The Three Graces (1813-1814), Antonio Canova (?) (1757-1822), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

The Three Graces, celebrated in classical literature and art, were the daughters of Jupiter (or Zeus in Greek mythology), and companions to the Muses. Thalia (youth and beauty) is accompanied by Euphrosyne (mirth), and Aglaia (elegance).It was commissioned from Antonio Canova by John Russel, 6th Duke of Bedford, who visited the sculptor in his studio in Rome in 1814, and was captivated by the group of the Three Graces which Canova had carved for the Empress Josephine, the estranged wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. She had died in May of that year, and the Duke offered to buy the group from Canova, but Josephine's son claimed it, and that version is now in the Hermitage, St Petersburg.

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The Three Graces

Processed scan Lidar+photogrammetry dataset from Cyark Open Heritage Project: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/cyark
Processed in Reality Caputre ,  added water texture and reconstruction lines based on Peirene Fountain, ca. A. D. 160. by C. Iliakis, from Petros G. Themelis.
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Pirene or Peirene is the name of a fountain or spring in Greek mythology, physically located in Corinth. It was said to be a favored watering-hole of Pegasus, sacred to the Muses. Poets would travel there to drink and receive inspiration.

In the 2nd century CE the traveler Pausanias describes Pirene as follows:

On leaving the market-place along the road to Lechaeum you come to a gateway, on which are two gilded chariots, one carrying Phaethon the son of Helius, the other Helius himself. A little farther away from the gateway, on the right as you go in, is a bronze Heracles.

Peirene Fountain, Corinth - Greece

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In ancient Greek mythology Ethiopian princess Andromeda was bound to a rock amid the waves of the Red sea. Why? Her mother, Cassiopeia boasted that Andromeda is far more beautifull then all the nymphs of the sea! This angered the god Poseidon who sent a monster creature, Cetus (Ketos) to torment people of ancient Ethiopia. The princess was to be eaten by a sea moster to soothe the anger of the god! In the very last moment a hero - Perseus flew (on Hermes winged sandals) and saved the princess from the vile beast.

When researching Andromeda, I could only find white, pale damsels in distress. Angered by this I wanted to depict Andromeda as a true African princess. I disliked the concept of a helpless damsel and decided to give her some character. I also wanted to portray Ketos as a bewildered sea dragon not an angry whale.

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Andromeda & Ketos

Ancient Corinth sits in a strategic position between land and sea and the ancient Greek city came to prominence by controlling area trade routes. An important cultural center throughout history, the city was known for its artistic innovations and the ruins today show numerous Greek, Roman, and Byzantine architectural features. The heart of ancient Corinth was the Fountain of Peirene, a freshwater spring featured in Greek mythology which also served as the primary source of water for Corinth.

Experimental, reconstructed from CyArk's public data: https://openheritage3d.org/project.php?id=h3r7-t916
3x18 textures

Ancient Corinth

Adonis (A53), 1887, Executed by August Saabye after Thorvaldsen's original plaster model 1808, Marble, height: 186 cm. Thorvaldsen Musem (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with ReMake and ReCap Pro from AutoDesk.

Adonis is the most handsome and sought-after young man in Greek mythology, but his birth was defiled in that he was born as the son of a woman called Myrrha, who had had an incestuous relationship with her father. As a punishment, Myrrha was changed into a tree – the myrrh tree. And when the appointed time had passed, the bark of the tree burst and the infant Adonis came into the world. In a certain sense, Adonis was doomed from the start, and he was indeed only quite young when he was killed by a wild boar during a hunt. We can see the tree on which he is supporting himself and the dead hare as references to his birth and death respectively. 

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Adonis (A53)

In classical Greek mythology, Hercules is assigned twelve superhuman labors to complete. The eighth of these is to capture the man-eating horses of Diomedes, king of Thrace. In most accounts, Hercules subdues and steals the mares, killing Diomedes and feeding him to his own horses.

"The sculpture depicted the two heroes of Greek mythology—both stark naked—locked in a wrestling match. Hercules was holding Diomedes upside down, preparing to throw him, while Diomedes was tightly gripping Hercules’ penis, as if to say, “Are you sure you want to throw me?” 
- Prof. Langdon
Dan Brown, Inferno

Hercules & Diomedes Classical Sculpture

Fountain basin with Muse Erato in Baden near Vienna. This fountain with the lyre-playing Muse Erato is located on Theaterplatz. The figure from 1902 was designed by Josef Valentin Kassin and stood until 1973 in a flower arrangement in front of the theater. Then followed the transformation into a fountain.

Erato is one of the nine muses in Greek mythology. She is the muse of love poetry of lyricism, song and dance. She is a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

Eratobrunnen

Herakles from Hadrians villa in Tivoli Skopas. Greek, mid 4th century BC, Rome copy, Malibu, J.p. Getty Museum. The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

Heracles , born Alcaeus or Alcides, was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules. Many popular stories were told of his life, the most famous being The Twelve Labours of Heracles.

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Herakles

The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. The same staff was also borne by heralds in general, for example by Iris, the messenger of Hera. It is a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings. In Roman iconography, it was often depicted being carried in the left hand of Mercury, the messenger of the gods, guide of the dead, and protector of merchants, shepherds, gamblers, liars, and thieves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus

Old Caduceus statuette

Muse in the park of Belvedere Palace in the 3rd district of Vienna. The statue is depicted with a lyre. It could be the Olympic muse Terpsichore. 

In Greek mythology, muses are patron goddesses of the arts.

Muse

In Greek mythology, Ariadne is the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete. She falls in love with Theseus, and gives him the ball of thread that later allows him to escape the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur. She escapes  with him to Athens. But he abandons her, asleep, on the island of Naxos.
This 3rd-century-AD statue – a Roman copy of a Hellenistic work – is desplayed in the Room 35 of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
After 220 years, this statue came back to the Uffizi museum in Florence in 2012.

Arianna dorme, abbandonata sull’isola di Nasso dall’uomo di cui è perdutamente innamorata, Teseo. A lui la donna, figlia di Minosse, aveva procurato il gomitolo di lana che permise all’eroe, dopo aver ucciso il Minotauro, di uscire vivo dal Labirinto di Creta. Con lui era in seguito fuggita ad Atene.Egli però la fece addormentare sull'isola di Nasso e la abbandonò.
La statua, conservata nella sala 35 della Galleria degli Uffizi di Firenze, è la copia romana di una scultura ellenistica del III secolo d.C.

Sleeping Ariadne / Arianna dormiente

Statue of the Greek heroic figure Jason in the park of Schönbrunn Palace. In Greek mythology, Jason was the son of Aison. He is best known as the leader of the Argonauts, who traveled to the Caucasus in search of the Golden Fleece. Jason holds the conquered ram's skin in his hands, at his feet the conquered dragon. The sculpture was created under the direction of Johann Wilhelm Beyer around the year 1777 and is made of Sterzinger marble.

Jason

Ganymede with Jupiter's Eagle, 1817, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Marble. 93,3 x 118,3 cm. Thorvaldsen Museum (Copenhagen, Copenhagen). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

In Greek mythology the boy Ganymede was carried up into the sky, to the home of the gods on Olympus to be the gods’ taster. According to legend it was Zeus, in the shape of an eagle, who took the beautiful boy from Phrygia in the north-western part of Asia Minor (Turkey). The effect of Thorvaldsen’s sculpture is created mostly by the contrast between the smooth skin of the boy and his trusting nature, which is juxtaposed by the detailed rendering of the eagle’s feathers, its harsh look and its sharp beak. Ganymede was to take the place of Hebe as the taster of the gods, because she spilled the drink – the nectar – that made the gods immortal. Thorvaldsen modelled the group sculpture in 1817 and it exists in several marble copies.

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Ganymede with Jupiter's Eagle

Based on the figure from Greek mythology. This one is based on a variant of the Medusa myth where Medusa is really a victim of the gods' actions. As such, the goal was to give her a friendly appearance more befitting a hero protagonist.

Medusa is the first model I made of my own design, so she's a little rougher compared to some of my later models. Still, I'm happy with how she turned out.
If you'd like to see more like this, feel free to check out [my DeviantArt gallery](https://www.deviantart.com/sab64/gallery/93013033/original-characters).

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Medusa

For proper use, we recommend downloading the source format.The viewer version is intended for web viewing only. In the Original format, the following are fully preserved:✔ full scene structure✔ unsimplified materials✔ accurate texture maps✔ original object namesIf you are going to integrate the model into a project, select the source file.This sculpture represents Mercury Hermes in Greek mythology the fleet footed messenger of the gods. Wearing his signature winged hat the god sits with relaxed poise one leg forward and the other bent beneath him creating a casual but elegant posture. His right hand likely once held a caduceus and his gaze gently cast downward suggests wit and calm intelligence. The detailing in the anatomy and drapery balances divine strength with a very human expressiveness.

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