Praxiteles
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Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue. Whil
The Resting Satyr
Hermes bearing the child Dionysos, Archaeological Museum of Olympia
The Louvre Apollo Sauroctonos
Leconfield Head at Petworth House
Lyceus
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The Apollo Lyceus type, also known as Lycean Apollo, originating with Praxiteles and known from many full-size statue and figurine copies as well as from 1st century BCE Athenian coinage, is a statue
Praxiteles
…Museum in Paris, but pressure from Greece, which disputes the work's provenance and legal ownership, caused the French to exclude it from the show. The Apollo Lykeios or Lycian Apollo, another Apollo-type reclining on a tree, is usually attributed to Praxiteles. It shows the god resting on a support (a tree trunk or…
A statue of the Apollo Lykeios type at the Louvre
Statuette of the Apollo Lykeios type, Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens (inv. BI 236)
Sleeping Apollo, Roman (Hermitage Museum)