The Boxer by Konstantin Somov 1933

Mitoraj statue in Greve in Chianti

Geyger, Ernst Moritz (1861 Rixdorf - Marignolle 1941) Bogenschütze

The Fisherman With a Net by Frédéric Bazille, 1868

Looks like a statute. Beautiful

Vive la France, Pierre et Gilles, 2006

The Dying Slave is a sculpture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Created between 1513 and 1516. It is a marble figure 2.15 metres (7' 4") in height, and is exhibited at the Louvre, Paris.

The Age of Bronze (French: L'âge d'airain) is a bronze statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). The figure is of a life-size nude male, 72 in. (182.9 cm) high. Rodin continued to produce casts of the statue for several decades after it was modelled in 1876.

Duquesnoy Adonis, also known as Adonis Mazarin, is a marble sculpture by Flemish artist François Duquesnoy, who completed it in the early 17th century. It depicts Adonis, the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology. The backward tilt of the figure is reminiscent of bronze Mercury

Walter Shirlaw.1838-1909. Study of a Man with Staff.1871. Charcoal on buff laid paper

Happy Thanksgiving.

Not the most artistic but fun. Good Housekeeping Magazine 1943

Bronze statue of an athlete from Ephesus cleaning his strigil 1st century CE copy of 4th century BCE Greek original

The Barberini Faun, Fauno Barberini or Drunken Satyr. A faun is the Roman equivalent of a Greek satyr. In Greek mythology, satyrs were human-like male woodland spirits with several animal features, often a goat-like tail, hooves, ears, or horns. Satyrs attended Dionysus.

The last post reminded me of Robert Mapplethorpe's artistic nude photography. www.mapplethorpe.org/portfolios/p...

Study (Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Hippolyte Flandrin executed between 1835 and 1836. It is held in the Louvre, in Paris, and is the best-known work by the artist.

The Doryphoros, "Spear-Bearer"; Latinised as Doryphorus of Polykleitos is one of the best known Greek sculptures of Classical antiquity, depicting a solidly built, muscular, standing warrior, originally bearing a spear balanced on his left shoulder.

Hercules and Cacus. Sculpted by Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli mostly from 1525 through 1534.

One of my favorites. David was created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. The statute is over 5 meters tall.