Classical Greek and Roman Sculptures

Statues capturing the beauty of the human form from ancient cultures, including representations of deities and notable figures, showcasing classical artistry.

Battling Warrior, called Borghese Gladiator 1st C. B.C. Roman Art Musee du Louvre, Paris

Diadumenos by sculptor Polyclitus. Ancient Greek sculpture. 420 BC. Classical era. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece. (Photo by: PHAS/UIG)

JOVEN ATLETA GRIEGO. Location: MUSEO DEL LOUVRE-ESCULTURAS. France.

TORSO DE ADRIANO - ARTE ROMANO - SIGLO II. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN. ADRIANO. PUBLIO ELIO ADRIANO.

FIGURA DE BACO. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. Malaga. SPAIN.

Doryphoros of Polykleitos. Greek statue, Classical era. C. 440 BC. Roman copy. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

Lazio Viterbo Bagnaia Villa Lante22. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Discophorus, Roman, 2nd century AD, after a Greek original attributed to the sculptor Naukydes of 390-380 B.C.

Battling Warrior, called Borghese Gladiator 1st C. B.C. Roman Art Musee du Louvre, Paris

Greek Art. Classical Era. Doryphoros. 450-400 BC. Designed by sculptor Polykleitos. Roman marble copy of Herculaneum. Naples National Archaeological Museum. Italy.

Mars.Van Bossuit carved a large number of ivories for his most important patron, Petronella de la Court, wife of an Amsterdam merchant. His impressive figure of Mars formed the centrepiece in her cabinet of art, together with an ivory Venus that has not survived. The slightly curving form of Mars follows the arc of the elephant tusk from which Bossuit carved this figure.

Anonymous / 'Mercury, variant on ''Hermes Andros-Farnese'''. 150 - 200. Marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Marble statue of a bearded Hercules A.D. 68-98 Roman Restorations made during the early 17th century: both legs, the plinth, the support at the left leg, pieces in the lions skin. The arms were also restored but have been removed.This statue and the over-life-sized statue of Hercules across the courtyard in all probability were made as a pair to decorate one of the great spaces in a large public bath. Although they are much restored, their stance and attributes are essentially correct and are variants on long-established statue types that probably originated in images of the Greek hero Herakles dating to the fourth century B.C. They were part of the large collection of ancient sculpture assembled in Rome at the beginning of the seventeenth century by a wealthy Genoese banker, the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #1271. Marble statue of a bearded Hercules Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcri

APOLINO - NEOCLASICISMO ESPAÑOL. Author: ALVAREZ CUBERO JOSE. Location: MUSEO REINA SOFIA-ESCULTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

. God is on the left leg and with the right bent on a protruding soil, for a flat background undergrowth. The upperlift is slightly left to the left, the bearded head in the opposite direction. He holds the right hand at shoulder height, the left down; In both he has a bundle of lightning bolts. A cloth hangs from the right arm, which covers the shame. Under the curved knee is the eagle with spread wings; Behind the God is a Ram to the right.

Piraeus Apollo. Ancient Greek bronze sculpture in the archaic style. Dated ca. 530-520 BC. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Greece.

Figures, Sculptures and other Historical Exhibits, Old Museum on Pleasure Garden, Berlin, Germany 1020926339

Marble sculpture known as the Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch. Alexandros of Antioch a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age

Roman copy of Greek statue. Male torso.

Seated Bacchus, early 16th century, In the style of Antico, Italian, 10 1/2 in. (26.67 cm), Bronze, Italy, 16th century

Statue of a kouros, Parian marble, found in Anavyssos, Attica. It had been stolen and taken to France from where it was returned in 1937. The body is powerful and articulate, with emphasized musculature. The statue was funerary and stood on the grave of Kroisos, as is indicated by the epigram on the base: 'Stop and mourn at the grave of dead Kroisos, whom the raging Ares destroyed when he fought among the defenders', about 530 B.C.

Dioscorus, by Unknown artist, 2nd Century, marble, full relief. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum. Whole artwork. Statue young naked man mythical hero Dioscorus

TRAJANO PROCEDENTE DE ITALICA (ROMANO SIGLO II). Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

Minotaur. Roman copy of a Greek original of around 5th C BC attributed to Myron. 1s c. AD. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy.

Satyr. Roman copy of a Greek original by the sculptor Praxiteles of about 360 BC

DAVID 1501-1504 - RENACIMIENTO ITALIANO. Author: Michelangelo. Location: GALERIA DE LA ACADEMIA. Florenz. ITALIA. DAVID REY SIGLO XI AC.

Marble statue of gladiator, known as ""Borghese warrior"", signed by Agasias, son of Dositheos, Ephesian, 100 b.c., from Anzio (Rome province)

ARTE S. XVIII. ITALIA. CANOVA, Antonio (Possagno, 1757-Venecia, 1822). Escultor italiano. PERSEO. Obra del año 1801. Canova es considerado el artista más representativo del neoclasicismo escultórico. Museo Vaticano.

Marble statue group of Hercules and Nemean lion. Now missing the upper body of the nymph Nymea who held an oak wreath for the victor.

Sculpture inside Benrath Palace (Schloss Benrath), Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 18th century.

Marble sculptural group known as Galatian suicide or Ludovisi Gaul killing himself and his wife, Copy from Greek bronze original.

Adam. Artist: Tullio Lombardo (Italian, ca. 1455-1532). Culture: Italian, Venice. Dimensions: Overall: 6 ft. 3 1/2 in., 770 lb. (191.8 cm, 349.2697kg). Date: ca. 1490-95.Tullio Lombardo was a member of a family of sculptors that included his father, Pietro, and brother Antonio. Through training and practice in Venice he developed a thorough understanding of classical art and created some of the first great sculptural statements of the High Renaissance. In a career spanning the years 1475 to 1532, he was known for large-scale narrative reliefs at the basilica of San Antonio in Padua, such as The Miracle of the Newborn Child (1500 - 1504), and sensuous double portraits, such as Young Couple (ca. 1500 - 1510, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), but his major contributions were monumental wall tombs. Of these, the most famous is the tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin, and its most forward-looking sculpture, the Museum's Adam, is the first lifesize nude marble statue of the Renaissance.Grandios

Michelangelo's David, Florence Italy.

'Dionysus'. Roman copy from a Greek original. Ancient Rome, 2nd century. Dimensions: h. 163 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Italy Florence Accademia Statue of David by Michelangelo

Statuette of Jupiter. Unknown

Marble statue of a youthful Hercules. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H. 97 3/16 in. (246.9 cm). Date: A.D. 69-96.Restorations made during the early 17th century: head and neck, right arm below the shoulder, left arm and shoulder, right leg below the knee, left leg, tree trunk, club, plinth.This statue was part of the collection of antiquities acquired in Rome by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century. It must have been made as one of a pair with the over-life-sized statue of a bearded Hercules displayed across the courtyard. Both may have been excavated in the remains of public baths originally constructed under the emperor Nero in A.D. 62, which were located in the vicinity of the Pantheon. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

David 1504 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564 Italian) Marble Galleria dell 'Accademia, Florence, Italy

Marble statue of Venus Callipyge by Francois Barois (1656-1726) a French sculptor. Dated 17th century

The Rape of the Sabine Women', c1583 Artist: Giambologna. Found in the collection of the Galleria dell' Accademia, Florence, Italy.

Marble statue of a youthful Hercules A.D. 69-96 Roman Restorations made during the early 17th century: head and neck, right arm below the shoulder, left arm and shoulder, right leg below the knee, left leg, tree trunk, club, plinth.This statue was part of the collection of antiquities acquired in Rome by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century. It must have been made as one of a pair with the over-life-sized statue of a bearded Hercules displayed across the courtyard. Both may have been excavated in the remains of public baths originally constructed under the emperor Nero in A.D. 62, which were located in the vicinity of the Pantheon. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #1283. Marble statue of a youthful Hercules Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies We're sorry, the transcript for this audio track is not available at this time. We are working to make it available as soon as possible.. Marble statue of a you

Marble statue of Farnese Hercules, Roman copy made by Glykon of original bronze one made by Lysippos in the 4th century BC

Dancing Faun; Giovanni Battista Foggini, Italian, 1652 - 1725; Florence, Italy, Europe; about 1700; Bronze; Object: H: 54 cm (H: 21 1/4 in.)

Colossal statues of Dioscuri. Pentelic marble. From Baia, 2nd century AD. One of the twins Castor and Pollux. National Arhaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

DIscobolus (Discus Thrower). Roman copy (2nd c AD) of an ancient Greek. Sculptor Myron, 5th c. BC. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy. Author: Miron.

Idolino, bronze statue of athlete, copy from Greek original of 5th century B.C.

Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus A.D. 251-253 Roman This bronze monumental statue is one of the very few nearly complete Roman bronze statues of the third century preserved today. It is a reminder that many of the disembodied portrait heads displayed in these galleries were once attached to freestanding sculptures, whose original appearances were undoubtedly quite different. Portraits of the emperor served the highly important function in imperial propaganda of presenting the ruler to the public and of projecting the personality with which he wished to be perceived. Leadership and military strength are evoked in the heroic nudity of the figure and in the pose, which recalls the famous statue of Alexander the Great with the Lance by Lysippos. In contrast to the idealized body, the portrait head represents the emperor with brutish realism. Trebonianus likely would have cradled a parazonium, or short sword, in his left arm, and held a spear in his upraised right hand. The s

Herkules und Lichas - Ercole e Lica, vom Bildhauer Antonio Canova, 1815 - Gips Possagno, Italy - 22 June 2023. Hercules and Lichas - Ercole e Lica, by sculptor Antonio Canova, 1815 - plaster Copyright: xZoonar.com/PaoloxGallox 23085889

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD). Roman Emperor from 161 to 180. Antonine Dynasty. Statue. Second half of 2nd century AD. Marble. The torso is a 18th century Italian imitation of a Greek athlete model like a type of 5th century B.C. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Fisher Boy 1841-44; carved 1857 Hiram Powers American Powers modeled Fisher Boy in Florence, Italy, where he earned an international reputation for his idealized subjects. In calling this figure a kind of Appollino,” he referred to ancient Greek depictions of Apollo as the epitome of male youth. However, rather than present his only male nude in a mythological guise, the longtime expatriate sculptor insisted on cloaking it in a modern genre subject—a young fisherman’s use of a conch shell to listen for warnings of inclement weather. Half-buried shells carved on the base suggest an ocean setting.. Fisher Boy 11791

Italy, Sicily, Agrigento, La Valle dei Templi, Valley of the Temples, Regional Archeological Museum, Ephebus of Agrigento Statue (5th century BC)

Venus, Roman, 2nd century AD. Nude Venus of the Capitoline type. Found at Campo lemini in 1794 in excavations conducted by Robert Fagan.

Marble statue of Minotaur

DIscobolus (Discus Thrower). Roman copy (2nd c AD) of an ancient Greek. Sculptor Myron, 5th c. BC. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy. Author: Miron.

Bronze figurine of an archer, which could possibly be Hercules.

Phryne by Edmund Lawrence von Weber; marble 1902. Phryne was a famous hetaira (courtesan) of Ancient Greece (4th century BC). she was prosecuted for impiety. When it seemed as if the verdict would be unfavourable, she removed her robe and bared her breasts before the judges to arouse their pity.

White marble sculpture of Hercules and Cacus by Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli. Situated in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. Circa 1533. Show's demi-god Hercules in a moment of pause after defeating Cacus.

Hellenistic art. Lacoon and his Sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpents. Head of the older son, Antiphantes. Vatican Museums. Vatican City.

Copy of Michelangelo's David statue in Piazza della Signoria in Florence. Italy. Europe.

MILAN, ITALY - June 2020: the ancient sculpture Apollo Crowning Himself - 1782 - Antonio Canovas masterpiece. Intesa Italian Museum

Rape of Sabine Women statue, Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Statue created 1583 by Giambologna.

'Cupid with a Bow'. France, 1808. Dimensions: 107 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Zeus, Late Hellenic period. Classical Greek statue GREECE.

Statuette depicting the divine hero Heracles with the club in his right hand and the skin of the Nemean lion in the left arm. Bronze. Italic type. From the center of the Iberian Peninsula. Episcopal Museum of Vic. Catalonia. Spain.

Athlete giving himself a massage with a strigil. 4th c. BC. Classical Greek art. Relief on marble. GREECE. ATTICA. Athens. Piraeus. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

Marble statue of a wounded Amazon 1st-2nd century A.D. Roman Lower legs and feet have been restored with casts taken from copies in Berlin and Copenhagen. Most of right arm, lower part of pillar, and plinth are eighteenth-century marble restorations.In Greek art, the Amazons, a mythical race of warrior women from Asia Minor, were often depicted battling such heroes as Herakles, Achilles, and Theseus. This statue represents a refugee from battle who has lost her weapons and bleeds from a wound under her right breast. Her chiton is unfastened at one shoulder and belted at the waist with a makeshift bit of bridle from her horse. Despite her plight, her face shows no sign of pain or fatigue. She leans lightly on a pillar at her left and rests her right arm gracefully on her head in a gesture often used to denote sleep or death. Such emotional restraint was characteristic of classical art of the second half of the fifth century B.C. The original statue probably stood in the precinct of the

JOSE ALVAREZ CUBERO. ESCULTOR ESPAÑOL . PRIEGO 1768 - 1827. NEOCLASICISMO ESPAÑOL. " LA DEFENSA DE ZARAGOZA " , AÑO 1825.

Manolo Hugue. Ofrenda, 1924. Museo Thermalia. Calders de Montbui.

'Torso of a Youth'. Roman copy from a Greek original. Ancient Rome, 1st century. Dimensions: h. 108 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Statue of Faun. 2nd century A.D. Copy of a Greek original of the late 2nd-1st century BC. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

Statue of a seated man. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H. 15 in. (38.1 cm.)width 12 1/2 (31.8 cm.)depth 10 3/4 (27.3 cm). Date: 1st-2nd century A.D..Fragmentary figure of seated nude male with drapery over right leg from group. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Getty Villa, Malibu, California

Musée National d'Athènes, 15161 Zeus d'Artemision , Sculpture, Antiquities, Gods, Zeus Greek deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Discophorus, Roman, 2nd century AD, after a Greek original attributed to the sculptor Naukydes of 390-380 B.C.

View of detail detail of Laocoon group historical sculpture in marble marble sculpture by ancient sculptor Laocoon group of priest Laocoon and sons fights fight with snake, Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Statue of the Aphrodite of Knidos 101 CE-200 CE Roman Empire. This statue was inspired by the most famous Greek sculpture of a goddess, the Aphrodite of Knidos. Carved by the sculptor Praxiteles in the 4th century B.C. from fine marble, it enjoyed great renown as the first devotional statue of a female goddess in the nude. It produced an immediate sensation when it was installed in a sacred precinct on the island of Knidos, and, centuries later, it inspired Roman artists to re-create the celebrated image of the goddess. Although the earlier Greek sculpture no longer exists, Roman statues such as this inform us of its likely appearance. However, the function of these later Roman versions was fundamentally different from that of the earlier Greek work what had once been an object of veneration among the Greeks became a favorite garden ornament for wealthy Romans. Adapted for such a use, the badly marred surface of the statue is the result of prolonged exposure to the elements.. Marble .

Marble sculpture of Laocoon and children, Roman copy of Hellenistic original

Pio Clementino Museum of Roman Art, statue of Laocoön, Vatican museum, Rome, Italy.

Statue of Amor and Psyche by the sculptor Antonio Canova, 1800. Sensual hug, love and romance feeling. Statue of Amor and Psyche by the sculptor Antonio Canova, 1800. Sensual hug, love and romance feeling.

Firenze - Loggia dell'Orcagna - Ercole abbatte il Centaura (Giambologna) - Florence - la Loge de l'Orcagna - Hercule atterre le Centaure (Giambologna) - Florence - Orcagna's Lodge - Hercules knock down the centaur (Giambologna) - Florenz - Orcagna Loge - Herkules niederwerset den Zentaur (Giambologna) , Sculpture, Supernatural beings, Nessus Greek mythology, Heracles Greek mythological character. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Figurine: Heracles from Maczug; Naples, Sommer, Giorgio (1834-1914); k. 19th century (1890-00-00-1900-00-00);

Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus. Marble sculpture. Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus also known as the Pasquino Group. Ancient Roman marble sculpture. Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. Copyright: xZoonar.com/YuryxDmitrienkox 15417216

Marble statue of Diana by Anselme Flamen (1647-1717) French Baroque Era Sculptor. Dated 17th century.

Greek civilization. The Discus Thrower of Myron . Roman copy known as the Lancellotti Discus Thrower

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Child carrying a book, says the genius of instruction". Patinated plaster, between 1880 and 1886. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Back, child, book, nudite, patter patina, wear, naked

Man Cub. Artist: Alexander Stirling Calder (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1870-1945 Brooklyn, New York). Dimensions: 45 x 15 x 14 in. (114.3 x 38.1 x 35.6 cm). Date: 1901-2, cast 1922.Calder modeled this lifesize portrait of his son, Alexander (1898-1976) when he was four years of age. Sandy Calder posed in his father's studio, holding an orange in his right hand. He later became one of the most influential American sculptors of the twentieth century, best known for his invention of the mobile and the stabile. This cast has a distinctive blue-green patina, applied to the surface of the bronze to give it a weathered appearance. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Life-size statue of sea-nymphs from the Nereid Monument, part of the tomb from Xanthos

Eros with the Helmet of Mars. 3rd century AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dionysus, from the East Pediment of the Parthenon. He reclines on a rock. His seat is softened by a mantle and an animal fur. He glances to the left, towards the rising sun of Helios. Attributed to the sculptor Phidias between 438 BCE-432 BCE

Sarcophagus cover with a young. Etruscan art. Terra-cotta. ITALY. LAZIO. ROME. Cerveteri. National Etruscan Museum of Archaeology.

Strangford Apollo , Antiquities, Sculpture, Gods, Apollo Deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

TORRIGIANO, Pietro (1472-1528). Saint Jerome. 1525. Renaissance art. Sculpture on wood. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Sevilla. Fine Arts Museum.

Oscillum depicting Heracles and the Ceryneian hind (Third Labour of Heracles). Late 1st century BC. From Pompeii. Marble. National Archeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Olympia, West pediment of Temple of Zeus depicting Apollo attending battle between Lapiths and Centaurs

Brühl, Falkenlust Palace/ Lower Vestibule

Marble statue of Apollo in the 'Kassel Apollo' style.

Original Bronze statue from House of Faun in Pompeii, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

Copy of Michelangelos (1475-1564) statue of David in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. Male Nude

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). King of Macedon. Alexander Rondanini. Copy of an original by Euphranor. 338 BC. Glyptothek Museum. Munich. Germany.

Italy. Rome. Fountain of Neptune, 1574, designed by Giacomo della Porta (1532-1602). Detail of Neptune struggling with an octopus, by Antonio della Bitta (1807-), 1878. Navona Square.

Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, also known as the Hermes of Praxiteles or the Hermes of Olympia, dates to the fourth century BC. This ancient Greek sculpture of Hermes and the infant Dionysus was discovered in 1877 in the ruins of the Temple of Hera, Olympia, in Greece. It is displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Herm (plural: Hermes), in Greek religion,refers to a sacred object of stone connected with the cult of Hermes, the fertility god. These were usually surmounted by the bearded head of Hermes (hence the name) or other figure.

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