genre: mythological sculpture

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instance of: sculpture (159) | statue (39) | statuette (18) | Medallion (6) | archaeological artifact (4) | altar (3) | sculptural group (3) | mask (2) | fountain (2) | anonymous work (2) | figurine (2) | artwork copy (2) | milestone (1) | door knocker (1) | sarcophagus (1) | spoon (1) | throne (1) | plaster cast (1)

commissioned by: Louis XIV of France (1) | John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1) | Joséphine de Beauharnais (1) | Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1) | Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona (1) | Nicolas Fouquet (1) | Scipione Borghese (1) | John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor (1)

owned by: France (1) | United Kingdom (1) | Eugène Delacroix (1) | Paul IV (1) | Henry II of France (1) | Eugène de Beauharnais (1) | Bernard Lange (1) | Henriette de Verninac (1)

movement: Roman sculpture (68) | Hellenistic sculpture (8) | neoclassicism (4) | Renaissance sculpture (4) | Roman art (4) | academic art (3) | Baroque (1) | rococo (1) | classicism (1) | ancient Greek sculpture (1) | None (1) | Neoclassical sculpture (1) | New Sculpture (1) | Neoclassicalism (1) | Greek late classical period (1)

named after: Aphrodite (1)

based on: Venus Pudica (8) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Venus of Urbino (2) | Scottish mythology (1) | Crouching Venus (1) | Capuan Venus (1) | Latona and the Lycian peasants (1) | Rape of Europa (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Fame Riding Pegasus (1) | Mercury Riding Pegasus (1) | Venus lying (1)

artist: anonymous (94) | Antonio Canova (10) | Antoine Coysevox (4) | François Joseph Bosio (3) | Alexandre Falguière (3) | Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (3) | Dhione Barboza (2) | Pierre Paul Puget (2) | Lorenzo Bartolini (2) | Guillaume Coustou the Elder (2) | James Pradier (2) | Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain (2) | Claude Michel (2) | Louis-Auguste Lévêque (2) | Auguste Rodin (1) | Carl Milles (1) | Praxiteles (1) | Aristide Maillol (1)

depicts: nudity (46) | woman (44) | umbilicus (31) | drapery (29) | Venus (26) | breast (23) | Aphrodite (21) | chignon (21) | long hair (18) | glabrousness (16) | mons pubis (15) | Diana (14) | barefoot (14) | head (13) | toe (13) | standing (13) | man (12) | back (12)

material used: marble (124) | bronze (43) | marbre de Saint-Béat (14) | plaster (9) | terracotta (6) | Carrara marble (5) | Parian marble (5) | limestone (3) | onyx (3) | marbre de Göktepe (3) | ivory (2) | cast iron (2) | gold (1) | stone (1) | granite (1) | alabaster (1) | paint (1) | None (1)

collection: Musée Saint-Raymond (87) | Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (23) | National Museum in Warsaw (17) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (11) | Santa Barbara Museum of Art (8) | Acropolis Museum (5) | Borghese Collection (5) | Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon (5) | Musée des Augustins (5) | British Museum (3) | Lady Lever Art Gallery (3) | Musée d'Orsay (2) | Hermitage Museum (2) | Victoria and Albert Museum (2) | Tate (2) | Musée Carnavalet (2) | Edward Barry (2) | Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (1)

location: Musée Saint-Raymond, first floor (40) | Saint-Raymond Museum reserves (26) | Santa Barbara Museum of Art (8) | Room 105 (8) | 2nd floor of Musée Saint-Raymond (7) | cour Marly (5) | Acropolis of Athens (4) | National Museum in Warsaw (4) | museum's storage space (4) | Tuileries Garden (3) | Escalier Darcy (3) | British Museum (2) | Louvre Museum (2) | Tate Britain (2) | Victoria and Albert Museum (2) | Capitoline Museums (2) | Galleria Borghese (2) | Louvre Palace (2)

part of: Masks Ra 36-Ra 37 (7) | Twelve Labours, Villa Chiragan (3) | The Three Graces (2) | Chatsworth Apollo (2) | Daphne chased by Apollo (2) | Sculpted Andirons (1) | Memorial to Christopher Marlowe (1)

country of origin: France (2)

exhibition history: Marbres cachés, sculptures oubliées (12) | Greek and Roman Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (7) | Une odyssée musicale (3) | Palladia Tolosa (2) | Art grec de la terre à l'image (2) | Age of classics ! L'Antiquité dans la culture pop (2) | Salon of 1808 (1) | Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon (1) | Salon of 1863 (1) | Salon of 1824 (1) | Salon of 1817 (1) | Velázquez (1) | Les arts du métal (1) | Dieux du ciel ! L'irruption de l'espace (1) | Caesar and the Rhône river: masterpieces of antique Arles (1) | The Moon: From real travel to imaginary journeys (1)

main subject: hunting (2) | Rape of Persephone (2) | Aphrodite (1) | Pauline Bonaparte (1) | Leda and the Swan (1) | Rape of Europa (1) | Pygmalion and Galatea (1) | Toilet of Venus (1)

location of final assembly: Rome (2) | Italy (1) | Roman Empire (1) | Magna Graecia (1)

fabrication method: haut-relief technique (14) | bas-relief (4) | relief sculpture (2) | lost-wax casting (1) | molding (1) | sculpture in the round (1)

time period: ancient Rome (20) | Early Roman Empire (2) | Gallo-Roman culture (1)

Capitoline Venus

statue
(3rd century)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity contrapposto umbilicus breast

Déesse-mère 25552

statuette
by anonymous
mother goddess child breastfeeding

Statuette d'Athéna Ra 113

statuette / sculpture
by anonymous (3rd century)
Athena Aegis Gorgon Medusa

Ariadne or Menad

sculpture
by anonymous (3rd century)
Ariadne Maenad head

Świst and Poświst by Sławomir Celiński (National Museum in Warsaw)

sculpture
by Sławomir Celiński (1910)
Poświst (demon) Slavic deity wind

Venus de' Medici

statue
by Cleomenes (-50s)
Venus nudity Aphrodite woman umbilicus

Diana of Gabii

statue
(20s)
Diana Artemis woman long hair headband chignon drapery chiton himation sandal trunk fibula belt

Cybèle Ra 34 i

sculpture / Medallion
by anonymous (4th century)
Cybele portrait at bust length veil

Amour et Psyché (25532)

statuette
by anonymous
Eros Psyche kiss

Relief of Three Dancing Nymphs

sculpture
(2nd century)
nymph

Isis Ra 38 (1)

sculpture
by anonymous (4th century)
Isis

Athéna Ra 362

sculpture
by anonymous
Athena head

Harpocrate Ra 40

sculpture
by anonymous (4th century)
Harpocrates child cornucopia

Vénus à l'enfant (25533)

archaeological artifact / statuette
by anonymous
Venus child

Vénus

statue
by Aristide Maillol (1928)
nudity woman Venus Aphrodite glabrousness umbilicus contrapposto buttocks overweight breast part Gluteal sulcus intergluteal cleft barefoot mons pubis

Attis Ra 34 l

sculpture / Medallion
by anonymous (4th century)
Attis phrygian cap

[no title]

sculpture
(2nd century)
Aphrodite

Sleeping satyr

statue
by Edmé Bouchardon (1726s)
faun sitting sleep rock None grape domestic sheep

Masque bachique Ra 36 e

sculpture
by anonymous (3rd century)
Pan head mask

[no title]

sculpture
(2nd century)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity

Venus of Martres

sculpture
by anonymous (1st century)
Venus head chignon

Hermes siedzący na baranie

statue
by anonymous (221)
Hermes

Sphinx (Acropolis Museum n. 632)

sculpture
Sphinx

Hygie (Ra 42)

sculpture
by anonymous
Hygieia snake

IIlusion, sœur d'Icare

sculpture
by Auguste Rodin (1896)
Icarus woman

[no title]

sculpture
by Pio Fedi (1855s)
Polyxena Neoptolemus Hecuba Polydorus

Daphne (chased by Apollo)

sculpture
by Guillaume Coustou the Elder (1713s)
Daphne tree hairstyle running nudity Ovid trunk

Statuette de Mercure (25566)

sculpture
by anonymous
Mercury patera Caduceus cornucopia

Ivory handle ornated with a centaur playing the lyra

sculpture / archaeological artifact / spoon
by anonymous (2nd century)
centaur Lyra Chiron

Chatsworth Apollo

sculpture / hypothetical artwork
by anonymous (-460s)

Venus with a Diadem

sculpture
by anonymous (1st millennium)
Venus diadem mons pubis woman

Diane (?) Ra 34 h

sculpture / Medallion
(4th century)
goddess diadem

Diana fountain

sculpture / fountain
by Carl Milles (1928)
Diana Artemis woman

Hyacinth wounded

statue
by François Joseph Bosio (1817)
Hyacinth major trauma lying throwing weapon nudity boy agony

Faune ou dieu Pan Ra 45

sculpture
Pan faun

Venus lying

statue
by Lorenzo Bartolini (1820s)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity half reclining bed bed sheet mattress cushion long hair Angela del Moro bracelet umbilicus breast nipple areola ponytail drapery glabrousness armpit barefoot sole toe part masturbation malleolus mons pubis

The Bacchante

statue
by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1863)
Bacchant smile belt laurel wreath grape stemware hairstyle sculpture Bacchus beard Hedera None drapery steatomery back Huequitos para Andrea barefoot toe long hair hipshot eye contact armpit breast waist hip umbilicus glabrousness mons pubis crown

The Three Graces

sculptural group
by Antonio Canova (1810s)
Charites woman standing hug nudity

Minerve de Martres

sculpture
by anonymous (3rd century)
Minerva peplos

Artemis holding a doe

statue
by anonymous (-1th century)
Artemis Diana woman standing drapery doe long hair peplos

Niobé Ra 367

sculpture
by anonymous (19th century)
Niobe head

Andromache

sculpture
by François Milhomme (1800)
Andromache hairstyle sadness sitting Astyanax Hector lying cadaver Hecuba long hair chignon headband woman veil

[no title]

sculpture / mask
by anonymous (3rd century)
mask

Andromeda

sculpture
by Clovis Delacour (1901s)
Andromeda woman nudity rock wave wind wave contrapposto prisoner sea monster shore Ceto chain handcuffs long hair dragon breast armpit nipple umbilicus waist hip steatomery glabrousness barefoot toe tooth horn foam back buttocks headgear pigtail mons pubis

Diana with Jumping Antilope

statue
(1916)
woman nudity Diana bow antelope chignon glabrousness hunter Artemis