Apoxyomenos
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Apoxyomenos is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved i
The Vatican Apoxyomenos by Lysippos, in the Museo Pio-Clementino, found in Trastevere, 1849. Height: 2.05 metres (6 feet 9 inches)
Head of a statue displayed at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb
Closeup on the lips
Ancient Greek sculpture
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The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. Modern scholars
Riders from the Parthenon Frieze, around 440 BC, key examples of Classical Greek sculpture
Jockey of Artemision. Late Hellenistic bronze statue of a mounted jockey, National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Natural marble
Athena in the workshop of a sculptor working on a marble horse, Attic red-figure kylix, 480 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2650)