Solid Bronze Ancient Greek Caryatid of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis Handmade Classical Craft Statue hotsell 16cm

Solid Bronze Ancient Greek Caryatid of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis Handmade Classical Craft Statue

Specifications
Height 16cm
Weight 890gr
Material Bronze

Category Bronze, Sculptures, Statues, Greek Roman Mythology, Greek Roman Mythology

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HANDMADE PRODUCT
Traditionally made with the method of casting bronze and with a museum-like oxidization.

Caryatid, in classical architecture, draped female figure used instead of a column as a support. In marble architecture they first appeared in pairs in three small buildings (treasuries) at Delphi (550–530 bc), and their origin can be traced back to mirror handles of nude figures carved from ivory in Phoenicia and draped figures cast from bronze in archaic Greece. According to a story related by the 1st-century-bc Roman hotsell architectural writer Vitruvius, caryatids represented the women of Caryae, who were doomed to hard labour because the town sided with the Persians in 480 bc during their second invasion of Greece.