The Victoire de Samothrace in Louvre Museum above Daru staircase in Denon wing
The Victoire de Samothrace Greek antiquities Sculpture (Statue)Materials: White marble, gray Marble Date: approx. between 200 and 170 before Artist: Anonymity Model: The Victoire Place: Museum of Louvre Daru staircase Denon wing - First stage Area in relation: Samothrace (Greece) Description The Greeks represented the Victoire in the shape of a winged woman. The monument of Samothrace constitutes the most imposing creation of this type. Charles Champoiseau, vice French Consul to Turkey-red cotton (Turkey) will discover this work with Samothrace, Aegean Island. It is composed of three elements: a rectangular base, a base appearing before ship and the statue of its Victoire. The base and the base are out of gray marble of Rhodos, the Victoire is out of white marble of Paros. The block out of cement is modern. The right hand, found in 1950, is exposed in a window on the stage located on the left. The sanctuary of Samothrace was dedicated to the Cabires gods, evoked to protect the sailors from the shipwreck and to ensure success the combatants. The Victoire being posed on the bridge of a boat illustrates this worship. Some suppose that the monument was offered by the winners of a naval action. The style of the Victoire, which one does not know the sculptor, makes it possible to locate the event during IIème century before Jesus-Christ. The style of work brings it closer to the planks of the furnace bridge set up with Pergame towards 180-160 before Jesus-Christ. Rhodiens will gain important victories vis-a-vis Antiochos III of Syria into 190 before Jesus-Christ, with the courses of the naval battles of Sidé and Myonnisos. The Victoire de Samothrace, who could commemorate these events, would be thus slightly posterior on this date.
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