I’ve never seen these eyes in Greek sculpture, before now. What a revelation, after years of seeing nothing but sad, hollow sockets. Thank you!!!

The video is almost as good as the art! 😊 Great subject matter, great descriptions, and extra lesson in mythology! Please keep them coming! 🙏

So glad that some of the bronzes survive!

We are facing a real masterpiece. Thanks a lot Smarthistory 🌹

Oh my god! That soothing voices of the curators make it so much delightful to listen. Hats off! ❤

In croatia we also have a good preserved bronze apoxiomenos, beautiful almost as this one 🤩

Very cool, amazing to see something so well kept from 2300 years ago

Just stunning, beautiful. I was in the old Athens Museum in the 70s. I was alone in a gallery which had a statue of Apollo ( larger than life ) at the end of a long gallery.. I walked towards it. He stood with his arms outstretched, palms upwards. It was eerie I approached, and it was if I was suspended in time. I had no idea what I was going to say, but reached out put my hand in his, looked up at his beautiful face and qwillec and asked him to show me his power, it was a surreal almost out of body experience, and one I treasure to this day. I retuned there 40:years later, and he was no longer there. I know he was definitely there, as I had a post card of hm back in the UK. I asked a guard what had happened to him. He stated there had never been a statue of Apollo. I didn’t correct him, but walked away, a little dejected, saddened and with a feeling of emptiness. I felt I had lost something rare and (f,or me) unforgettable a serene moment of my life.

Also sometimes called the Ball Player. Or those fingers might have been involved in the hair of the Medusa, making it a Perseus. But it seems to me it may not be a mythic subject at all, but rather an athlete or warrior reaching out with a token of victory, such as a laurel wreath. Whatever, it's a marvellous sculpture.

Glass paste is a new material for me. Still holding my breath on that new art in motion series. 😋 The Paris theory definitely makes sense, I'm fairly convinced. It's a great figure, whoever it is.

This is a rarely spoken subject so thank you for the nice lecture.

I can’t help but think of the sculpture brought ashore in “Call me by your Name”. Elio and Oliver making a truce through the ancient youth’s bronze arm. 😭

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Excellent vid, subbed!

he's beautiful- and he could walk right off his pedestal and come and speak with you with his apple. 🍎

For it to be in such pristine shape. Amazing

Do the antikythera device next!

Can you imagine the original sculptor knowing almost 2500 years later his creation is still amazing people.

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Looks like the sculpture in call me by your name

Amazing how the antikithera shipwreck had the best art and technology in the world. What else was on that ship? Really worth studying even more, imo.

Could u look at the Colossus of Barletta

Is this from the same wreck as Antikythera Mechanism? Or are there lots of wrecks near Antikythera?

This statue wasnt there when i visited in 2019.Maybe on loan or repair?

While I greatly appreciate this content just one thing: How on earth would you come to the conclusion that the gesture is about "offering" something? I lack any contextual knowledge about this. And yet - this pose is boldly presenting sth, it's brash or intimidating.

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