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Farnese Atlas (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples). The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century CE Roman marble sculpture of Atlas holding up a celestial globe.Probably a copy of an earlier work of the Hellenistic period, it is the oldest extant statue of Atlas, a Titan of Greek mythology who is represented in earlier Greek vase painting, and the oldest known representation of the celestial sphere ...
The sculpture is in the Art Deco style of Rockefeller Center. The figure of Atlas in the sculpture is 15 feet (4.6 m) tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet (14 m) tall. [14] [15] It weighs 14,000 pounds (6,400 kg), [16] and is the largest sculpture at Rockefeller Center. [17] Atlas is depicted carrying the celestial vault on his shoulders.
Prometheus (1934) The world's most acclaimed sculptors produced some of the finest works seen in the United States by General Bronze. "Many visitors to Rockefeller Center have always admired the bronze statuary which helped make it one of the wonders of the modern world, such as the art deco Atlas by Lee Lawrie, and the Prometheus by Paul Manship."
Sculptures and statues can provide a fascinating insight into the time they were made. And sometimes, they contain little “secrets”—details that reveal the mind of the creator, or just make ...
Prometheus' torment by the eagle and his rescue by Heracles were popular subjects in vase paintings of the 6th to 4th centuries BC. He also sometimes appears in depictions of Athena's birth from Zeus' forehead. There was a relief sculpture of Prometheus with Pandora on the base of Athena's cult statue in the Athenian Parthenon of
The Arkesilas Painter was a Laconian vase painter active around 560 BC. ... Atlas and Prometheus. ... Thames and Hudson, London 1998 (World of Art), pp. 185–188, ...
The one shown presents the Olympian gods feasting around a tripod table holding the golden Apple of the Hesperides. [29] The Walters Art Museum. The Hesperides tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus the world ocean. [30]
Prometheus is an outdoor 1958 cast iron sculpture depicting the mythological figure Prometheus by Jan Zach, installed north of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, in the United States.