Classic Art - Sculpture

WeightHacker

The weeping angels these pics says it all

maab_connor

The weeping angels these pics says it all

oh Moffat...

Ed98043

I can't decide if this is a serious thread of if it's just being used as an adolescent ploy to post pictures of genitals. Some of each, I think.

One of the most memorable sculptures I saw when from visiting Rome was the Dying Gaul:

KinzieElise

for marble, you can't beat Winged Victory (IMHO)

This one has been my favorite ever since I saw it in The Louvre.

Penny_Lane_

I can't decide if this is a serious thread of if it's just being used as an adolescent ploy to post pictures of genitals. Some of each, I think.

The penis shows up in Greek art a lot--big ones as well as small ones. For example, there's the temple of Dionysus on the island of Delos, which features giant stone penises carved in the third century BC. Decapitated now, they're still impressively scaled and in a state of salute. (The academic term describing this condition, incidentally, is ithyphallic.)

A common boundary marker and household totem in ancient Greece was the herm, originally a representation of the god Hermes. It consisted of a head on top of a simple squarish pillar--your basic supersized Pez dispenser--unadorned except for, in front, an amply proportioned, usually erect, and sometimes arrestingly protrusive penis and *kitten*. Scholars tell us that such decorations were apotropaic (you learn a lot of vocabulary in this field)--that is, intended to ward off evil, and that folks back then paid no more attention to them than we would to a lucky horseshoe. Maybe. All I'm saying is, stuff that even now we'd consider hard-core porn you saw then just walking down to the Piraeus.

Some of the major masterpieces in history have been posted here....

Timshel_

Small scale immensity! Panayotis Panayis.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

for marble, you can't beat Winged Victory (IMHO)

This one has been my favorite ever since I saw it in The Louvre.

It's a favorite of mine as well, although I've never been fortunate enough to visit the Louvre.

OnionMomma

I don't know alot about sculptures but what I do know is that I can spend hours at our local art museum looking at it!

This is my favorite there because it reminds me of little mischievous boys! Like the little one that lives at our house!

http://collection.chrysler.org/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/1/title-asc?t:state:flow=8ccf6992-982f-4689-8bf6-68f377302733

I also like this one on display there:

http://collection.chrysler.org/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/0/title-asc?t:state:flow=16b20c68-eb5a-433c-be83-0f37a5c1db03

nightengale7

NM.