized geometry and impossible anatomy [ 10 ] under a distracting and alluring " realistic " surface.
The excavations uncovered an ancient warehouse that had been burned down, which contained two groups of statues and other artefacts. [9] Athena was found along with a not-quite-life-size bronze statue of Artemis, a large, bronze tragic mask, two marble herms , two bronze shields, and a small marble statue of Artemis Kindyas.
The Artemision Bronze (often called the God from the Sea) is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea, Greece. According to most scholars, the bronze represents Zeus , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the thunder-god and king of gods, though it has also been suggested it might represent Poseidon .
For decades, Britain and Greece were able to differ, largely politely, over the world's toughest cultural heritage dispute: What's the right place for some of the finest ancient Greek sculptures ...
The Charioteer of Delphi, also known as Heniokhos (Greek: Ἡνίοχος, the rein-holder), is a statue surviving from Ancient Greece, and an example of ancient bronze sculpture. The life-size (1.8m) [1] statue of a chariot driver was found in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. [2] It is now in the Delphi Archaeological Museum.