#greek sculptor

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (1/11/23) Silanion (Greek, 4th c. BCE) Bust of Plato (c. 348 BCE) Roman copy after the Greek original, 35 cm. high Glyptothek, Munich

Plato (c. 428-347 BCE) was a philosopher in Classical Greece. Silanion was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BCE. His floruit is given by Pliny (Naturalis Historia, 34.51) as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328-325 BCE; the tradition recorded by Pliny was that Silanion had no famous teacher. Of two of his known works, however, his idealized portrait head of Plato was commissioned by Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, c. 370 BCE, Of it and of an idealized portrait head of Sappho, later copies survive, if the number of surviving copies can be correlated to the fame of the commissions. Both are of simple ideal type, the Sappho not strictly a portrait, since Sappho (sixth century BCE) lived before the age of portraiture.

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Renown holding back Pegasus

By Eugène Louis Lequesne

Photo by Louis-Emile Durandelle

1875

[love4hobi]

so beautiful

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[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

Vintage Greek imagery.

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The Vatican Discobolus, 2nd century A.D., after a lost bronze of the discus thrower by the Greek sculptor Myron (circa 460-420 B.C.). The sculpture was discovered at Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, in 1791.

Pio Clementino Museum, Vatican, Rome.

[artcorneratthetopofthestairs]

Gian Lorenzo Bernini; ''Apollo e Dafne'', 1622-25.

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Have you ever heard about the story of Pygmalion? It’s a greek myth about a sculptor who fell in love with a sculpture he made. It sounds crazy right? What if I told you that most of us have been a Pygmalion at least once in our lives. We fell in love with some images we create of people in our heads. Images that sometimes are never true.

I remember the first time we talked. I remember how I felt; The butterflies in my stomach when I talked to you, the goofy smiles upon thinking of you. This is it, you are the one; I remember it all. But what I remember the most is my mind telling me: If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t. But I think I was too (Pygmalioned) to see. I made you everything I loved about you and I fell desperately in love with this idea I made up in my mind of you. I don’t have to get over you, I have to get over myself, I have to get over how I thought of you

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk (French, 1820-1885) Jeune Tarentine (Young Tarentine), 1871 Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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We were in Oxford that Sunday, long slow walks, plenty of rest stops

A's face golden in the sun, the amber silver ring we picked out snug on my finger

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-Photo by Pavel Nekoranec on Unsplash

[psykopaths]

Theseus vanquishing the Centaur, Antonio Canova (1805)

[lususnatura]

alright, but one of blamore's hobbies is sculpture-making and so he HAS made numerous smaller ones over the years, but the one he's making right now is this statue of artemis (whom is the greek goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, and wild animals which is EXACTLY why it chose to make a sculpture representing her) is something it aims to be a little bit shorter than himself — so i guess you could say it is sort of a big project?¿ yeah LMAO and if blamore isn't gardening, then it'll usually be working on it.

now, so far, he's only got the bust done all the way to the shoulders as of now + it's mixed media so it's made mostly of wood, BUT it's also got some other elements like wire and some random things that you might not normally think of mixing into a sculpture in it. though man's doesn't just show anyone his progress on it because he usually wants thing's to be 'done' before he does... and that is to say that, if it does happen to show this sculpture to you, then you are officially one of its friends (':

[greekmythcomix]

#ClassicsTober23 27: ⚒️Pygmalion❤️

Pygmalion, the Cyprian sculptor who carved such a beautiful statue of Aphrodite that he fell in love with it and the goddess gave it life: it became Galatea (‘milky-white’, presumably because of the marble from which it was carved).

I love this scene of artisans and sculptors making things from bronze, which is on the outside of the Thetis and Hephaestus kylix - the ‘Foundry cup’ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Foundry_Cup

This sculptor seems to be making a statue of an athlete, with the statue leaning on a support while he’s about to put the head on. But Pygmalion carved from marble so I’ve put the head on my statue.

I’ve nicked the statue from Praxiteles, it having been the most successful Aphrodite statue!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite_of_Knidos

[ginacookie]

"He wanted to be on top and he won’t get down from there until they both finish😤"

[monogreek]

Figure (conceived in 1959) by Philolaos (Tloupas) (1923-2010)