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  • Period: 17th–18th Century
  • Subject: Mythology & Folklore

Found 11 sculptures.

Standing Psyche and Love marble sculpture displayed on a pedestal in a museum gallery with visitors in the background.

Standing Psyche and Love

A neoclassical marble group showing Psyche offering Cupid a butterfly.

 Antonio Canova’s Hercules and Lychas marble sculpture showing Hercules lifting Lychas overhead.

Hercules and Lychas

A dramatic marble group showing Hercules hurling the unsuspecting youth into the air.

 Daedalus and Icarus marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, showing an older man fitting wings onto a younger man.

Daedalus and Icarus

An early Canova sculpture balancing ideal beauty with realism and dramatic contrast.

 Neptune and Triton marble sculpture showing Neptune holding a trident over a kneeling Triton in a museum hall.

Neptune and Triton

A marble Baroque sculpture inspired by a scene from Virgil’s Aeneid.

 Marble sculpture of Pluto abducting Proserpina, with a multi-headed dog at the base.

The Rape of Proserpina

A dramatic marble group capturing the violent abduction and twisting motion.

 The Goat Amalthea marble sculpture showing a shaggy goat with two small child-like figures beside it.

The Goat Amalthea

An early marble group of putti by Bernini, now in Rome.

 Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne marble sculpture showing Apollo lunging toward Daphne as she transforms into a tree.

Apollo and Daphne

A dramatic marble group capturing a nymph’s transformation into a laurel tree.

 Marble sculpture of A Faun Teased by Children showing a muscular nude figure reaching up toward grapes and a child, with another child near the base.

A Faun Teased by Children

A marble work by Bernini and his father, completed in the early 17th century.

 Milo of Croton sculpture on a tall pedestal in a public square, with old buildings behind it.

Milo of Croton

A dramatic marble group showing the athlete’s fatal struggle with a lion.

 Theseus and the Minotaur marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, showing Theseus seated on the defeated Minotaur in a museum hall.

Theseus and the Minotaur

A calm neoclassical group showing victory of reason over irrationality.

 Orfeo y Eurídice marble statues displayed on pedestals in a museum gallery

Orfeo y Eurídice

Two figures capture the tragic moment of doubt and loss from myth.