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Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs , and small statuettes and figurines , as well as bronze elements to be fitted to other objects such as furniture.
Bronze statues were regarded as the highest form of sculpture in Ancient Greek art, though survivals are few, as bronze was a valuable material in short supply in the Late Antique and medieval periods. Many of the most famous Greek bronze sculptures are known through Roman copies in marble, which were more likely to survive.
Bronze Statuette of Athletic Spartan Girl; Brunswick Lion; Buddha Maitreya (sculpture) The Burghers of Calais; Bust of Abd al-Rahman III, Cadrete; Bust of Auguste Rodin (Bourdelle) Bust of Auguste Rodin (Claudel) Bust of Martin Luther King Jr. (Alston)
The Artemision Bronze (often called the God from the Sea) is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea, Greece. According to most scholars, the bronze represents Zeus , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the thunder-god and king of gods, though it has also been suggested it might represent Poseidon .
The Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer, Seated Boxer, Defeated Boxer, or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a bronze sculpture, a Hellenistic Greek original, [1] of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his himantes (Ancient Greek: ἱμάντες, romanized: himántes, plural of ἱμάς, himás, 'a leathern strap or thong' [2]), a type of leather hand-wrap.
Statue A, possibly Tydeus.Height (without base): 1.98 m (6 ft 6 inches) [3] There is still debate on who found the statues. One theory states that Stefano Mariottini, then a chemist from Rome, [4] chanced upon the bronzes while snorkeling near the end of a vacation at Monasterace.
[14] [9] Made of bronze, the eyes are inset with glass pupils and calcite irises. It is the preservation of the eyes (which are frequently lost in ancient bronze statues) which makes this statue so startlingly realistic. The emperor's head turns to his right and gazes powerfully into the distance.
The Antikythera Ephebe, registered as Bronze statue of a youth in the museum collections, [1] is a Greek bronze statue of a young man of languorous grace that was found in 1900 by sponge-divers in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, Greece.