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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...
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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...
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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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- 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...
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- 1793
Wounded Niobid
"Wounded Niobid" (1822) is a sculpture by Swiss-born French artist James Pradier.
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- 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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Daniel in the Lions' Den
Daniel in the lions' den is a capital that was created in the 6th century.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 1372
Bust while orant of Philippe de Commynes and of his wife, Helene de Chambes-Montsoreau
Busts while orant of Philippe de Commynes and of his wife, Helene de Chambes-Montsoreau are prayer stools created by artisans in the 16th century.
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Saint Marc
Saint Marc is a bas relief created by Jean Goujon in the 16th century.
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Funerary monument for the heart of Duke Henri I of Longueville and his son Henri II of Longueville
Funerary monument for the Duke Henri I of Longueville and his son Henri II of Longueville is a funerary monument created by Francois Anguier in 1661.
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- 1661
David Vainqueur de Goliath
David vainqueur de Goliath is a sculpture created by Pierre Francqueville in the early 17th century.
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- 1661
Fame and Mercury
Fame and Mercury is a sculpture created by Antoine Coysevox in 1702.
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- 1702
La Paix de Nimègue
La Paix de Nimègue is a bronze bas relief created by Martin Desjardins in the late 17th century.
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- 1682
Milo of Croton
Milo of Croton is a sculpture created by Pierre Paul Puget in 1682.
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- 1682
La Chasse au lion
La Chasse au lion is a sculpture created by Antoine-Louis Barye in the late 18th, early 19th century.
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- 1835
Lion and Serpent
Lion and Serpent is a bronze sculpture created by Antoine-Louis Barye in 1835.
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- 1835
Saint James the Less
Saint James the Less is a bas relief created by Jean-Jacques Clerion in 1689.
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- 1689
Allegory alluding to the Recovery of the King
Allegory alluding to the Recovery of the King is a bas-relief created by Nicolas Coustou in 1693.
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- 1693
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Jules Hardouin-Mansart is a sculpture created by Jean-Louis Lemoyne in 1703.
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- 1703
Polyphemus Sitting on a Rock
Polyphemus Sitting on a Rock is a sculpture created by Corneille Van Cleve in 1681.
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- 1681
Cleopatra Dying
Cleopatra Dying is a sculpture created by Francois Barois in 1700.
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- 1700
The Death of Dido
The Death of Dido is a sculpture created by Claude-Augustin Cayot in 1711.
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- 1711
Leda and the Swan
Leda and the Swan is a sculpture created by Jean Thierry in 1717.
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- 1717
Neptune Calming the Waves
Neptune Calming the Waves is a sculpture created by Lambert-Sigisbert Adam in 1733.
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- 1733
Mercury Attaching his Wings
Mercury Attaching his Wings is a sculpture created by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle in 1744.
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- 1744
Milo of Croton
Milo of Croton is a sculpture created by Etienne Maurice Falconet in 1754.
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- 1754
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound is a sculpture created by Nicolas-Sebastien Adam in 1762.
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- 1762
A River
A River is a sculpture created by Jean-Jacques Caffieri in 1759.
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- 1759
Dying Gladiator
Dying Gladiator is a sculpture created by Pierre Julien in 1779.
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- 1779
