The 1000++ Artworks of media Marble and containing the word hermann wilhelm bissen, marble, girls, 1850

This sculpture was commissioned from Lorenzo Bartolini by Rosa Trivulzio Poldi Pezzoli, the mother of Gian Giacomo. When she was widowed in 1833, Rosa asked Bartolini a domestic and consoling statue which would express her abandonment to faith following her loss. Bartolini embodied these sentiments ...

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Gibson was among the first neo-classical sculptors to paint his sculptures. During the 19th century it became widely known that this had been the practice in ancient Greece. Gibson/

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King Aleos of Tegea in Arkadia received a warning from the oracle of Apollo in Delphi that his daughter would bear offspring who would bring disaster to Aleos’ own sons. To forestall misfortune, Aleos made his daughter a priestess of Athena. But Herakles came to Tegea, met Auge, and had a son with h...

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A young woman dressed in a belted peplos is running towards the right while she looks back. The strange proportions of the running girl’s legs, long straight thighs, and short shins, shows that she was placed in a high position, and the flatness of the figure, all movement going from side to side, s...

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In the port of Ephesus in eastern Greece, the goddess Artemis was worshipped. Her temple was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The cult statue of the Ephesian Artemis is quite different from most statues of gods, which are generally realsistic. It looks like a plank, and it is hung all around w...

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This relief, known since the Renaissance and considerably reworked, depicts the myth of Medea and the daughters of Pelias. Medea, of divine descent and the daughter of the king of distant Colchis, beyond the Black Sea, helped the Argonauts to win the Golden Fleece with her magical powers and fell in...

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The Heraion on the island of Samos was one of the most renowned sanctuaries of the goddess Hera in ancient Greece. It was the site of cult rituals as early as the second millennium BC, and peaked in importance during the Archaic period – particularly the sixth century BC. Because of its long and cel...

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This high relief is framed by elaborate architecture: a profile socle supports two thin Corinthian columns, which in turn support an entablature with architrave and dentils above. Above these is an attic decorated by two rosettes and a wreath in the middle, crowned by a pediment with dentils and acr...

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