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Myron of Eleutherae: 480-440 BC, an Athenian sculptor .
From a fountain in Athens, one of a lost group of statues
portraying Theseus and the Minotaur. National Archeological
Museum of Athens
http://www.namuseum.gr/object-month/2012/nov/nov12en.html#
See Kritios Boy, text p 112 and Kouros, p 95
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In 420 - 410 BC the Athenian sculptor Callimachus created a bronze sculpture of Aphrodite (now
lost), which, according to Pliny’s Natural History, showed her dressed in a light but clinging chiton
or peplos, which was lowered on the left shoulder to reveal her left breast and hung down in a sheer
face and decoratively carved so as not to hide the outlines of the woman's body. Venus was depicted
holding the apple won in the Judgment of Paris in her left hand, whilst her right hand moved to cover
her head. From the lost bronze original are derived all surviving copies. The composition was
frontal, the body's form monumental, and in the surviving Roman replicas its proportions are close to
the Polyclitean canon.
Louvre Museum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Genetrix_(sculpture)
The Apollo is thought to be a Roman copy of Hadrianic date (ca. 120-140) of a lost
bronze original made between 350 and 325 BC by the Greek sculptor Leochares.
The episode represented may be the slaying of Python the serpent guarding
Delphi—making the sculpture a Pythian Apollo. Alternatively, it may be the
slaying of the giant Tytios who threatened his mother Leto, or the episode of
the Nyobids.
“Thermae boxer”: athlete resting after a boxing match. Bronze, Greek
artwork of the Hellenistic era, 3rd-2nd centuries BC (the boulder is
modern and replicates the ancient one).
From the Thermae of Constantine
National Museum of Rome