Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC ... are famous less as art objects than as objects of political controversy. For most people today, the Parthenon sculptures in ...

A decorative style of bold geometric shapes and bright colours, it encompassed furniture, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and architecture. The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the ...

Jean Dunand was a French Art Deco artist and designer ... Born in Lancy, Switzerland on May 20, 1877, Dunand first learned the trade of sculpture at the Geneva School of Industrial Arts in 1891 before ...

This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a dying human Lapith. This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also ...