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Classical art thread.

Start with Antonio Cánova - Perseus and the head of the Medusa.
All who gaze upon the Gorgon turn to stone. Don't worry --it seems both seem to be petrified as well.
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Socrates bust
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Paris
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athena
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augustus
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Caligula bust
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mars and venus
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marcus aurelius bust
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la victoire de samothrace
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perseus
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heracles
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michael

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charlemagne

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homer

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forgot...
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Vincenzo de' Rossi - Hercules (Greek Heracles) and Diomedes (making a nut grab), Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
This statue is one of the six monumental marble figure groups depicting The Labours of Hercules. These statues were commissioned from Vincenzo de' Rossi for the Salone dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

In Greek mythology, Hercules (Greek Heracles) was a hero and the personification of physical strength and courage. He is one of the most popular figures in classical and later art. Hercules twelve labours were undertaken as a penance for slaying his old children in a fit of madness. He was ordered by the Delphic oracle to serve Eurystheus, king of Tiryns, for twelve years and to undertake any task he might require. Serving a mortal in a menial role was the punishment for a god who offended the Olympians. Originally simple tales of the victory of the strong, they acquired in time a moral symbolism, the triumph of right over wrong.

The eighth labour of the twelve, represented by this group of Rossi, is "The mares of Diomedes". These wild animals lived on human flesh. Hercules, with a brand of friends, seized them, and in the ensuing battle with their owner, King Diomedes, and his men, the king was slain. http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/rossi/hercules.html
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Pio Fedi, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy.

Neoptolemus holds Polyxena, while Hecuba ask him to release her daughter, her son Polites is dead.
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Berthel Thorvaldsen - Jason portant la Toison d'Or.
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Laoconte?
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This is a sculpture done by the Russian artist Mikhail Vrubel. I'm not sure of the name of it, though... sorry.
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Michelangelo's pieta, my personal favorite in st peters
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Marvelous! Thanks!
I remember hearing that, back in the early 1970s, some lunatic ran up to this statue and tried to hack it up with an ax. Philistines! Afterwards, this masterpiece had a pane of glass in front of it. This is why we can't have nice things.
Pic: Michelangelo's Pietà in the Chapel of the Pieta, St. Peters Basilica.
If anyone has a more HR image of this, suitable for a wallpaper, then please post it.
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Odysseus (or Ulysses) King of Ithaca, the main hero in Homer's Odyssey & also mentioned in the Iliad.
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Dunno who made this classical grope session.
Any ideas?