Image:Statue of Zeus.jpg

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This is a 17th-century engraving, with the inscription to right of the image "OLYMPE IOVIS SIMULACRUM" Possibly the engraving made by Philips Galle in 1572, from a drawing made by Maarten van Heemskerck.

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Artistic representation of the Statue of Zeus in Olympia, actually quite inexact: according to Pausanias (V, 11, 1f), Zeus carried a statuette of Victory in his right hand and a sceptre with a bird sitting on it in the left hand.Four victories stood at each foot of the throne and two at the base of each foot.
Source

Please, put da source here
Date

around 16th century
Author

Maarten van Heemskerck
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