The statues of Apollo embody beauty, balance and inspire awe before the beauty of the world.

The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos.

Such statues were found across the Greek speaking world, the preponderance of these were found at the sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia alone.

Also during Summer of 2009 archaeologists discovered in Actium the ruins of the Temple of Apollo ( in Greek Ναός του Ακτίου Απόλλωνος ) and found two statues ' heads, one of Apollo, one of Artemis ( Diana ).

Poppies also frequently adorned statues of Apollo, Asklepios, Pluto, Demeter, Aphrodite, Kybele and Isis, symbolizing nocturnal oblivion.

* about Apollo Sauroktonos statues in marble and bronze

The richly furnished spring sanctuary of Hochscheid ( Cueppers 1990 ; Weisgerber 1975 ) was decorated with statues of Sirona and Apollo, again confirmed by an inscription

In the four niches were placed classical mythological statues of a Muse, Mercury, Apollo and Venus.

" Montfaucon describes the tomb of the poet Sannazaro in the church of the Olivetans, Naples, as ornamented with the statues of Apollo and Minerva, and with groups of satyrs.

The island is famous for the statue of Aphrodite ( the " Venus de Milo ", now in the Louvre ), and also for statues of the Greek god Asclepius ( now in the British Museum ) and the Poseidon and an archaic Apollo in Athens.

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.

* Sala delle Muse: Houses the statue group of Apollo and the nine muses as well as statues by important ancient Greek sculptors.

The statues, as one faces the stage are: on the right, starting near the stage: Faun with Infant Bacchus ( Naples ); Apollo Citharoedus ( Rome ); Girl of Herculaneum ( Dresden ); Dancing Faun ( Rome ); Demosthenes ( Rome ); Seated Anacreon ( Copenhagen ); Euripedes ( Rome ); Diana of Versailles ( Paris ); on the left, starting near the stage: Resting Satyr of Praxiteles ( Rome ); Amazon ( Berlin ); Hermes Logios ( Paris ); Lemnian Athena ( Dresden, with head in Bologna ); Sophocles ( Rome ); Standing Anacreon ( Copenhagen ); Aeschines ( Naples ); Apollo Belvedere ( Rome ).

Such statues are found across the Greek-speaking world, the preponderance of these were found in sanctuaries of Apollo with more than one hundred from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios, Boeotia, alone.

A number of his works were destroyed during the French Revolution ; the most famous of those that remain are " La Seine at la Marne ", the " Berger Chasseur ", and " Daphne Pursued by Apollo " in the gardens of the Tuileries, the bas-relief " Le Passage du Rhin " in the Louvre, the statues of Julius Caesar and Louis XV in the Louvre, and the " Descent from the Cross " behind the choir altar of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.

In the temenos were statues, some by famous masters, of Apollo and Dionysus and famed poets.

The facade is decorated with statues of Mars, Minerva, Apollo, Diana, Hercules, Perseus, and the coat of arms of the Bánffy family with gryphons, without crown.

Other types of water organ were played out of sight and were used to simulate musical instruments apparently being played by statues in mythological scenes such as ' Orpheus playing the viol ', ' The contest between Apollo and Marsyas ' and ' Apollo and the nine Muses '.

He was then shown to the newly refurbished Theatre of Pompey, which Nero had had specially decorated for the occasion with lavish amounts of gold gilding on the columns and statues ; a purple awning embroidered with the image of the Emperor dressed as Apollo driving a chariot among the stars covered the theater's cavea seating.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

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

In his own words, " his statues were the sole proofs of his civil existence.

Many aediculae were household shrines that held small altars or statues of the Lares and Penates.

The Epidaurians had been accustomed to make annual offerings to the Athenian deities Athena and Erechtheus in payment for the Athenian olive-wood of which the statues were made.

The Mass was re-established, altars, roods and statues were re-instated ; an attempt was made to restore the Church to its Roman affiliation.

In several cities where CCC workers worked, statues were erected to commemorate their presence.

In his own palace, statues and portraits of his former companion emperor were torn down and destroyed.

The Senate nonetheless rejoiced at the death of Domitian, and immediately following Nerva's accession as Emperor, passed damnatio memoriae on his memory: his coins and statues were melted, his arches were torn down and his name was erased from all public records.

" During this time, the martyrs of the Revolution were taken from the Pantheon and buried in common ground, and revolutionary statues were destroyed.

A viral marketing campaign ran prior to the release of Shadow of the Colossus, stating the Colossi were actual real statues found by explorers and tourists.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

At his funeral, there were no procession statues of Germanicus.

Though followers of Zwingli and Calvin were more severe in their rejection, Lutherans tended to be moderate: many of their parishes displayed statues and crucifixes.

Relief statues in St Stevenskerk in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, were attacked and defaced in the Beeldenstorm.

At the sanctuary were bases of statues, which by Pausanias ’ time had been deprived of the statues themselves, as well as a hippodrome, where the athletic games had once been held.

Wooden statues of the spirits were erected on top of this sacrificial castle.

Monks were taken to Male and beheaded, The Satihirutalu ( the chattravali or chattrayashti crowning a stupa ) were broken to disfigure the numerous stupasm and the statues of Vairocana, the transcendent Buddha of the middle world region, were destroyed ; and the destruction was not limited to sculptures.

Paintings such as The Baptism of Vajk ( 1875 ) by Gyula Benczúr and many statues representing the king all over Hungary testify to Stephen's importance in Hungarian national thought.

The statues of biblical kings of Judah ( erroneously thought to be kings of France ), located on a ledge on the facade of the cathedral were beheaded.

Flinders Petrie excavated two large statues of Min at Qift which are now in the Ashmolean Museum and it is thought by some that they are pre-dynastic.

Previous excavators had thought that Amenhotep III had the temple built because of the hundreds of statues found there of Sekhmet that bore his name.

The statues included early examples of painted figures, and are thought to have been buried due to Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty repression of Buddhism ( he favored Taoism ).

It was K. Lawrence Perera, the pioneer of the Borelassa Passion play who brought innovative changes in 1924 by using living actors instead of statues as “ he thought that the Passion shows done in Church premises with statues were “ crude ” and unworthy of so lofty a theme as the passion of Christ .” ( The Folk Drama of Ceylon, p. 126 ).

Barques were important religious artifacts and since the deities were thought to travel in this fashion in the sky — the Milky Way was seen as a great waterway that was as important as the Nile on Earth — cult statues of the deities traveled by boats on water and ritual boats were carried about by the priests during festival ceremonies.

Now one of these ambassadors from the people of Alexandria was Apion, ( 29 ) who uttered many blasphemies against the Jews ; and, among other things that he said, he charged them with neglecting the honors that belonged to Caesar ; for that while all who were subject to the Roman empire built altars and temples to Gaius, and in other regards universally received him as they received the gods, these Jews alone thought it a dishonorable thing for them to erect statues in honor of him, as well as to swear by his name.

The Ekeko is depicted as a man with a mustache wearing traditional Andean clothes ( especially the poncho ) and completely loaded with bags and baskets with grain and food, ( compare with the cornucopia of some Greco-Roman deities ), household objects, and currency bills, and basically anything that a person is thought to want or need to have a comfortable and prosperous life ; he is commonly found as a little statue to be put in some place of the house, preferably a comfortable one, but also as an amulet attached to key rings ; modern statues of the god include a circular opening in his mouth in which to place a cigarette for Ekeko's pleasure.

The most attractive quarters of the city are commonly thought to be Pjaca, identifiable as the main city centre between statues of Mother Teresa and Luigj Gurakuqi, and Gjuhadol, the neighborhood around one of the most scenic streets connecting the Cathedral on the east side of town with the middle of the city.

Modern day attractions include the East London Museum housing the coelacanth, a prehistoric fish, thought to be extinct, discovered live at Chalumna Mouth near East London by fishermen in 1938, and numerous memorial statues.

It is thought the two statues functioned as standards.

Monkey statues are also thought to guard against oni, since the Japanese word for monkey, saru, is a homophone for the word for " leaving ".

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The statues included early examples of painted figures, and are thought to have been buried due to Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty repression of Buddhism ( he favoured Taoism ).

A multiplicity of statues, ranging from Hellenistic gods, to various Gandharan lay devotees, are combined with what are thought as some of the early representations of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas.

Two copper statues of Pepi I and his son Merenre were found at Hierakonpolis ; they are thought to depict the two royals symbolically " trampling underfoot the Nine bows ," a stylized representation of Egypt's conquered foreign subjects.

It is also possible that the temple was originally dedicated to both Hera and Zeus ; some offertory statues found around the larger altar are thought to demonstrate this identification.

It is even thought that the building's clock tower and statues were designed to mimic the temple's spires and statue of the angel Moroni.

There are several of these statues scattered around the various temples, and are thought to represent fertility.

Reisner's interpretation was based on the presence of inscribed Egyptian statues in the large burials, which he thought belonged to those named individuals.

Six quartzite statues originally placed along the axis of the hypostyle hall in the Amun Temple at Karnak are thought to be his, although these were defaced and overwritten with the name of Seti II.

It is commonly thought that the earliest incarnation of Greek sculpture was in the form of wooden cult statues, first described by Pausanias as xoana.