What are statues for today?

The statue of Isabel la Católica intervened with chola clothes, this Monday, in La Paz (Bolivia) .AFP

Classical Greek statues portrayed exemplary men, also reflected aesthetic ideals.

They also portrayed mythology.

Phidias, one of the best known Greek sculptors, in charge of making the sculptures of Athena and Zeus (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world), sculptures we now know through words, in one of Pausanias's historical descriptions of Greece He begins by describing the materials: “The statue itself is made of ivory and gold.

In the center of his helmet there is a figure similar to the Sphinx ”.

This mention is important because it seems ...

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