The sculpture of the charioteer is one of the most famous works of Greek art. Art historians are of the opinion that it is part of a four-horse chariot that Hieron of Syracuse donated to the sanctuary of Apollo as a votive gift. Original: Museum, Delphi, early classical, c. 475 BC Polymer ars mundi museum replica, cast by hand. Reduction. Hand-painted and finely patinated. Height incl. marble base: approx. 34 cm.
Elaborately handcrafted Sicilian Aphrodite from Syracuse, Hellenistic, 240-200 B.C. The original is in the National Museum of Naples. Reduction made of high-quality, weather-resistant cast stone. Size 35 x 94 cm (W/H). Weight approx. 40 kg.
No other fragment of ancient sculpture has been the subject of so much praise over the centuries. From Michelangelo to Rodin, many of the greatest artists have worked on the torso. This special edition of the torso was created in collaboration with the Glyptothek in Munich and we are able to offer it to you at an exceptional price. Original: 1st century BC, height 159 cm. Vatican, Museo Pio-Clementino, Sala delle Muse. Marble. Reduction. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand, with diabase base. Total height 35 cm, plinth 16 x 15 x 4 cm.
The legendary warhorse of Alexander the Great in a majestic pose. Original: Musée du Louvre, Paris, marble. Around 300 BC, Hellenistic. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand in the format 29 x 22 x 6 cm, with hanging device.
As the centre of ritual games and the most noble sacrifice to the mother goddess, the bull was always held in high esteem by the Minoans. The uniquely beautiful bull's head rhyton - a masterpiece from Knossos - served the priestesses as a libation vessel from whose nostrils the Cretan wine flowed. Original: Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. New Knosos Palace. Late Minoan, 16th century B.C. The replica impresses with its quality and excellent material processing. The green-black polymer ars mundi museum replica (moulded by hand) contrasts effectively with the gilded horns. Width 25 cm, height 42 cm.
Even today, doctors still take the oath that, according to legend, the 'forefather' of all doctors made his pupils swear. He was a 'specialist doctor' for dislocations, sports and war injuries. Above all, his active research and teaching activities make him a shining light in history. Original: National Museum of Naples, Roman copy, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand. Size including base 21 x 10 x 11 cm (h/w/d).
The sculpture of the charioteer is one of the most famous works of Greek art. Art historians are of the opinion that it is part of a four-horse chariot that Hieron of Syracuse donated to the sanctuary of Apollo as a votive gift. Original: Museum, Delphi, Early Classical, c. 475 BC Bronze, cast by hand using the lost wax technique. Antique green patina. ars mundi museum replica. Reduction. Height including marble base 34 cm.
Bishop Eusebios warned against the goddess of love, who seduces people into unchristian practices. For her and the Bithynian king Nicomedes I, Doidalses invented this variant: with her head turned to the side, she crouches down to have her bath water poured over her after a night of love. The triangular composition is also a sophisticated embodiment of her sacred initial, the Phoenician-Greek A of Astarte-Aphrodite. Original: Vatican Museum, Rome. Hellenistic, 3rd century BC; Roman copy after Doidalses, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica moulded by hand. Size 28 x 53 x 19 cm (w/h/d).
The original of the writing disc shown here was created in 1650 BC and was found in the Minoan palace of Phaistos in 1908. The writing consists of 45 hieroglyphs, which are to be read in a clockwise direction: Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Diameter 15 cm.
For a long time, this writing plate with 45 ancient Cretan characters eluded all attempts to decipher it. Today, many researchers believe that they are mystical formulas from two sanctuaries. Original: Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Minoan, around 1650 BC, ceramic. Height incl. base 18 cm. Diameter 16 cm.
In this goddess of love, probably created by Alexandros from Antioch, the late classical, sublime model has been effectively modified. The mouth and eyes have become an invitation, and so she embodies the feminine ideal of Hellenism. original: Musee du Louvre, Paris. Place of discovery: Melos. Hellenistic, around 150 B.C. Artificial marble. Height with plinth 52 cm.
Cyclades, 350 to 300 BC, original: National Museum, Athens, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand. Plinth: 12 x 15 x 15 cm (h/w/d), total height incl. plinth 51 cm.
It happened on 16 August 1972 on the Calabrian coast not far from the strait between the Italian mainland and Sicily: Italian scuba diver Stefano Mariottini accidentally came across an arm, a knee and toes sticking dark green out of the sand at a depth of 8 metres. A few days later, frogmen from Messina recovered the two completely intact bronze statues, which were almost 2 metres tall, using an air-filled balloon. The statues of the two unclothed Greek heroes were probably travelling to Rome, where Greek art was very popular in Roman times, when their ship was shipwrecked near Riace. They once carried shields, spears or swords. The genius sculptor Phidias is regarded as their creator. When the bronzes were freed from their calcareous incrustations after 7 long years, they aroused the admiration of 1 million people in Florence. At their second exhibition venue, the Quirinal Palace in Rome, the record number of visitors was surpassed. The beauty and artistic expression of the heroes of Riace are unique. They are bronze-cast images of the Greek ideal of harmony between body and mind. Original from around 452 BC, in the Museo Reggio di Calabria. Reduction. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, cast by hand. With fine bronze patina. On a diabase plinth, size 15 x 15 x 5 cm, height with plinth approx. 51 cm.
The will to power is written on the sublime forehead of the titanic, curly-haired youth with his faraway gaze, open, covetous lips and energetic chin. Alexander was only 20 years old when he succeeded his father. In the years that followed, he conquered the largest empire that had ever existed. Original: British Museum London. Leochares. Circa 338 BC, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica moulded by hand. Height with anthracite-coloured marble base 49 cm.
The Attic sculptor Leochares (375-310 BC), who helped to complete one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, realised the ideal of the god-like heroic Olympian with the 'Praying Ephebe'. In the sacred precinct of Diadumenos near Olympia, the splendour of the eternal fire fell on the youth crowning himself with the victor's armband. Raising his arms high above his head, he invokes the blessing of the immortals. Original: Bronze, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Pergamonmuseum. Leochares, c. 320 BC Edition in bronze. Original size 139 cm. Weight approx. 80 kg.
The Attic sculptor Leochares (375-310 BC), who helped to complete one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, realised the ideal of the god-like heroic Olympian with the 'Praying Ephebe'. In the sacred precinct of Diadumenos near Olympia, the splendour of the eternal fire fell on the youth crowning himself with the victor's armband. Raising his arms high above his head, he invokes the blessing of the immortals. Original: Bronze, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Pergamonmuseum. Leochares, c. 320 BC Polymer ars mundi museum replica, cast by hand and patinated by hand. Reduction, height approx. 75 cm.
The Attic sculptor Leochares (375-310 BC), who helped to complete one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World at the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, realised the ideal of the god-like heroic Olympian with the 'Praying Ephebe'. In the sacred precinct of Diadumenos near Olympia, the splendour of the eternal fire fell on the youth crowning himself with the victor's armband. Raising his arms high above his head, he invokes the blessing of the immortals. Original: Bronze, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Pergamonmuseum. Leochares, c. 320 BC Reduction, height incl. square plinth 75 cm. Base dimensions approx. 7 x 18 x 17 cm (h/w/d). Version in white, polymer-bonded artificial marble.
The replica impresses with its quality and excellent material processing. The green and black polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand, contrasts effectively with the gold-plated horns. Original: Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. New Palace of Knossos. Late Minoan, 16th century BC Height including plinth 56.5 cm. Base size 12 x 11 x 12 cm (w/h/d). Weight 11 kg.
Although Apollo's son had softened the underworld with song and teaching and returned his nymphic wife to him, at the end of the path, when the glow of light can already be seen, he turns to her, overwhelmed by love. Thus he breaks the commandment of the gods, and even Hermes, who has rushed in, is unable to prevent her disappearance into the shadows. Original: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Attic, c. 410 BC, Roman copy of an original attributed to Pheidias, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica moulded by hand. Size 52 x 62 cm, with suspension device.
He preferred an intense life to a long one. In just a few years, the titanic youth transformed the whole of antiquity and carried Greek civilisation as far as the Nile and Indus. But although he considered himself a god, he was unable to realise his grandiose political vision, the fusion of Orient and Occident - Leochares, along with Praxiteles the most important sculptor of the late classical period, immortalised his essence: his beauty and genius, his cruelty and his goodness. Original: Acropolis Museum, Athens. Leochares, 335 BC, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica moulded by hand, height with base 49 cm.
With the triumvirate of Skopas, Praxiteles and Lysipp, the 'beautiful style' of late classical Greece was born. Praxiteles avoided anything heroic or titanic in his sculptures; even his virtuosically chiselled gods appear in an amiable, human form. His famous originals, such as the 'Aphrodite of Knidos', the 'Hermes of Olympia', the 'Lizard Catcher' and the 'Pouring Satyr' have been irretrievably lost, but Roman replicas still bear witness to them. Then, however, a unique find shook the art world: Greek fishermen near Marathon recovered a statue of a youth of unrivalled beauty, which can be attributed almost beyond doubt to Praxiteles. It is probably Hermes himself who is delighting posterity here and drawing us into the happy tranquillity of his Elysian existence. Original: National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Praxiteles, Attic, c. 330 B.C. Artistic bronze. Height with marble base 36 cm.
Together with Skopas and Lysipp, the Athenian Praxiteles is considered the most important sculptor of the late classical period. The artist surrounds his statues with a veil of calm contemplation that strangely enraptures the figures, while the viewer is drawn into the sphere of influence of the artwork precisely as a witness to this seclusion. The originals of his works have been lost and would have been irretrievably lost if the ancient Romans had not made replicas of them. But then a unique find shook posterity: Greek fishermen recovered a statue of a youth of unrivalled beauty from the sea near Marathon, which can be attributed without doubt to Praxiteles. Original: National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Praxiteles, Attic, around 330 BC Reduction. Hand-patinated artistic casting with natural stone base. Height incl. plinth 68 cm. Weight approx. 12 kg.
The maenads were the charming companions of Dionysus. At his festivals, they would get intoxicated with music and dance. Original: British Museum, London. Attic, late 5th century B.C. Marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand, with suspension device. Size 22 x 41.5 cm. Weight approx. 3 kg.
The three servants of Aphrodite symbolise cheerfulness, grace and happiness. To this day, this relief fragment characterises the classical ideal of beauty. Original: Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1st century BC, marble. Polymer ars mundi museum replica, moulded by hand. Size 30 x 30 cm, with hanging device.
