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The Colossus of the Naxians is a kouros statue made of Naxian marble which was about 9 metres high, [1] now located in the Museum on Delos and originally from one of the islands of the Cyclades. The colossus is an example of archaic monumental sculpture and dates to the end of the seventh century BC.
Statue of a Naxian marble Kouros found at Ancient Thera and on display in the National Archaeological Museum Athens. Naxian marble is a large-crystaled white marble which is quarried from the Cycladic Island of Naxos in Greece. It was among the most significant types of marble for ancient Greece and it continues to be quarried in modern times.
List of paintings by Frédéric Bazille; List of paintings by Arnold Böcklin; List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch; List of paintings by Sandro Botticelli; List of works by François Boucher; List of paintings by Eugène Boudin; List of paintings by Valentin de Boulogne; List of paintings by Ford Madox Brown; List of paintings by Pieter ...
This is a list of sculptors – notable people known for three-dimensional artistic creations, which may include those who use sound and light. It is incomplete and you can help by expanding it. It is incomplete and you can help by expanding it.
Scytho-Siberian art is the art associated with the cultures of the Scytho-Siberian world, primarily consisting of decorative objects such as jewellery, produced by the nomadic tribes of the Eurasian Steppe, with the western edges of the region vaguely defined by ancient Greeks.
The Slav Epic 1930 exhibition poster. Alphonse Mucha spent many years working on The Slav Epic cycle, which he considered his life's masterwork. He had dreamed of completing such a series, a celebration of Slavic history, since the turn of the 20th century; however, his plans were limited by financial constraints.
In his paintings the newly discovered laws of perspective were applied, the drawing of foreshortened parts was correct, and the anatomy of the human body was well understood. According to Giorgio Vasari , Masaccio owed his artistic education to Masolino da Panicale , but Masaccio, although he died 20 years before his master, carried the advance ...
The cave's most famous painting is a frieze of five bison, although renditions of many other animals, including wolves, are featured. Kapova cave in southern Ural Mountains (Russia) – presently 173 monochromatic ochre rock paintings and charcoal drawings or their traces are documented, presenting Pleistocene animals and abstract geometric ...