Hot Statues

Three Smiths

Spain

Those Italians, always wrestling

No... don't turn around

Frogner Park, Gustav Vigeland sculpture, Oslo Norway.

Greek satyr. He seems to have his hands full.

Hercules. I used to masturbate to this in my teens.

Is your figure less than Greek?

Stadio Marmi; the circuit party of the Mussolini era:

Damn, that is a nicely muscled group of hard marble youth.

We really have not done anything better than the Greeks and the Romans when it comes to sculpture of the human body. The Spanish and three Smiths sculptures are oddly slack, with no tension. But the fascist Uber human styles of Nazi and Soviet brutalist art have their appeal.

I love the art deco and industrial bronze statues that were done around that period - the Soviet ones and the ones in New York especially.

Greeks could produce the male form so well because they really loved it. It's a talent, and a passion, not cultivated in the times of hetero-Christian primacy.

"not cultivated in the times of hetero-Christian primacy."

Exactly; early Christians were rabidly crazy and responsible for the destruction of many pre-Christian statues and other art. They were the ISIS of their era.

The Greeks did have that thing where the aristocrats would engage in pederasty as a means of socializing (or was that Romans?)

r14 I wish I had a time machine to go back and save all the statues and art from being destroyed by Christians (and elsewhere, by Muslims).

r14 Really dope book about time period

r15 All classes practiced homosexuality - there are literary works portraying homosexuality among men from poor strata such as Greek pastors and Roman gladiators - and it was not limited to man-teen love. You can find plenty of examples of passion between two adult men in biographies and literature from the period, and there's also the Sacred Theban Band, which was an army made up entirely of couples of adult men.

* Greek shepherds

r18 I'm specifically referring to what the aristocrats did as a means of socializing. I think the Greeks did it and the Romans did as well.

r20 In certain Greek cities, such as Athens and Sparta, it was common for a youth to be romantically linked with an older man and be "sponsored" by him in the course of the relationship. Among Athenians, this was indeed an aristocratic practice. Among Spartans, it was part of military education.

If you can tear your eyes off that marvelous ass in R4 just look at how the drape of the cloth and his hair are rendered.

R21. And in Mykonos, it was the sea, the sunshine and hot summer nights.

Zeus almighty!

R9, that looks like the bar lineup at Boots and Saddles.

"Hercules. I used to masturbate to this in my teens."

Must have been awkward for the other people in the Vatican Museum.

Well, the tourists anyway.

r26 Book cover.

The Farnese "Hercules" has its own peculiar charms. If someone would be so kind as to post a photo, I'd certainly appreciate it.

Hitler's favorite: the massive, munchy, muscled men of Arno Breker!

Farnese Hercules

And a sexy engraving of the back of the statue

Arno Breker did have some amazing works!

Another Breker

Another Breker

The Bernini David is a lot hotter than Michaelangelo's version.

Love it when Hercules grabs me by the hair and fucks my face.

R34 = IDIOT

Arno Breker was a NAZI and the statue you linked to is a famous SOVIET statue.

It’s “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” By Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina.

“You remind me of one of those old statues--one of those Roman gladiators. All they had on was a shield!”

Moses by Michelangelo Buenarotti

Another detail from Michelangelos Moses

The strange twins in OP's photo look like they were modeled on Woody Harrelson! Even down to the haircut.

No one can outdo the Ancient Greeks in this category. They're the trend-setters re: male hotness. Everyone else is just paying homage to their style.

What I call the "Hey, sailor!" statue of Thomas Jefferson always amused me, though it is not hot.

Hercules and Diomedes

The Vigeland sculpture park in Oslo (R5) is nearly worth a trip there just to see it. I was there in the summer, but I'd love to see the sculptures in the winter covered in snow. And then find a hot, blond Norwegian to warm me up afterward.

r37 calm your tits, Mary, it was what Google image search said and the image filename has his name in it as well. I'm not really concerned about him being a Nazi as I'm sure he's long dead by now, the statues are hot, regardless.

The Greek statues are vastly superior to anything else. The Nazi soviet or whatever ones are puny in their cheap sentimentality.

R4's link is to the Louvre portrait of Marcellus, Augustus' heir until he died at 18. Manibus date lilia plenis ....

This is the side of the statue:

And the front!

The Barberini Faun

Bourdelle's Herakles Archer. He made many of them. When I saw this one in a Paris museum, I waited for people to leave with no guards, and copped a feel of his dick and balls!

r52 that's a great statue - I love the action pose. Apparently he's hunting pterodacyl?

Love that side view, R49. I hadn't realized how athletic and muscular the body is—I believe it's (based on) a Hermes, by or adapted by one Cleomenes of Athens.

Here's another Antinous (as pharaoh).

And here's a side view showing how clingy Hadrian likes Antinous' little pharaoh costume to be.

When I was in some museum in Rome I came upon a gigantic statue of a nude man in one of the rooms and since there were no cameras in that room and no other people in sight I couldn't resist touching his schlong (the statue was so big I could barely reach it). Feeling a huge 2000-year old uncut stone penis in my hand was a pretty surreal experience.

This is an amazing thread. I've photographed a number of statues on my travels to Europe... always feeling a bit of the perv, knowing it was for the cock and ass...

Cock and ass! Two wonders of Nature.

[quote]I couldn't resist touching his schlong (the statue was so big I could barely reach it). Feeling a huge 2000-year old uncut stone penis in my hand was a pretty surreal experience.

Inanimate or not....it's difficult to resist a hard cock.

There's always the secret hope that it will come to life and thank you, such as in Mannequin.

Why is this grayed out? Jeez, you can’t have anymore fun on here with these uptight fuckers.

It's greyed out? It's impossible to figure out what WON'T get F&Fed on this board sometimes. W&W it to offset that!

Many old sculptures have breasts and genitals fondled smooth and darkened over the centuries. You pervs. That's why we can't have nice statues.

I wonder how many genitals were chiseled off, actually. I know a lot of older artwork, nudes etc. were destroyed when the Christian (and Islamic) prudes came to power.

Something for everyone

r65 men, women, and snakeophiles!

This is a good thread.

R9's Stadio Marmi wins -- at least for being the gayest display.

I saw these two statues while visiting Prague. I found it vulgar, but fascinating. Here's an explanation. I didn't try to find a video...

And for closer inspection, one of the men from the Peeing Statues in Prague.

R70 Odd placement of hand. Who pees like that

Maybe left handed guys do, R70.

[quote] The bronze Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a Hellenistic Greek sculpture of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his caestus, a type of leather hand-wrap. It has been given various dates within the period of about 330 to 50 BCE. It was excavated in Rome in 1885, and is now in the collection of the National Museum of Rome, normally displayed in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

[quote]The Boxer at Rest is one of the finest examples of bronze sculptures to have survived from the ancient world; survivals from the period are rare, as they were easily melted down and transformed into new objects. The work comes from a period in Greek art where there is a movement away from idealised heroic depictions of the body and youth, and an exploration of emotional themes and greater realism.

Lord how the Greeks understood the human body and how it rests upon itself when seated. I'd love to see that Boxer at rest in real life and give it a 360 walk around.

To [R34]: this statue is not by Breker, but by female Russian sculptor, created for summit of Soviet pavilion at Paris Exposition of 1937.

Breker’s statues are hot, but, sadly, many of them were destroyed by Allied occupying troops after the war. Breker himself attempted to salvage as many as he could, but, as an unrepentant Nazi, his artistic legacy has never been encouraged.

Boxer At Rest came to NYC at the Met Museum back in 2013 for 6 weeks. I didn’t find out until well after it was gone and was really disappointed as I would have loved to see it as you described R74. I know it’s a weak substitute, but lots of people documented it like crazy with photos from every angle. Here’s a sort of interesting piece by Jerry Saltz.

And, by the way, if you like those two Deco statues from the Helsinki railway station, check out very similar ones, also holding light fixtures, at the entrance to the old Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York, now the home of some Christian sect.

Thanks R76, the text for the 6 parts of the statue are well-written. Mutilated penis is definitely strange (as a practice in a culture) and the description of the hands is beautiful.

This count?

Jerry Saltz posted something about Laocoön statue a few days after it was posted here (r65). Is Jerry a Datalounger?

r80 entirely probable!

Bump

r42 Shouldn't that statue be Roman rather than Greek?

True, R83, I considered writing "Ancient Greeks AND Romans". But then the Romans openly confessed to copying the Greek style. They did so proudly b/c they were so in awe of it. They even took Greek mythology directly as their religion.

But, yes, statues of Antinous are not directly tied to Greece. I should have used a different (Greek) example, but I love busts of Antinous so much!

(Thought no one would notice my sneakiness, but DLers are too erudite. Good catch)

^Oh, and that one is The Diadumenos ("diadem-bearer") by Greek sculptor Polyclitus.

[quote] The Diadumenos is the winner of an athletic contest at the Greek games, still nude after the contest and lifting his arms to knot the diadem, a ribbon-band that identifies the winner.

bronze bump

Statue of male nude in Barakaldo, Biscay, Spain. Yes, daddy.

Hot resurrection bump! Since I'm seeing several art posts lately.

Meleager statue in the Vatican