Agora is an installation of 106 headless and armless iron sculptures at the south end of Grant Park in Chicago. Designed by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz...
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The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis...
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about Hypatia of Alexandria Agora (sculpture), an art installation by Magdalena Abakanowicz in Chicago's Grant Park Agora (Paulinho da Costa album), a...
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(Ancient Greek: ἑρμῆς, plural ἑρμαῖ hermai), commonly herm in English, is a sculpture with a head and perhaps a torso above a plain, usually squared lower section...
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Stoa of Attalos (redirect from Ancient Agora Museum)
Attalos (also spelled Attalus) was a stoa (covered walkway or portico) in the Agora of Athens, Greece. It was built by and named after King Attalos II of Pergamon...
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Temple of Ares (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
their protection. Architectural fragments and sculpture have been found scattered throughout the Agora in secondary use. The original foundations remain...
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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...
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The Agora of Smyrna, alternatively known as the Agora of İzmir (Turkish: İzmir Agorası), is an ancient Roman agora located in Smyrna (present-day İzmir...
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Washington Library, the Chicago Cultural Center and Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Agora sculpture. The building has been designed by architect Helmut Jahn who is known...
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(link) Stewart, Andrew (October–December 2018). "Classical Sculpture from the Athenian Agora, Part 1: The Pediments and Akroteria of the Hephaisteion"...
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Classical Athens (section Agora (lower city))
west of the Agora. The Temple of Ares, to the north of the Agora. Metroon, or temple of the mother of the gods, on the west side of the Agora. Besides these...
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Antenor after the establishment of Athenian democracy and erected in the Agora was stolen by the Persians when they occupied Athens in 480 during the Persian...
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Delphi (redirect from Roman Agora (Delphi))
buildings are the Eastern Baths, the house with the peristyle, the Roman Agora, and the large cistern. At the outskirts of the city late Roman cemeteries...
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Elgin Marbles (redirect from Elgin Collection of Ancient Marbles and Sculpture)
The Elgin Marbles (/ˈɛlɡɪn/ EL-ghin) are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens,...
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United Earth (category Sculptures in France)
Urbanowicz and Beata Urbanowicz in the Agora of the Seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The glass sculpture has a diameter of 180 cm (71 in) and...
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The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture. Many examples of even the most famous Greek sculptures, such as the Apollo...
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allowed only within two small designated zones, the "Nea Agora" (New Market) and the "Palaia Agora" (Old Market), with current regulations also restricting...
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Magdalena Abakanowicz (section Agora)
the name "agora". Furthermore, all the bodies are headless and armless giving them an eerie, anonymous look. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian...
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Capitoline Wolf (category Animal sculptures in Italy)
(Italian: Lupa Capitolina) is a bronze sculpture depicting a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome. The sculpture shows a she-wolf suckling the mythical...
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fleet Tholos, west side of Ancient Agora of Athens, is built (approximate date). Phidias begins producing the sculpture called The Athena Promachos (The...
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Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil (category Outdoor sculptures in Milwaukee)
disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm." Agora (sculpture) "Female Artist Month – Magdalena Abakanowicz", Art Factory Białystok...
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Common Peace of that year and set up a votive statue in her honour in the Agora of Athens. The statue was executed in bronze by Cephisodotus the Elder,...
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Leda, were commonly known in Attica.: 80–81 The Old Agora, the predecessor of the Classical Agora, was used in the fifth century and before as a rallying...
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Mold-made Megarian bowl from Cistern on Areopagus. Excavation of the Athenian Agora, catalogued P 18,640. Among the relief groups in the Pergamon Altar. Translated...
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Temple of Apollo Patroos (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
the fathers") is a small ruined temple on the west side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. The original temple was an apsidal structure, built in the mid-sixth...
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Polychrome (redirect from Polychrome sculpture)
architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery, or sculpture in multiple colors...
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Southeast Temple (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
octastyle prostyle temple located in the southeast corner of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Architectural fragments from the temple enable a full, if tentative...
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Alcamenes (category Pergamene sculpture)
refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese. However, the temple of Ares...
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Aphrodisias Museum. Many full-length statues were discovered in the region of the agora, and trial and unfinished pieces pointing to a true school are in evidence...
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in the first stage of the Greco-Persian Wars. The new group stood in the Agora of Athens and its composition is known from Roman copies. With Nesiotes...
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