Two Friends by Gerhard Marcks
Sculpture Saturday *15
The Weight of Oneself by Elmgreen & Dragset
Sculpture Saturday *12
Shepard, Jason with the Golden Fleece, Adonis, Cupid and Psyche, Cupid Triumphant and Ganymede Offering the Cup by Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sculpture Saturday *10
Bronze tripod with young ithyphallic Satyrs as legs from the 1st century CE. Found June 15, 1755 in the sacrarium of the complex of Julia Felix in Pompeii. Shown in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Sculpture Saturday *8
According to the Web Gallery of Art, the statue Hercules and Diomedes is one of six statues that the sculptor Vincenzo de Rossi made for the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.
Tufts University’s Perseus Project, meanwhile, explains the backstory (without mentioning the handsiness). Greek mythology has it that Eurystheus, the king of Tiryns and Mycenae, tasked Hercules with twelve “Labors” as penance for killing his wife and children in a temporary bout of insanity. As one of the Labors, Eurystheus sent him to retrieve the man-eating mares of Diomedes, king of the Bistones tribe. And legend has it that Hercules killed Diomedes by feeding him to his own horses.
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