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2. Ganymede waters Zeus as an eagle by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1817 Thorvaldsen Museum

3. Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish, 1770-1844) Ganymede waters Zeus as an eagle, 1817 Thorvaldsen Museum

4. Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish, 1770-1844) Ganymede waters Zeus as an eagle, 1817 Thorvaldsen Museum The ancient tale tells how Ganymede, son of King Tros (who gave Troy its name), was the most beautiful of all youths. Ganymede is chosen by the gods as Zeus' cupbearer 

5. Ganymede waters Zeus as an eagle by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1817 Thorvaldsen Museum

6. Ganymede The State Hermitage Museum, Roman work, late 1st C AD Ganymede, a shepherd and son of Tros, a legendary king of Troy. His outstanding beauty caused Jupiter to fall in love with him and the god, as an eagle, carried the youth off to Olympus and made him his cup-bearer

7. Ganymede and the Eagle, by Adamo Tadolini, 1823, marble - Sculpture Gallery, Chatsworth House

8. Ganymede and the Eagle, by Adamo Tadolini, 1823 Chatsworth House - Derbyshire, England

9. Ganymede and the Eagle, by Adamo Tadolini, 1823, Marble Sculpture Gallery, Chatsworth House

10. Battista Lorenzi (1527-1594) Fontana di Ganimede, Giardini di Bòboli (Firenze)

11. Battista Lorenzi (1527-1594) Fontana di Ganimede, Giardini di Bòboli (Firenze)

12. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) Ganymede Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

13. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) Ganymede, 1545-47 Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

14. Ganymede with the Eagle of Zeus, Roman 2nd c. AD, King's Library, British Museum, London Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

15. Turkey, Work by Giambologna, 1567 Bronze eagle. Work by Giambologna, 1567 Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence (once in the fountain of water games of the Medici villa of Castello)

16. Giambologna’s series of sculpted life-size bronzes of birds, that were originally commissioned and used to decorate garden grottoes and fountains in the Boboli Gardens of Florence and at Pratolino, and the bronze doors of the cathedral of Pisa

18. For these birds sculptures Giambologna even invented a special "impressionistic" technique in wax to recreate the texture and image of their plumage. This was then carefully and faithfully translated by skillful casting into the final bronze versions

20. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

21. Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

22. Acquamanile bronzeo - Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence Acquamanile bronzeo - Pinacoteca Nazionale di Cagliari

23. Charles Gouyn factory - White porcelain group of Ganymede and the eagle circa 1749-60 sold 56,250$

24. Ganymed by Hermann Hubacher at Bürkliplatz in Zürich (Switzerland)

25. Vatican peacock - part of the original decoration of Hadrian's Mausoleum

26. Gilded bronze peacock, part of the original decoration of Hadrian's Mausoleum, Vatican Museums

27. Vatican Museums

28. Vatican Museums

29. Vatican Museums

30. Bronze, signed Hamish Mackie Bird in flight by Martin Williams (Stone)

31. Fernando Botero  (Colombia, 1932) Bird of Peace (Paloma de la PAZ) National Museum Bogota

32. Alfred Jacquemart (1824–1896) Ornament crowning the south carriage entrance of the Emperor's Pavilion on the west side of the Palais Garnier Paris

33. Eagle sculpture on column outside Paris Opera

34. Eagle sculpture on column outside Paris Opera (Palais Garnier)

35. Helen Boehm and E. M. Boehm Studios The Bird of Peace, a porcelain statue of mute swans gifted by Richard Nixon to The People's Republic of China during his 1972 diplomatic visit to the country

36. The ''Birds of Peace'' sculpture one of three copies made from master molds that were destroyed in 1974. Vatican museum

37. The intricate and detailed sculpture of the pair of mute swans took two years to create, and 10 tons of plaster were used to make the master molds. Some 60,000 sculpted lines make up the feathers of the swans. Mrs. Boehm stated that the mute swans represent ''serenity and purity, a bird that had been associated with peace throughout history and in mythology.'' She further noted, ''The mute swan's range is worldwide; it came to the shores of America during the 19th century. Perhaps its most important characteristic is that it speaks with a soft voice.'‘ Of the three pairs of porcelain mute swan sculptures, one set remained at the White House, one set was given to Mao Tse-Tung during Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China, and one set was auctioned by Sotheby's of London to benefit the World Wildlife Fund. The swans were purchased by an anonymous donor for $150,000 -- the highest price ever paid for a 20th-century porcelain sculpture. The sculpture was subsequently presented to Pope Paul VI by the Archdiocese of New York

38. Tokyo's Aoto Heiwa Park

39. Maiden of Peace a mable sculpture from the People's Republic of China at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki in Japan

41. Maiden of Peace a mable sculpture from the People's Republic of China at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, Japan

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