Reproduction patinated by hand. Mold made from an imprint of the original work exhibited at the Louvre. This statuette belongs to the well-known series of geometrically styled bronze horses, which are among the subtlest creations of Greek bronze artists of the 8th century B.C.. This was the age when art forms, whether graphic or plastic, were expressed by simplifying figures borrowed from geometry. Following the example of the vase painters, who endlessly combined their variations on the themes of the meander, triangle, lozenge, etc., the bronze artists also adapted the living silhouette to
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