The Ancient Greeks were a force to be reckoned with when it came to their creative vision of the human form. Featuring exquisite works from the British Museum’s world-renowned collection along with international loans, breathtaking marble and bronze sculptures will celebrate the figure in all its – nude – glory. Highlights include a bronze athlete recently discovered in Croatia as well as the exceptional works by three of the greatest Ancient Greek sculptors Myron, Polykleitos and Phidias.
Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art
: Apoxyomenos. Bronze, Hellenistic or Roman replica after a bronze original from the second quarter or the end of the 4th century BC. © Tourism Board of Mali Losinj 
Detail of head of Apoxyomenos. Bronze, Hellenistic or Roman replica after a bronze original from the second quarter or the end of the 4th century BC. © Tourism Board of Mali Losinj 
Marble statue of a naked Aphrodite crouching at her bath, also known as Lely’s Venus. Roman copy of a Greek original, 2nd century AD. Lent by Her Majesty the Queen 
: Ilissos. Marble statue from the West pediment of the Parthenon. Designed by Phidias, Athens, Greece, 438BC-432BC. © The Trustees of the British Museum. 
Belvedere Torso, 1st century BC. Vatican, Museo, Pio-Clementino. © 2015. Photo Scala, Florence 
Pottery: black-figured amphora: the death of Priam. Greek, 550BC-540BC (circa). Vulci, Lazio, Italy. © The Trustees of the British Museum 
Marble statuette of Socrates. A Hellenistic original of the 2nd century BC, or a Roman copy, Alexandria, Egypt. © The Trustees of the British Museum 
The bronze statuette of Ajax. Greece, 720BC-700BC. © The Trustees of the British Museum 
A figure of a naked man, possibly Dionysos. Marble statue from the East pediment of the Parthenon. © The Trustees of the British Museum. 
Westmacott Youth - Roman copy from 1st century AD of a lost Greek original of about 430 BC. © The trustees of the British Museum
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