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  2. Ancient Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Heracles of Antikythera - Wikipedia

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    The body is 2.50 m. tall and its unattached head is 65 cm, making it a larger-than-life statue. [1] The sculpture represents Heracles at rest, leaning on his club; it is a Hellenistic copy of the Heracles of Lysippus (dated around 320 BC), of the same type as the Farnese Hercules. [2] [3]

  4. Classical Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Today the formal patterns of classical Greek sculpture, its humanism and emphasis on the nude have found a new way to impress society, influencing the conception of beauty and practices regarding the body, resurrecting a cultivation of the physical that was born with the Greeks and influences various customs related to sexuality and the concept ...

  5. Farnese Collection - Wikipedia

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    The Farnese Hercules at the Naples National Archaeological Museum. The Farnese Collection is one of the first collections of artistic items from Greco-Roman antiquity.It includes some of the most influential classical works, including the sculptures that were part of the Farnese Marbles, their collection of statuary, which includes world-famous works like the Farnese Hercules, Farnese Cup ...

  6. Venus de Milo - Wikipedia

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    Since the statue's discovery, it has become one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture in the world. The Venus de Milo is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose Roman counterpart was Venus. Made of Parian marble, the statue is larger than life size, standing over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. The statue is ...

  7. Archaic Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    In bronze sculpture, the Minoans showed great skill, having developed the lost-wax technique, [9] and the period is particularly important because it consolidated a whole mythical process around the creative process, personified in the figures of the god Hephaestus, the masterful craftsman, and Daedalus, a legendary character who is credited ...

  8. Apollo of Gaza - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo of Gaza is a rare bronze sculpture of Magna Graecia of the Ancient Greek god Apollo found in the Gaza Strip in 2013. It was put for sale on eBay, and subsequently withdrawn and seized by police thanks to the publication of the story along with photographs by the Italian journalist Fabio Scuto on la Repubblica.

  9. Hermes of Andros - Wikipedia

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    The craftmanship and harmony of this statue has been much praised, as one of the finest surviving statues in Greece. It has been described as having all the naturalness, delicacy and grace that is missing from the similar statue Atalante Hermes, [5] which is not Praxitelean but rather has Lysippean characteristics, and is made of Pentelic ...

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