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HEIGHT: 20.5cm / 8 inches
WEIGHT: 400gr / 0.88lb
MANUFACTURER: Veronese
COLOR: Brown
MATERIAL: Cold cast bronze & resin
CULTURE: Greek
STYLE NAME: Ancient Art
TYPE: Statue / Sculpture
HANDMADE Very Detailed and High Quality
Hand-painted and signed with the Veronese brand
GIFT BOXED
PROFESSIONAL PACKAGING
*Actual Product dimensions, weight and color available may differ from those shown as this is handmade.
*Solid
cold cast bronze resin allows for greater detail and a nice weight. All
Veronese figurines are nicely boxed, have exceptional detail and make
excellent gifts.
Atlas was one of the Titans, son of Iapetus and Clymene, and brother of
Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius. During the Titanomachy, the War
between the Titans and the Olympian gods, Atlas and his brother
Menoetius sided with the Titans, while Prometheus and Epimetheus helped
the Olympian gods. Atlas was the leader in the batttle; however, being
on the losing side, Zeus condemned him to eternally stand on the western
side of Gaea (the earth) holding Uranus (the sky) on his shoulders.
Therefore, the contemporary depiction of Atlas holding the Earth on his
shoulders is a misconception.
He was the Titan god of astronomy and
navigation and he was married to his sister, Phoebe. He had numerous
children, including the Hesperides, the Hyades, Hyas, the Pleiades,
Calypso, Dione and Maera. He was associated with the Atlas mountains in
northwest Africa. According to a later myth, when Perseus went to that
region, a giant named Atlas tried to drive him away. So, Perseus
revealed Medusa's head, whom he had already killed, thus turning Atlas
into stone (the Atlas mountains themselves).
In the myth of the
Twelve Labours of Heracles, the demigod was sent to bring the golden
apples from Hera's garden, tended by the Hesperides and guarded by the
dragon Ladon. Heracles asked Atlas to bring the apples to him; during
that time, he would replace him in holding up the sky. Atlas went and
brought the apples to Heracles; he then attempted to trick him into
holding the skies forever. However, Heracles managed to evade the trick
and left with the apples.