Description
Greek sculpture art: 1) West Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Greece, 490 BC (today Glyptothek Munich); 2) Eirene (Peace) bearing Plutus (Wealth), Roman copy after a Greek votive statue by Kephisodotos (ca. 370 BC) which stood on the agora in Athens (today Glyptothek Munich); 3) Juno Ludovisi, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy; 4) Zeus of Otricoli, Roman copy (marble bust) after a Greek original from the 4th century; 5) Kaufmann head, Attic school (Musée du Louvre, Paris, France); 6) Gálata Ludovisi - Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy); 7) Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch, between 130 and 100 BC (Musée du Louvre, Paris, France); 8) Parthenon Frieze, between c. 443 and 437 BC (British Museum, London, United Kingdom); 9) Niobe and her Youngest Daughter, between cia. 400 and ca. 300 BC (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy); 10) Farnese Bull, Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture (Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, Naples, Italy); 11) Discus Thrower (Diskobolus), Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze sculpture by Myron, c. 450 BC (National Roman Museum, Rome); 12) Laocoön Group, Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze sculpture, between 27 BC and 68 AD (Vatican Museums). Wood engravings, published in 1897.