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The bas-relief, which originally measured 1.20 m by 0.685 m, depicted the sacrifice of a bull. However, it is now "very incomplete," [B 13] with only the left part remaining. The surviving part is irregular in shape, [C 3] measuring 0.684 m by 0.386 m on one side and 0.524 m by 0.230 m on another. [B 12] Only a third of the sculpture has been ...
The fountain depicts the legend of Leda and the Swan, with a central bas-relief panel by Achille Valois. It was originally located at the corner of the rue de Vaugirard and rue du Regard, hence the alternative name; however, in 1864, during the reconstruction of Paris by Emperor Louis Napoleon , the fountain was moved to the back side of the ...
The Back Series is a series of four bas-relief sculptures, by Henri Matisse. They are Matisse's largest and most monumental sculptures. The plaster originals are housed in the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. They were modeled between 1909 and 1930.
On both faces of the bas-relief are represented, with an excellent artistic workmanship far superior to that of the usual Mithraic sculptures, [2] the typical scenes of the cult of Mithras: Obverse of the bas-relief: the tauroctony. On the obverse there is the tauroctony that is the ritual and symbolic killing of a bull by the god Mithras.
CIMRM 641: Tauroctony scene on side A of a two-sided Roman bas-relief. 2nd or 3rd century, found at Fiano Romano, near Rome, now on display in the Louvre. In the upper corners are Helios with the raven, and Luna. Tauroctony is a modern name [1] given to the central cult reliefs of the Mithraic Mysteries in the Roman Empire.
The historic panel of the base, 5.65 metres long, 0.80 metres high and 0.015 metres thick, is a bas relief of Parian marble, depicting the different stages in a census of the Roman citizen body. [3] The relief, which is one of the first examples of the continuous narrative style, [m 3] is read from left to right and can be divided into three ...
Welcome to the world of Crysis 3, a deep jungle experience awaits you in the Dystopian New York setting as you battle through hordes of CELL operatives and search for the evasive Alpha Ceph...
According to the descriptive text found in the Atlas database of the exhibited works of art at the Louvre, the women also are wearing a kekryphalos, a hairnet in the Greco-Roman hairstyle, and appear to hold a type of flower, perhaps poppy or pomegranate. One of the women in the stele carries what resembles a bag, presumed to be carrying seeds ...