page_title: Artemision Bronze
hierarchical_section_title: Artemision Bronze
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Statue de bronze de Zeus ou de Poséidon trouvée au large du Cap Artémision en Eubée. Le dieu étend son bras gauche vers l'avant de son corps et tient dans la main droite un trident ou un éclair. L'identification à Zeus ou Poséidon est controversée, la première restant plus probable. Il s'agit de l'une des rares statues originales de style sévère conservées, notables pour le rendu du mouvement et de l'anatomie. Vers 460 a. C. Hauteur&#160;: 2 mètres 09, largeur 2 mètres 10. Musée archéologique national, Athènes, n° Br.15161.
context_page_description: The Artemision Bronze is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea. It represents either Zeus or Poseidon, is slightly over lifesize at 209 cm, and would have held either a thunderbolt, if Zeus, or a trident if Poseidon. However, the iconography of Ancient Greek pottery portrays Poseidon wielding the trident, when in combat, in more of a stabbing motion; Zeus is depicted fighting with his arm raised, holding the lightning bolt overhead, in the same position as the Artemision Bronze. The empty eye-sockets were originally inset, probably with bone, as well as the eyebrows, the lips, and the nipples. The sculptor is unknown. The Poseidon/Zeus is a highlight of the collections in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
context_section_description: The Artemision Bronze (often called the God from the Sea) is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea. It represents either Zeus or Poseidon, is slightly over lifesize at 209 cm, and would have held either a thunderbolt, if Zeus, or a trident if Poseidon. However, the iconography of Ancient Greek pottery portrays Poseidon wielding the trident, when in combat, in more of a stabbing motion (similar to a fencing stance or an 'advance-lunge'); Zeus is depicted fighting with his arm raised, holding the lightning bolt overhead, in the same position as the Artemision Bronze (see 'Poseidon and the Giant Polybotes' an Attic Red Figure Stamnos attributed to the Trolios Painter, as well as 'Zeus hurling his lightning at Typhon' ca. 550 BC which is a black-figured Chalcidian hydria). The empty eye-sockets were originally inset, probably with bone, as well as the eyebrows (with silver), the lips, and the nipples (with copper). The sculptor is unknown. The Poseidon/Zeus is a highlight of the collections in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
caption: The Artemision Bronze (National Archaeological Museum of Athens).
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