#bronzework

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Roman bronze sculpture of a wolf's head. Artist unknown; 1st cent. CE. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Bronze vase, 1644-1704, China.

[lionofchaeronea]

Etruscan bronze mirror, depicting a scene from the expedition of Jason and the Argonauts in quest of the Golden Fleece. Talos (center), the giant man of bronze built by Daedalus to guard the coast of Crete, does battle with Zetes and Calais, the winged sons of Boreas the North Wind. He holds one brother in a headlock while the other seizes his waist.

Now in the Etruscan Gallery of the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany. Photo credit: Gary Todd | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Greek bronze figurine representing Nike, the winged goddess of victory, in a pose of motion. The figurine would have originally been attached to a larger votive vessel, such as a tripod. Artist unknown; ca. 500 BCE (Archaic period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Greek bronze tripod foot in the shape of a sphinx, dating to ca. 600 BCE (Archaic period). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Greek statuette (solid cast bronze) of a boxer. The man's hands are wrapped in leather thongs, which served as Greco-Roman antiquity's counterpart to modern boxing gloves, and he holds a sponge. Oil lamps would originally have been suspended from the base on which he stands. Artist unknown; 1st cent. BCE (late Hellenistic period). Now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA. Photo credit: Walters Art Museum.

[lionofchaeronea]

Frieze (gilt bronze inset with hard stones and turquoise) made by an unknown 15th-century artist at the monastery of Densatil, Tibet. This frieze depicts Nagaraja, a deity, common to Hinduism and Buddhism, who rules the nagas, half-human, half-serpent beings residing in the Underworld (Patala). It now resides in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA.

[lionofchaeronea]

Bronze head of a goat. Artist unknown; 3rd-1st cent. BCE (Hellenistic period). Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo credit: Cleveland Museum of Art.