Reconstruction of the east pediment of the Parthenon according to drawing by Karl Schwerzek (1896).
Athena has just emerged from Zeus’s skull fully armed and equipped. She is looking at him. The King of the Gods is looking back at her amazed and surprised. Nike is intending to put a wreath on the head of a newborn goddess. On the right, Hephaestus can be seen holding an axe with which he split Zeus’s skull.
Date: A.D. 2nd century (Torso, head and sphere; the rest parts were reconstructed and added in 1844 according to the then views of the iconography of Victor)
Provinience: Rome, Roman National Museum, Baths of Diocletian, Small Cloister of the Certosa (Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Terme di Diocleziano, Chiostro piccolo della Certosa).
[ID: A sculpture of a lion, with a detailed incised mane and thick heavy limbs; its front left paw is raised and resting on a bright gold ball, in contrast with the dark grey-green of the rest of it.]
I see u there, Caesar Augustus, with your lil crab claw hairdo and your sticky-out ears. How you been, my man?
[ID: A marble statue of Augustus, seen from the chest up; he is draped in fabric, including a sheet of fabric covering his head from the crown of his hair backwards. He has pleasantly stick-out ears, a nondescript face, and short-cropped hair that subtly forms a “crab claw” lock in front, evoking imagery of Alexander the Great.]
A list of paintings and sculptures from the Louvre in order of appearance as seen in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s new music video Apeshit (from their new album Everything is Love):
