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Ralaghan figure. The Ralaghan idol, also known as the "Ralaghan figure", is a late Bronze Age anthropomorphic, carved wooden figure found in a bog in the townland of Ralaghan, County Cavan, Ireland. It is held by the National Museum of Ireland. [1] A sample of wood from the figure yielded a radiocarbon date (OxA–1719) of 1096–906 cal. BCE ...
Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 is a 1963 artwork by Henry Moore. A bronze edition (1/7) is part of the collection of the Palm Springs Art Museum. [1] [2] See also
Herma of Demosthenes from the Athenian Agora, work by Polyeuktos, c. 280 BC, Glyptothek. A herma (Ancient Greek: ἑρμῆς, plural ἑρμαῖ hermai), [1] commonly herm in English, is a sculpture with a head and perhaps a torso above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height.
The earliest evidence of anthropomorphic wooden cult figures in areas that would later have Germanic-speaking inhabitants is from the Bronze Age.The Broddenbjerg idol, an ithyphallic forked-stick figure found in a peat bog near Viborg, Denmark, is carbon-dated to approximately 535–520 BCE. [2]
Reclining Figure 1939 (LH 210) [1] is an elmwood sculpture by Henry Moore. It is an abstracted reclining human figure, with looped head, shoulders, and sinuous body ...
Jean de La Fontaine is equally reticent about the god's identity in his L'homme et son idole de bois ('The man and his wooden idol', Fables IV.8). [ 28 ] It has been surmised that one explanation for the scepticism of these last two fables was that Hermes was the god of trade and merchants and the Greeks had a certain ambivalence towards wealth ...
[1] [2] One of the earliest published descriptions of the puzzle appeared in 1826 in the 'Sequel to the Endless Amusement'. [3] Many other references of the cross puzzle can be found in amusement, puzzle and magicians books throughout the 19th century. [4] The T puzzle is based on the cross puzzle, but without head and has therefore only four ...
UNESCO Reclining Figure 1957–58 is a sculpture by Henry Moore. It was made in a series of scales, from a small plaster maquette , through a half-size working model made in plaster and cast in bronze (LH 415), to a full-size version carved in Roman travertine marble in 1957–1958 (LH 416). [ 1 ]