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The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.

This kind of art goes back to the Minoan period, when its main theme was the representation of motion in a specific moment.

These free-standing statues were usually marble, but also the form rendered in limestone, bronze, ivory and terracotta.