Winning bronze: sculpture at the Royal Academy – in pictures
Athlete, Roman copy of Hellenistic original, school of Lysippos, from Herculaneum. Photograph: www.scalarchives.comChimera of Arezzo, Etruscan, c. 400 BCE BronzePhotograph: Antonio Quattrone/Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della ToscanaHead with Crown, 14th to early 15th centuryPhotograph: Scala, Florence
Adriaen de Vries, Vulcan's Forge, 1611 Photograph: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Walter HaberlandLouise Bourgeois, Spider IV, 1996Photograph: Peter Bellamy/courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Cheim & ReadBarthelemy Prieur, Acrobat, c. 1600Photograph: Jorg P Anders/bpk / Skulpturensammlung und Museen zu BerlinJasper Johns. Painted Bronze Ale CansPhotograph: DACSThe Buddha Shakyamuni in Abhaya-mudra, probably Bihar, Gupta Period, India, 6th century Photograph: Courtesy of Asia Society, New YorkGiovanfrancesco Rustici. The Pharisee, St John the Baptist and The Levite from The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, 1511 Photograph: Antonio Quattrone/Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore
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