genre: heroic nudity

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instance of: statue (15) | sculpture (4) | aesthetic canon (1) | painting (1)

commissioned by: Augustus (1)

owned by: United Kingdom (1) | disputed (1)

movement: Hellenistic sculpture (5) | neoclassicism (3) | classical Greek sculpture (2) | Neoclassical architecture (1)

based on: Battle of Thermopylae (1) | Doryphoros (1) | Hermes Ludovisi (1)

artist: Antonio Canova (5) | anonymous (3) | Bertel Thorvaldsen (1) | Jacques-Louis David (1) | Lysippos (1) | Polykleitos the Elder (1) | Epigonus of Pergamum (1) | Cleomenes (1) | Étienne-Jules Ramey (1) | Agasias, son of Menophilus (1)

part of the series: Pergamene Gauls (2)

depicts: man (14) | nudity (14) | umbilicus (9) | contrapposto (8) | pubic hair (7) | drapery (4) | athletics competitor (4) | spear (3) | glabrousness (3) | Huequitos para Andrea (3) | Napoleon (2) | Hermes (2) | Achilles (2) | buttocks (2) | military personnel (2) | trunk (2) | ephebos (2) | combat (2)

material used: marble (10) | bronze (7) | Carrara marble (1) | oil paint (1) | copper alloy (1) | canvas (1)

collection: Vatican Museums (1) | Victoria and Albert Museum (1) | Capitoline Museums (1) | National Archaeological Museum (1) | National Archaeological Museum (1) | J. Paul Getty Museum (1) | National Museum of Rome (1) | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (1) | Thorvaldsen Museum (1) | Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (1) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (1) | Aquitaine Museum (1) | Musée de l'Éphèbe (1)

location: Naples National Archaeological Museum (2) | Zagreb (1) | Louvre Museum (1) | Getty Villa (1) | Vatican Museums (1) | Victoria and Albert Museum (1) | Capitoline Museums (1) | Apsley House (1) | National Archaeological Museum (1) | National Archaeological Museum (1) | Tuileries Garden (1) | Baths of Diocletian (1) | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (1) | Hall of Mirrors (1) | Thorvaldsen Museum (1) | Aquitaine Museum (1) | Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (1) | Room 702 (1)

part of: Danish Culture Canon (1)

exhibition history: Europeana 280 (1)

fabrication method: lost-wax casting (1)

Wounded Gaul

statue
(-99)
Galatians man nudity major trauma warrior combat helmet kneeling pubic hair shoulder belt

Croatian Apoxyomenos

statue
by anonymous (2nd century)
man athletics competitor hipshot nudity strigil pubic hair umbilicus Huequitos para Andrea

Doryphoros from Pompeii

statue
by anonymous (+0000-01-01T00:00:00Z)
man athletics competitor Achilles nudity contrapposto spear military personnel trunk pubic hair umbilicus

Seleucid Prince

statue
(180)
man nudity contrapposto Attalus II Philadelphus Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus prince Seleucid Empire Demetrius I Soter Alexander Balas pretender diadem umbilicus pubic hair

Victorious Youth

statue
by Lysippos (5th century)
man nudity pubic hair hipshot

Idolino

statue
(6th century)
athletics competitor man nudity contrapposto umbilicus Huequitos para Andrea buttocks intergluteal cleft glabrousness

Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker

sculpture
by Antonio Canova (1807)
Napoleon

Theseus Fighting the Minotaur

statue
by Étienne-Jules Ramey (1821)
Theseus man nudity club Minotaur combat

Leonidas at Thermopylae

painting
by Jacques-Louis David (1814)
Leonidas I Battle of Thermopylae

Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker

sculpture
by Antonio Canova (1806)
Napoleon sceptre eagle overcoat drapery globus cruciger Nike man contrapposto

Doryphoros

aesthetic canon / statue
by Polykleitos the Elder (450s)
man nudity military personnel contrapposto spear athletics competitor Achilles

Capitoline Antinous

statue
Antinous man nudity contrapposto ephebos Hermes glabrousness umbilicus

The Youth of Agde

statue
by anonymous (-3th century)
ephebos man standing nudity Alexander the Great drapery glabrousness umbilicus chlamys teenager melancholia

Theseus and the Minotaur

sculpture
by Antonio Canova (1781)

statue of Hercules

statue
(3rd century)
Hercules man nudity beard

Jason with the Golden Fleece

statue
by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1803)
Jason nudity sandal combat helmet spear gladius contrapposto walking fur Golden Fleece scabbard umbilicus pubic hair toe trunk drapery shoulder belt

Hercules and Lychas

sculpture
by Antonio Canova (1795)

Perseus by Antonio Canova (Vatican City)

statue
by Antonio Canova (1797)
Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Marcellus as Hermes Logios

statue
by Cleomenes (-20)
Marcus Claudius Marcellus Hermes nudity contrapposto drapery umbilicus buttocks intergluteal cleft Huequitos para Andrea man

Dying Gaul

statue
by Epigonus of Pergamum (230s)
Galatians agony man sitting warrior torc nudity major trauma cornu sword belt moustache pubic hair umbilicus