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  2. Belvedere Torso - Wikipedia

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    The Belvedere Torso is a 1.59-metre-tall (5.2 ft) fragmentary marble statue of a male nude, known to be in Rome from the 1430s, and signed prominently on the front of the base by "Apollonios, son of Nestor, Athenian", who is unmentioned in ancient literature. It is now in the Museo Pio-Clementino (Inv. 1192) of the Vatican Museums.

  3. Venus de Milo - Wikipedia

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    The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos[ b] is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC. It was rediscovered in 1820 on the island of Milos, Greece, and has been displayed at the Louvre ...

  4. Winged Victory of Samothrace - Wikipedia

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    The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, [2] is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké ...

  5. Ancient Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek sculpture. Riders from the Parthenon Frieze, around 440 BC. The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholarship identifies three major stages in monumental sculpture in bronze and ...

  6. Archaic Greek Sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Archaic Greek Sculpture represents the first stages of the formation of a sculptural tradition that became one of the most significant in the entire history of Western Art. The Archaic period of Ancient Greece is poorly delimited, and there is great controversy among scholars on the subject. It is generally considered to begin between 700 and ...

  7. Farnese Hercules - Wikipedia

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    The Farnese Hercules ( Italian: Ercole Farnese) is an ancient statue of Hercules, probably an enlarged copy made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; he was an Athenian [ 1][ 2] but he may have worked in Rome. Like many other Ancient Roman sculptures it is a copy or version of a much older Greek original ...

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