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Phantastes. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald published in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike ...
Antonio Canova 's statue The Three Graces is a Neoclassical sculpture, in marble, of the mythological three Charites, daughters of Zeus – identified on some engravings of the statue as, from left to right, Euphrosyne, Aglaea and Thalia – who were said to represent youth/beauty (Thalia), mirth (Euphrosyne), and elegance (Aglaea).
Allegorical scene from the Augustan Ara Pacis, 13 BCE, a highpoint of the state Greco-Roman style. The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture. Many examples of even the most famous Greek sculptures, such as the Apollo Belvedere and Barberini Faun, are known only from Roman Imperial or Hellenistic "copies".
Cycladic art therefore comprises one of the three main branches of Aegean art . The best known type of artwork that has survived is the marble figurine, most commonly a single full-length female figure with arms folded across the front. The type is known to archaeologists as a "FAF" for "folded-arm figure (ine)".
Parian marble. Parian marble is a fine-grained, semi translucent, and pure-white marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros in the Aegean Sea. A subtype, referred to as Parian lychnites, was particularly notable in antiquity by ancient Greeks as a material for making sculptures. [ 1] Some of the greatest masterpieces ...
height 174 cm, width at the base 195 cm. David. 1501–1504. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. Marble. height 5.17 meters (17.0 feet) Madonna and Child (Madonna of Bruges) 1501–1504. Church of Our Lady, Bruges.
The Museo Soumaya version. The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (known by the artist as Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle [a] or Le Rêve [b] ) is an 1880 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It was first exhibited at his fourteenth exhibition, hosted by the National Society Salon. [1] One of the marble versions of the work is now in ...
Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer - a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the 6 ...