The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

The biography records that the area was still largely pagan at the time and Benedict's first act was to smash the sculpture of Apollo and destroy the altar.

Komarov's name also appears on a plaque left at Hadley Rille on the Moon by the commander of Apollo 15, David Scott, along with a small sculpture representing the " Fallen Astronaut " on August 1, 1971.

This includes the relief sculpture ( of which fragments now remain at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ) of Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs ( approximate date ).

A famous rendition of the subject is Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture Apollo and Daphne.

On June 22, 2004, the Cleveland Museum of Art ( CMA ), announced the acquisition of an ancient bronze sculpture of Apollo Sauroktonos, believed to be the only near-complete original work by Praxiteles.

His first task there was to describe the statues in the Cortile del Belvedere — the Apollo Belvedere, the Laocoön, the so-called Antinous, and the Belvedere Torso — which represented to him the " utmost perfection of ancient sculpture.

The famous pose with the arm resting on the head was so thoroughly identified with Apollo that it was used for the Hadrianic sculpture of Antinous as Apollo at Leptis Magna.

With the Hellenistic and Roman depictions of a youthful Dionysus typologically not always distinguishable from Apollo, the pose seems to have been inherited by Dionysus, as in in the 2nd century CE Ludovisi Dionysus, a Roman sculpture.

The upper limit of this group may be fixed by the sculpture of the temple of Apollo, Delphi.

* Great Hall ( 50 ft x x 50 ft ) – Over each of the six doors which lead from the Great Hall are limestone figure groups celebrating humanity's progress in art, science, and industry: Galileo, representing science ; Dante, representing literature ; Apollo, representing the arts ; Mercury, representing speed and commerce ; Richard Morris Hunt, representing architecture ; and Karl Bitter, representing sculpture.

The sculpture incorporates two Thomas Edison dynamos from the 1880s, lightning rods, high-voltage components from 1920s power plants, scrap from the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant, and the decontamination chamber from the Apollo 11 spacecraft.

There are no inscriptions on early to middle geometric sculpture, until the appearance of the Mantiklos " Apollo " ( Boston 03. 997 ) of the early 7th century found in Thebes.

The Apollo Belvedere or Apollo of the Belvedere — also called the Pythian Apollo — is a celebrated marble sculpture from Classical Antiquity.

The episode represented may be the slaying of Python, the primordial serpent guarding Delphi — making the sculpture a Pythian Apollo.

The large white marble sculpture — 2. 24 m ( 7. 3 feet ) high — depicts the Greek god Apollo as a standing archer.

When L ' Antico and Dürer saw it, the Apollo was probably still in the personal collection of della Rovere, who, once he was pope as Julius II, transferred the prize in 1511 to the small sculpture court of the Belvedere, the palazzetto or summerhouse that was linked to the Vatican Palace by Bramante's large Cortile del Belvedere.

It became the Apollo of the Cortile del Belvedere and the name has remained with it, though the sculpture has long been indoors, in the Museo Pio-Clementino at the Vatican Museums, Rome.

In 1969 a kind of epitaph was provided by noted art historian Kenneth Clark ( 1903 – 1983 ): "... For four hundred years after it was discovered the Apollo was the most admired piece of sculpture in the world.

Later painters of talent also managed to capture the mood of eusebeia or thoughtful piety of the procession as, for example, on the volute krater of the Kleophon Painter of a sacrifice to Apollo, which shares the quiet dignity of the best of High Classical sculpture.

But it is the wooden sculpture from Bali, the one representing two men with their heads bent backward and their bodies interlaced by a fish, that I particularly call to your attention.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

No muse was identified with the visual arts of painting and sculpture.

The arrangement mirrors the one designed by Bernini for the Tomb of Urban VIII ( 1628 – 47 ), with a central hieratic sculpture of the pope seated in full regalia and offering a hand of blessing, while at his feet, two allegorical female figures flank his sarcophagus.

Whatever was likely to forward his advancement in sculpture he studied with ardour.

They clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

A statue in the Galleria Borghese depicts Cerberus with three heads sitting by the side of Hades, while a bronze sculpture depicting Heracles ' twelfth labour shows the demi-god leading a two-headed Cerberus from the underworld.

Charles also played with clay, creating a sculpture of North Carolina.

These works also show the influence that African sculpture had on his portraiture, showing, with Portrait of a Boy showing more cubist features.

Erotica ( from the Greek ἔρως, eros " desire ") are works of art, including literature, photography, film, sculpture and painting, that deal substantively with erotically stimulating or sexually arousing descriptions.

After studying the sculpture of Rodin, Munch may have experimented with plasticine as an aid to design, but he produced little sculpture.

Ettore Ximenes with a sculpture model of opera singer Enrico Caruso.

The sculpture dates to the 12th century and is of a figure carrying a vase-shaped bombard, with flames and a cannonball coming out of it.

A student of Classical sculpture, Bernini possessed the unique ability to capture, in marble, the essence of a narrative moment with a dramatic naturalistic realism which was almost shocking.

Planted with perennials, ground cover, shrubs, and flowering trees, the landscape design provides a distinctive setting for important works of 20th and 21st century sculpture, primarily American.

The more sober western or " upper " end of the Kurfürstendamm is marked by the Berlin-Halensee railway station on the Ringbahn line and the junction with the Bundesautobahn 100 ( Stadtring ) at the Rathenauplatz roundabout, featuring the long disputed 1987 " Beton Cadillacs " sculpture by Wolf Vostell.

The stone remains as a memorial even though his body was later disinterred and reburied in Hanover, Germany, the grave being marked with a marble copy of his 1929 sculpture Die Herbstzeitlose.

Spurling claimed that to get revenge, Marmaduke Wetherell committed the hoax, with the help of Chris Spurling ( a sculpture specialist ), his son Ian Marmaduke, who bought the material for the fake, and Maurice Chambers ( an insurance agent ), who asked surgeon Robert Kenneth Wilson to offer the pictures to the Daily Mail.

These show the complete sculpture ( with conjectural reconstructions of the missing pieces ) and can be seen in Rhodes, at the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, Rome, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and in front of the Archaeological Museum, Odessa, Ukraine, amongst others.

Related to abstract expressionism was the emergence of combining manufactured items with artist materials, moving away from previous conventions of painting and sculpture.

These performances were intended as works of a new art form combining sculpture, dance, and music or sound, often with audience participation.

They produced very little sculpture in the round, except for colossal guardian figures, often the human-headed lamassu, which are sculpted in high relief on two sides of a rectangular block, with the heads effectively in the round ( and also five legs, so that both views seem complete ).