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Venus de Milo

Aphrodite of Milos (Greek: Αφροδίτη της Μήλου, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created at some time between 130 and 100 BCE, it is...

x Art Subject:: Venus

x Artist:: Alexandros of Antioch

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Winged Victory of Samothrace

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a third century B.C. marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated...

x Art Subject:: Nike

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x Period or Movement:: Hellenistic Greece

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Apollo Sauroctonos

The Apollo Sauroctonos (Apollo Lizard-killer) is a 1.49m high ancient sculpture in the Louvre, as Inventaire MR 78 (n° usuel Ma 441). It is a 1st - 2nd century AD Roman marble copy of an original by Praxiteles. It shows a nude adolescent male about...

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Slaves

"Slaves" (c. 1513-1515) is a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti.

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x Artist:: Michelangelo

x Period or Movement:: Italian Renaissance,; Renaissance

x Date Completed:: 1515

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

Antonio Canova's statue Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, first commissioned in 1787, exemplifies the Neoclassical obsession with love and emotion. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, immediately after awakening the...

x Art Subject:: Cupid

x Artist:: Antonio Canova

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x Date Completed:: 1793

River God

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x Artist:: Pierino da Vinci

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x Date Completed:: 1548

Nymph with Scorpion

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x Artist:: Lorenzo Bartolini

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x Date Completed:: 1837

Wounded Niobid

"Wounded Niobid" (1822) is a sculpture by Swiss-born French artist James Pradier.

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x Artist:: James Pradier

x Period or Movement:: Neoclassicism

x Date Completed:: 1822

Hermaphroditus Asleep

"Hermaphroditus Asleep" is a marble sculpture of a sleeping Hermaphroditus. It is a Roman copy from the Imperial Era (2nd century CE) after a Greek original. The mattress (Carrara marble) was sculpted in 1619 by Bernini, commissioned by...

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Borghese Vase

The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century BC as a garden ornament for the Roman market; it is now in the Louvre Museum. Standing 1.72 metres tall and with a...

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Antinous Mondragone

The Antinous Mondragone is a unique colossal 0.95 m high marble example of the iconographic type of the deified Antinous, of c. AD 130. It can be identified as him from the striated eyebrows, full lips, sombre expression and the head's twist down...

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Apollo of Mantua

The Apollo of Mantua and its variants are early forms of the Apollo Citharoedus statue type, in which the god holds the cithara in his left arm. The type-piece, the first example discovered, is named for its location at Mantua; the type is...

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Apollo of Piombino

The Apollo of Piombino or the Piombino Boy is a famous Greek bronze statuette in late Archaic style that depicts the god as a kouros or youth. The bronze is inlaid with copper for the boy's lips, eyebrows and nipples. The eyes, which are missing,...

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Ares Borghese

The Ares Borghese is a Roman marble statue of the imperial era (1st-2nd c AD). It is 2.11m high. It is identifiable as Ares by the helmet and by the ankle ring given him by his lover Aphrodite. This statue possibly preserves some features of an...

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Athena of Velletri

The Athena of Velletri or Velletri Pallas is a type of classical marble statue of Athena, wearing a helmet. All statues of this type are 1st century Roman copies of a lost Greek bronze, possibly a bronze of c. 430 BC by Kresilas. The oval face and...

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Borghese Gladiator

The Borghese Gladiator is a Hellenistic lifesize marble sculpture actually portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus about 100 BCE. It is signed on the pedestal by Agasias, son of Dositheus, who is otherwise unknown. It was found before 1611, at...

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x Artist:: Agasias

x Period or Movement:: Hellenistic Art

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Diana of Versailles

The Diana of Versailles is a slightly over lifesize marble statue of the Greek goddess Artemis (latin: Diana), with a deer, located in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. It is a Roman copy (1st or 2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed...

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Furietti Centaurs

The Furietti Centaurs (known as the Old Centaur and Young Centaur, or Older Centaur and Younger Centaur, when being treated separately) are a pair of Hellenistic or Roman grey-black marble sculptures of centaurs based on Hellenistic models. One is...

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Lady of Auxerre

The small (65 cm high) limestone Cretan sculpture called the Lady of Auxerre, (or Kore of Auxerre), at the Louvre Museum in Paris depicts an archaic Greek goddess of c. 650 - 625 BC. It is a Kore ("maiden"), perhaps a votary rather than the maiden...

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Marcellus as Hermes Logios

Marcellus as Hermes Logios, sculpture of Marcellus the Younger as Hermes Logios, the god of eloquence. It was executed in marble (1.80 meters in height) circa 20 BC (ie 2 years after the nominal subject's death, possibly on his uncle Augustus's...

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The Seated Scribe

The sculpture of the Seated Scribe is one of most important examples of ancient Egyptian art. It represents a figure of a seated scribe at work. The sculpture was discovered at Saqqara in 1850 and dated to the period of 4th Dynasty, 2620-2500 BCE....

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Venus and Mars

Hadrian and Sabina as Mars and Venus is a 1.73m tall marble statue of 120-140 AD (with restorations of c.170-175) The male figure originally represented the emperor Hadrian, but its head has later been restored to that of Lucius Verus. Shown in the...

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Venus of Arles

The Venus of Arles is a 1.94m high sculpture of Venus at the Musée du Louvre. It is in Hymettus marble and dates to the end of the first century BC. It may be a copy of the Aphrodite of Thespiae by Praxiteles, ordered by the courtesan Phryne. In the...

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Dying Slave

The Dying Slave is a sculpture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Created between 1513 and 1516, it was to serve with another figure, the Rebellious Slave, at the tomb of Pope Julius II. It is a marble figure 2.28 metres (7' 6") in...

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Borghese Venus

Borghese Venus, 2nd century BC Roman marble copy of the Aphrodite of Cnidus (Capitoline Venus subtype). Once in the Borghese collection, it now resides in the Louvre Museum thanks to its purchase by Napoleon. The accompanying Cupid and dolphin are...

x Art Subject:: Venus

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x Period or Movement:: Hellenistic Art

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Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle

The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris. The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse...

x Art Subject:: Child Jesus,; Blessed Virgin Mary

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x Period or Movement:: Gothic art

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Saint Mary Magdalene

x Art Subject:: Mary Magdalene

x Artist:: Gregor Erhart

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Daniel in the Lions' Den

Daniel in the lions' den is a capital that was created in the 6th century.

x Art Subject:: Daniel

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x Period or Movement:: Romanesque art

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Symbols of the evangelists and Christ giving the keys to Saint Peter

Symbols of the evangelists and Christ giving the keys to Saint Peter is a double capital created in the second quarter of the 12th century.

x Art Subject:: Four Evangelists

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x Date Completed:: 1372

Charles IV, the Fair (d. 1328) and his wife Jeanne d'Evreux (d. 1371), each holding a bag containing their entrails

Charles IV, the Fair (d. 1328) and his wife Jeanne d'Evreux (d. 1371), each holding a bag containing their entrails are sculptures created by Jean de Liege in 1372.