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arrow-of-orion · 22 hours
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Apollo and Diana, an 1848 marble statue by American artist and sculptor Thomas Crawford.
This captures their essence quite well imo!
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risunsky · 3 months
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Imagine that somewhere in the ministry there is a large statue in honour of the very first Sister of Sin.
Inspired by a photograph of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's statue of Constantine, taken by Saiko (wikipedia).
I didn't keep the statue because my aim was to practise by completely creating a part of the work, but the photograph was very useful for everything else, the architecture and especially the light! Without Saiko's beautiful photo, this illustration wouldn't exist.
It was an interesting exercise!
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solcattus · 6 months
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Nymph, late 19th century
By A. Batacchi
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Thomas Brock (1847-1922) "Eve" (1900) Marble
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die-rosastrasse · 1 year
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Carl Schlüter, Fraulein Bierling (1883)
Displayed at Albertinum, Dresden
Picture credits belong to this blog
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billelis · 1 year
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Medusa
Transformation through Punishment 
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psykopaths · 3 months
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Eros and Bonnie by Cicero D'Ávila
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happyheidi · 2 years
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Villa Borghese, Rome. Italy. x
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neapolis-neapolis · 11 months
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Statua fontana di Priapo, (fine I sec. a.C. - inizio I sec.), dalla Casa dei Vettii - Parco archeologico di Pompei, Napoli.
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pxsieszn · 4 months
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White Aesthetic
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sictransitgloriamvndi · 6 months
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theantonian · 2 months
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Roman marble statue of Dionysus (Bacchus), God of wine, patron of wine making.
Roman copy of a Greek original of late 4th century BC.
from The Collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg
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blueiskewl · 4 months
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Turkish Archaeologists Unearth Sculpted Heads of Ancient Greek Deities
The excavations in Kutahya province’s ancient city of Aizanoi, which is the site of many ancient Greek and Roman-era settlements, discover the statue heads of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
Turkish archaeologists have discovered more sculpted heads of ancient Greek deities during excavations in Türkiye's western Kutahya province.
The statue head of Aphrodite, known as the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology, and the statue head of Dionysus, the deity of wine, were discovered during excavation work in an ancient city in central Türkiye.
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Modern Türkiye is the site of many ancient Greek and Roman-era settlements.
With a history dating back 5,000 years, Aizanoi, situated 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the Kutahya city centre, was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2012.
Archaeological excavations are currently underway in Aizanoi, which is located in the Cavdarhisar district of Kutahya province and is home to Anatolia's best-preserved Temple of Zeus.
Archaeology professor and excavation team leader Gokhan Coskun told Anadolu Agency that numerous statue pieces were discovered during the excavation.
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"The most exciting development for us this season is uncovering new heads of the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, and the deity of wine Dionysus," Coskun said.
"In the excavation works we have conducted in the region so far, we have unearthed more than 100 statue pieces. Some of the heads found are from statues that are 2-3 meters long," he noted.
"These statue heads, which we first discovered three years ago, are in very well-preserved condition. During our excavations, so far we have discovered two Aphrodite and three Dionysus statue heads," Coskun said.
The excavation season, which began in the ancient city last April, will be completed by the end of this month, Coskun added.
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empirearchives · 4 months
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“What Napoleon criticised in the statue could perhaps be summed up in one thing: his uneasiness at the sight of his own nudity. And it was precisely his nudity that was felt to be problematic, even shocking. But how did Canova come to have the odd idea of representing Napoleon as a nude divinity?”
— Valérie Huet, Napoleon I: A New Augustus?
The nude statue of Napoleon in question:
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Harold Parker (1873-1962) "Ariadne" (1908) Marble Located in the Tate Britain, London, England
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