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Dr William Sterling British Museum model of Olympia www.williamsterling.co.uk 1 2
Artist’s Impression of Temple of Zeus Model at Olympia Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk 3 4
Louvre model showing position of Zeus
Model of West Pediment, Louvre 5 6
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Steps to Temple of Zeus Dr William Sterling Temple of Zeus Interior www.williamsterling.co.uk 7 8
Dr William Sterling Bronze statue of Zeus from Artemision c 460 BC discovered 1926, Athens Fallen columns at Temple of Zeus www.williamsterling.co.uk 9 10
Statue of Zeus with eagle, Berlin
Phidias’s Workshop Olympia Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk 11 12
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Tools found in Phidias’s workshop Model of Phidias’s workshop
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Drapery moulds found in Phidias’s workshop Phidias’s cup showing inscription
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Artist’s Impression of Statue of Zeus
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Roman model of Statue of Zeus Hermitage Bronze Zeus, Louvre
Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk 19 20
Roman bronze of Jupiter, Roman Bronze model of Zeus, British Museum Walters Museum Baltimore
Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk 21 22
Zeus and Hera from the Parthenon Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk The Parthenon www.williamsterling.co.uk 23 24
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Diadumenos by Phidias Roman model of statue of Zeus from the Parthenon
Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 25 26
Bronze Griffins and Horse from Olympia C7th and C6th BC
Bronze horse c 460 BC 27 28
Hermes of Praxiteles from Temple of Hera Nike of Paionios from top of East Pediment with reconstruction Terracotta Zeus and Ganymede 480 BC C4th BC discovered 1877 29 30
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Bronze helmets from the Treasuries, c 600 BC, Etruscan captured by Hieron of Syracuse at Cumae 474 BC and Militaides’s helmet from Marathon 490 BC
Roman copy of sphinx on statue of Zeus armrest , Ephesus Museum Vienna
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Coins of Alexander
Coin from Elis
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Hellenistic coins showing Olympian Zeus
Dr William Sterling Tiberius Sword scabbard with Augustus as Zeus, British Museum www.williamsterling.co.uk 35 36
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Roman version of Niobids from Zeus frieze, British Museum Dr William Sterling Speculative reconstruction of Niobids on statue base using British Museum shield www.williamsterling.co.uk 37 38
Dr William Sterling Dying Niobids Dr William Sterling Artemis and Apollo www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 39 40
Garden of Sallust Niobid
Similar pose from the shield
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Louvre Niobid
Similar pose from the shield, flipped
Capitoline Niobid
Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 43 44
James Pradier 1822 Louvre Niobid
Munich Glyptotek Niobid
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Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling Copenhagen Niobids www.williamsterling.co.uk Heraklion Crete Niobids www.williamsterling.co.uk 47 48
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Details from the shield similar to the Crete Niobids East Pediment 49 50
From the East Pediment, River Alpheos, horses of Oinomaos and Groom
Sterope Oinomaos Pelops East Pediment 51 52
Soothsayer and River Kladeos
Hippodameia Maid with Pelops’s horses 53 54
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Lapith woman and Centaur seizing a Lapith woman from the West Pediment
West Pediment
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Centaur seizing Lapith woman and Lapith Lapith and Centaur fighting Apollo and a Lapith woman fighting of a Centaur from the West Pediment stabbing Centaur 57 58
Dr William Sterling Maarten de Vos 1614 Dr William Sterling Maarten van Heemskerck 1572 www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 59 60
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Pierre Valleran 1675-1700
Antonio Tempesta 1608 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 61 62
Statue of Zeus by Charles M Sheldon 1922
Artist’s Impression 63 64
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Horatio Greenough George Washington as Zeus 1840 now in the Smithsonian
1841 Washington statue by Horatio Greenough in original position c 1899 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk 71 72
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Apollo on the base of Greenough’s statue Infant Hercules on base of Greenough’s statue
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Ingres Jupiter and Thetis 1811
Dr William Sterling Lincoln Memorial Washington DC www.williamsterling.co.uk 75 76
Ingres Napoleon 1806
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