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)

Jove with eagle

sculpture
by anonymous (4th century)
Jupiter eagle

Chatsworth Head

sculpture
by anonymous (460s)
Apollo

Milo of Croton

sculpture
by Pierre Paul Puget (1671)
Milo of Croton lion oak bite nudity tree

Vertumne

sculpture
by François Barois (1706)
man drapery grape autumn Vertumnus veil

Hercule au repos Ra 48

sculpture
Heracles

Pijany Bachus z satyrami

sculpture
by Claude Michel (18th century)
satyr Dionysus drunken person Vitis vinifera polfex Pan flute

L'Enlèvement de Perséphone Ra 152

sculpture
by anonymous (1st century)
Rape of Persephone Proserpina Hades Mercury Pluto Minerva chariot snake quadriga kidnapping Cupid

Vénus

statue
(1st millennium)
woman standing toplessness drapery breast nipple modesty umbilicus chignon back ribbon Venus Aphrodite

Herakles

sculpture
(3rd century)
Heracles

Hercules and Lychas

sculpture
by Antonio Canova (1795)

Autel votif dédié aux Nymphes Augustes (2000.41.16)

sculpture / altar
by anonymous (2nd century)

Mercury Riding Pegasus

sculpture / artwork copy
by Antoine Coysevox
Mercury Pegasus

Faune à la grappe

sculpture
by Alexandre Falguière (1855)
faun grape man

Dionysos 2000.106.1

sculpture
by anonymous
Dionysus teenager

Apollo z lirą

sculpture
by Isaia da Pisa (1460)
Apollo lyre

Base de statue d'Hercule Ra 325

sculpture / altar
(2nd century)
vase Hedera club lion

Hermes and Charites relief

sculpture
Hermes Charites

Sappho sleeping

sculpture
by Marguerite Syamour (1897)
Sappho lyre sleep nudity

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

sculpture
by Antonio Canova (1793)
Psyche Eros kiss bird's wing handbra À poils et à plumes drapery quiver arrow Cupid woman man umbilicus sole barefoot toe hug

Esculape Ra 34 m

Medallion / sculpture
by anonymous (4th century)
Esculape portrait at bust length snake

Herkules siedzący na byku

sculpture
by Antoine-Louis Barye (1830s)
Hercules bull boy flute

Sphinx (Acropolis Museum n. 630)

sculpture
(-5th century)
Sphinx

Crouching Venus

statue
by Antoine Coysevox (1686)
Venus Aphrodite woman nudity squatting position headband long hair turtle drapery armband toe bijou hairstyle

Aphrodite of Rhodes

sculpture
(1st century)
Aphrodite

Head of Athena

sculpture
by anonymous (5th century)
Athena head helmet owl

Groupe sculpté tronc d'arbre, serpent et égide Ra 157

sculpture

Hylas Surprised by the Naiades

sculpture
by John Gibson (1827s)
Hylas boy naiad woman nudity fig leaf drapery eye contact chignon long hair surprise hug amphora sandal barefoot clothing in the ancient world breast nipple umbilicus glabrousness back Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft Gluteal sulcus trunk part hip standing Racolage headband malleolus

The kidnapping of Europa

sculpture / monument
by Fernando Botero (1992)
Zeus Europa kidnapping bull

Aphrodite Untying Her Sandal

sculpture
Aphrodite nudity bracelet apple

statue of Eros, type Centocelle

sculpture
by anonymous (3rd century)
Eros

Hebe

statue
by Franz Machtl (1893)
Hebe woman toplessness breast stemware cup with stem pitcher panneggio bagnato clothing in the ancient world belt contrapposto long hair diadem five-pointed star part barefoot toe malleolus

[no title]

sculpture / milestone
by anonymous
Bacchus Silenus head

Head of Prosperine

sculpture
by Dhione Barboza (1620s)
Proserpina

Head of a satyre

sculpture
by anonymous (3rd century)
satyr head

Masque bachique Ra 36 b

sculpture
by anonymous (3rd century)
Silenus mask

Bacchant Playing with a Faun

sculpture
by Louis-Auguste Lévêque (19th century)
faun crown Hedera Bacchant sitting cymbal trunk