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    A herma (Ancient Greek: ἑρμῆς, pl. ἑρμαῖ hermai), commonly herm in English, is a sculpture with a head and perhaps a torso above a plain, usually squared...
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    Herm (Guernésiais: Haerme, ultimately from Old Norse arms 'arm', due to the shape of the island, or Old French eremite 'hermit') is one of the Channel...
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    Female Herm and Male Herm are a set of two neoclassical marble herms in the outdoor sculpture collection of the historic Oldfields estate, located on the...
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  • Look up herm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Herm is one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. Herm or L'Herm may also refer to: Herm, Landes...
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    cairn Boundary marker Crossroads (mythology) Dry stone Herm (sculpture) – Type of classical sculpture Hörgr – Type of altar or cult site, possibly consisting...
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    Venus de Milo (category Hellenistic sculpture)
    uncovered two large pieces of the sculpture and a third, smaller piece. A fragment of an arm, a hand holding an apple, and two herms were also found alongside...
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    Alcamenes and a herm of Aphrodite near the temple. It is unsure whether the statue of Aphrodite and the herm of Aphrodite were the same sculpture or two separate...
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    The Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca is an ancient Roman statue from the first half of the third century AD. The herm depicts the Greek philosopher Socrates...
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    just a continuation of my sculpture, one year at a time." Legendary curator Walter Hopps, who met Herms in 1956, "placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of...
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    re-used in the buildings, including fragments of sculptures from a funerary banquet, a herm (sculpture) and a statuette of Kybele. The Piraeus and the...
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  • B909) Hercules and the Wagoner Hercules at the crossroads Herillus Herm (sculpture) Hermaea Hermagoras of Amphipolis Hermaphroditus Hermarchus Hermeneumata...
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    the centre. In this area were found the bronze herm adapted from the Doryphorus of Polykleitos and the herm of an Amazon made by Apollonios son of Archias...
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    Archaic Greek Sculpture represents the first stages of the formation of a sculptural tradition that became one of the most significant in the entire history...
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    Bronze Herms: Questions of Mass Production in Antiquity" Art Journal 54.2, Conservation and Art History (Summer 1995:53-59) p. 55; the other herm, based...
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    Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca (Antikensammlung Berlin)...
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    of Harmodius (of which both are missing and restored in the Neapolitan sculpture), reaching backwards, ready for a downward-slashing stroke. "Antenor's...
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    Antikythera Ephebe (category 4th-century BC Greek sculptures)
    (Berlin: Mann). Fraser, A. D. 1928."The Antikythera Bronze Youth and a Herm-Replica", American Journal of Archaeology 32.3 (July–September 1928), pp...
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    Assemblage (art) (category Types of sculpture)
    included less well known American West Coast assemblage artists such as George Herms, Bruce Conner and Edward Kienholz. William C Seitz, the curator of the exhibition...
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    Hermathena (composite of Hermes and Athena) (category Sculptures of Athena)
    Hermathene (Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαθήνη) was a composite statue, or rather a herm, which may have been a terminal bust or a Janus-like bust, representing the...
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  • Retrieved 25 September 2015. Furtwängler, Adolf, Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art, Volume 2, Charles Scribner's...
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    Stele (category Stone sculptures)
    the earliest mention of the name Israel An unusually well-preserved Greek herm (c. 520 BC), used as a boundary marker and to ward off evil A votive stela...
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    Piraeus Athena (category 4th-century BC Greek sculptures)
    bronze statue of Artemis, a large, bronze tragic mask, a herm, two bronze shields, two marble herms, and a small marble statue of Artemis Kindyas. The room...
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    Atlas (architecture) (category Architectural sculpture)
    building, which is rarely the case with terms and caryatids. The herma or herm is a classical boundary marker or wayside monument to a god which is usually...
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    famous sculpture of this figure is the Sleeping Hermaphroditus.[citation needed] Hermaphroditus, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille A life-size sculpture of Hermaphroditus...
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  • Roman Ideal Sculpture: The Allure of the Classical. Cambridge University Press, 2008 (hardback), 2014 (paperback). “The Mutilation of the Herms: Violence...
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    matched by another base on the other side of the Way. Both may have borne herms. On the south side of the temple there are three large monument bases: one...
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    Seneca the Younger Ancient bust of Seneca, part of the Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca Born c. 4 BC Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Spain) Died...
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    Classical Sites. Princeton University Press. p. SIDON (Saida) Lebanon entry. Herm, Gerhard (1975). The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient World...
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    Atlas Slave (category Sculptures by Michelangelo)
    chained up in various poses representing prisoners leaning on the pillars and herms which flanked the niches. As they were coupled with each niche (featuring...
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    Pestalozzi, Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, the Countess of Montgelas (pictured) and a herm of the Emperor Napoleon. In later life he was an inmate of Thorberg Castle...
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