Greek art and sculptures has had a profound effect for art throughout the ages. Here are six ancient greek sculptures everyone should know.
The art of sculpture has been around for centuries, their statues made not only for a particular occasion, but also to… by allaboutarts
The ideas of the famous and great philosophers in Greek history still influence us and shape our lives today. Some of their quotes are also familiar to you.
The statue of Laocoön and His Sons (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), also called the Laocoön Group, is a monumental sculpture in marble displayed in the Vatican Museums, Rome. The statue is attributed by the Roman author Pliny the Elder to three sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons
As the word “hipster” is rendered more and more amorphous and diluted in meaning (perhaps currently used merely to signify some one who is young and wears clothes), it’s become increasingly difficult to take potshots at the people who might make us feel schlubby and out-of-touch. Luckily, folks are still doing creative things with the concept. Photographer Léo Caillard created a series called “Hipster in Stone,” wherein he “styles” famous sculptures in the fashions of today’s younger clothes-wearers. As a broke young person from Brooklyn with a creative job, I feel it is my anthropological duty to place the themes and characters of Caillard’s work. First off, pictured above is the hungover guy who ruins brunch. Seriously. You save up go to brunch once a damn month and he’s always there, using incredibly deliberate body language, expounding loudly on how wasted he got last night, sitting in his chair in such a way as to obstruct the servers as they attempt to do their jobs. Shut up, hungover guy, just drink your 10$ pitcher of mimosas like everyone else. This is my old boss from when I worked at a third party political...
The famous Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen harbor.
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PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks. The Caryatids on the south porch of the Erechtheion (420 BC), Athens, Greece It was built in 420 BC in the Ionic style. The famous porch of the Caryatids has statues that have been replaced with marble casts. The Erechtheion owes its name to Erechtheus who was a local hero and legendary king of Athens. The main temple was divided into two sections, dedicated to the worship of two main gods of Attica, Athena and Poseidon. A relief frieze bearing a representation possibly of the birth of Erechtheus, decorated the exterior of the building. It is one of the most highly decorative and original creations in all of Greece. Constructed in order to replace the ancient temple of Athena, it was started during the Peace of Nikias in 420 BC, but work was interrupted when hostilities started between Athens and Sparta. It was finally completed in 400 BC, the unusual construction of the Erechtheion reflects the many shrines located here which were preserved over the centuries.
Jean Goujon Venus and Cupid 1540s marble relief Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Christophe Veyrier Bust portrait of Admiral Jean Gabaret 1660s marble Louvre "Those who are well born ordinarily have good inclinations, which others only rarely have, and it seems that they come naturally to those of good birth, whereas it is only by accident that they are found in others." – Nicolas Faret, 1634, quoted in Becoming a French Aristocrat by Mark Motley, Princeton University Press, 1990 Nicolas Cordier Zingarella 1607-12 colored marbles, bronze Galleria Borghese, Rome Jean-Louis Lemoyne Bust portrait of Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1703 marble Louvre "At school the lessons the nobility receive are of no use for their education, and overburden their memories to no purpose for the rest of their lives." – Nicolas Le Gras, 17th century, quoted in Becoming a French Aristocrat by Mark Motley, Princeton University Press, 1990 Pierre Puget Perseus and Andromeda 1678-84 marble Louvre Étienne Maurice Falconet L'amour menaçant (originally owned by Madame de Pompadour) 1757 marble Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam "Here's a man [Étienne Maurice Falconet] who has genius and all kinds of character traits compatible and incompatible with genius, though these last are also to be found in Francois de Verulam and Pierre Corneille. This is because he has finesse, taste, intelligence, delicacy, kindness, and grace in full measure; because he's awkward and polite, friendly and brusque, kind and harsh; because he works in clay and marble, and reads and reflects; because he's a philosophe, believing in nothing and knowing perfectly well why not. Because he's a good father whose son fled his household; because he was madly in love with his mistress yet made her die of anguish, because this made him sad, somber, melancholy, because he almost perished from sorrow, and because, though she died some time ago, he still hasn't recovered from the loss of her. Add that no man is more desirous of the praise of his contemporaries and more indifferent to that of posterity. He carries this view to an unbelievable extreme, and has told me a hundred times he wouldn't give a penny to guarantee the eternity of his most beautiful statue." - Denis Diderot, from the Salon of 1765, translated by John Goodman, Yale University Press, 1995 Antoine Coysevox Bust portrait of Marie Serre 1706 marble Louvre Clodion Pan pursuing Syrinx ca. 1770 marble relief Louvre Clodion Vase carved in high relief 1770s marble Wallace Collection, London Augustin Pajou Psyche Abandoned 1790 marble Louvre Augustin Pajou Bust portrait of Mme du Barry 1773 marble Louvre "Above his door Pajou has had inscribed, as his device, the maxim of Petit-Jean: "Without money, without money, honor is but a sickness." I admire nothing he showed this year. I examined the long row of his busts searching for something I might praise, but in vain. Such is the result of running after lucre. ... He's only done one good thing since his return from Rome. He's a talent crushed beneath a sack of gold; may he stay there." – Denis Diderot, from the Salon of 1767, translated by John Goodman, Yale University Press, 1995 Antoine Denis Chaudet Cupid presenting a Rose to a Butterfly 1802 marble Louvre François Joseph Bosio Aristaeus, God of the Gardens 1817 marble Louvre Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Ugolino and his Sons marble 1865-67 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "In a revealing biography recounting Philippe de Strozzi's childhood in mid-sixteenth-century France we learn that his father "in order to give his son assurance, and increase his courage, on occasion drew his sword and held it an inch from his face or stomach, asking him if he wasn't afraid." When he asked his father for a collar rather than a horse, a sword, or something else of a soldier, his father replied, "since he preferred a chain, he would be sent to the galleys ... and placed in chains there." Moreover, his father tested his courage at night, provoking him with the observation that "you won't be so brave and assured" alone at night. And so he came at night to frighten the boy, "knocking on his door, and disguising his voice in a horrible manner," until his son struck him on the forehead with a well-aimed key. At this point he left the boy in peace, "swearing to never again frighten him in this way at night." – Mark Motley, from Becoming a French Aristocrat, Princeton University Press, 1990
April 8th 1820: The Venus de Milo discovered On this day in 1820 the famous Ancient Greek sculpture the Venus de Milo (created between 130 and 100 BC) was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos by...
French art director Alexis Persani along with French photographer Leo Caillard has created a series of in vogue sculptures, where using phot...
Though Paige Bradley has a few "trademark" sculptures, the Internet came and fell in love with one particular one that's causing people from all over the
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