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Khafre Enthroned is a Ka statue of the King Khafre, who reigned during the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.It is now located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.The construction is made of anorthosite gneiss (related to diorite), a valuable, extremely hard, and dark stone brought 400 miles down the Nile River from royal quarries.
Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter (c. 510 BC), currently held in the National Museum, Warsaw. Sappho (/ ˈ s æ f oʊ /; Greek: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
King's Building Foyer is the old entrance hall of the building. Two marble statues of Sappho and Sophocles are placed in the foyer. They were bequeathed in 1923 by Frida Mond, the wife of Ludwig Mond and a friend of Israel Gollancz, Professor of English Language and Literature at King's College London. [4]
Konrad Knoll, ca. 1860. Konrad Knoll (9 September 1829 – 14 June 1899) was a German sculptor.. Born in Bad Bergzabern, Konrad Knoll studied first under the renowned sculptor and priest Bernhard Würschmitt, before travelling in 1845 to Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, and then to Munich under Halbig, attending the academy from 1848 to 1852.
Sappho Square, where the statue of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho is located [22] Statue of Liberty (Mytilene) Theofilos Museum [23] Yeni Mosque, Mytilene; Valide Mosque, Mytilene; The Roman aqueduct of Mória [24] Teriade Meseum [25] Agora of Ermou street [26] Stoa of Mytilene, Hellinistic stoa in the area of Epano skala [27]
Another important object from Arundel's collection is the so-called Arundel Head, a Hellenistic bronze portrait of a philosopher or king from Asia Minor now in the British Museum. [ 3 ] The Arundel marbles were catalogued as early as 1628, when, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton , John Selden compiled a catalogue: Marmora ...
The earliest English equestrian statue. Originally commissioned in 1630 by Charles I's Lord Treasurer, Sir Richard Weston, for his house Mortlake Park in Roehampton. Erected on the site of the Charing Cross in 1674–5, when the pedestal was carved by Joshua Marshall. [18] Temple Bar Gate, Paternoster Square c. 1670–2: John Bushnell
On one of the cases fastened against the wall is displayed a bronze tile depicting a scene from the Odyssey: A man, probably Odysseus, tied under the belly of a ram is possibly escaping from the cave of Polyphemus; another tile depicts Heracles carrying the Erymanthian boar to king Eurystheus, who hides in a jar, terrified. Finally, simae from ...