Mythology Lesson Plans
Paul Manship was attending Mechanic Arts High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, when he dropped out to pursue a career as an artist. He planned to be a painter but became a sculptor instead when he found he was color-blind. Manship was only twenty-three when he was awarded a fellowship to study art at the American Academy in Rome. It was there that he discovered the archaic and classical Greek sculpture that would influence his art for the rest of his career.
This bronze sculpture depicts the Greek myth of Diana, the Roman goddess of hunting and animals.
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Myths were an inspiration for the art of the ancient Greeks, and they played a part in their daily lives. Examples are found in their architecture, sculpture, painting, pottery, metalwork, jewelry, weaving, and embroidery.
This cup was made in the late sixth to early fifth century and depicts “The Return of Hephaestus.” The myth of Hephaestus’s triumphant return to Olympus can be traced at least as far back as Alcaeus, the early sixth-century B.C.E. Greek lyric poet. Throughout the Archaic and Classical eras, that myth was a popular theme in vase painting.
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