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From Wikipedia - The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Nike of Samothrace,[2] is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BCE. It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing, and its base in the shape of a ship's bow.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a marble Hellenistic sculpture of Nike (the Greek goddess of victory), that was created about the 2nd century BC. Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. H.W. Janson described it as "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture",and it is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies.The Winged Victory of Samothrace, discovered in 1863, is conventionally thought to have been made to celebrate a naval victory in 190 BC. However, there are objections to this dating, and alternative victories ranging from the Battle of Salamis in 306 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 BC have been proposed as the event being celebrated. Datings based on stylistic evaluation have been equally variable, ranging across the same three centuries, but perhaps tending to an earlier date.
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A masterpiece of Greek sculpture from
around 200-190 BC,
Discovered in 1863 on the Greek island of Samothrace.
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace,[2] is a 2nd-century BC marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. H.W. Janson described it as "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture." 192
The Nike of Paionios is a statue of the Greek goddess of victory, Nike.
The sculptor Paionios created this masterpiece with a sense of buoyancy, speed, and grace in 425 BC. The goddess is represented as if in descending flight, positioned upon a pedestal high above the viewer.
Nike is seen with wings in most statues and paintings, with one of the most famous being the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Famous Nike statues were commissioned and erected after significant achievements.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace diplayed at the main entrance to Ceasars Palace. This is a copy of the famous sculpture that has resided at the Louvre in Paris France since 1884.
A statue of the Greek God Nike. Housed in The Louvre in Paris. Reconstructed from pieces found in Samothrace . Thought to be celebrating a naval battle. An interesting description about the discovery and restoration can be found in Wikipedia.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship's bow.
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Adapted from the full size figure of Victory on Saint Gaudens's equestrian monument to the Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman (1892-1903;Grand Army Plaza) this winged allegorical figure is pictured as a triumphant guiding post.Her classicizing gown is emblazoned with an a eagle,and she wears a crown of Laurel and holds a palm frond traditional emblems of victory.The windblown pose recalls that of the Hellenistic marble Nike of Samothrace.The principal model for victory was Hettie Anderson,an African American woman who was a favored artists' model in New York during the 1890s.
The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. This monument was probably an ex-voto offered by the people of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval victory in the early second century BC. The theatrical stance, vigorous movement, and billowing drapery of this Hellenistic sculpture are combined with references to the Classical period-prefiguring the baroque aestheticism of the Pergamene sculptors.
A presentation mixing grandeur and theatricality
This exceptional monument was unearthed in 1863 on the small island of Samothrace in the northwest Aegean. It was discovered by Charles Champoiseau, French Vice-Consul to Adrianople (Turkey). The goddess of Victory (Nike, in Greek) is shown in the form of a winged woman standing on the prow of a ship, braced against the strong wind blowing through her garments. With her right hand cupped around her mouth, she announced the event she was dedicated to commemorate. The colossal work was placed in a rock niche that had been dug into a hill; it overlooked the theater of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. This niche may also have contained a pool filled with water in which the ship appeared to float. Given its placement, the work was meant to be viewed from the front left-hand side; this explains the disparity in sculpting technique, the right side of the body being much less detailed. The highly theatrical presentation-combined with the goddess's monumentality, wide wingspan, and the vigor of her forward-thrusting body-reinforces the reality of the scene.
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The Nike of Samothrace (ca. 190 BC)
Daru staircase in the Denon wing of the Louvre (1er)
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薩莫特拉斯的勝利女神（Winged Victory of Samothrace）又稱勝利女神之翼（Nike of Samothrake），是大約西元前190年古希臘的勝利女神大理石雕塑[1]，目前收藏在法國的羅浮宮的顯赫位置，也是世界上最著名的雕塑之一。藝術史家詹森(H.W. Janson)形容她為「希臘化時代雕塑中最偉大的藝術」。
Have you seen The Winged Nike of Samothrace?
In Greek Mythology, Nike was the Goddess of speed, strength and victory. While skiing a few weeks ago, we found the most fascinating rime on a summit after a blustery windstorm. Evelyn exclaimed the formations reminded her of The Winged Nike prominently displayed in the Louvre. What do you think of these intricate feather-like patterns?
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace,[2] is a marble Hellenistic sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory), perhaps of the 2nd-century BC. Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. H.W. Janson described it as "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture,"[1] and it is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies.
The Hall of Architecture, with its collection of over 140 plaster casts of architectural masterpieces from the past, opened in 1907. At that time, collections of casts were numerous in both Europe and the United States. Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection survives today as the largest architectural cast collection in the country, rivaled internationally only by collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and in the Musée National des Monuments Français, Paris. Pittsburgh’s architectural cast collection is distinguished for having remained essentially intact in the grand skylit space designed especially for it, Architecture Hall, which was itself inspired by one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. Having persisted through changes of taste and decades of public exhibition, the Hall of Architecture offers an opportunity to appreciate a cultural phenomenon of international scope.
Winged victory of Samothrace
(Nike of Samothrace)
Parian marble 190 bc
Louvre Museum
The Victory of Samothrace is a marble sculpture by an unknown artist of the Hellenistic era found in the temple of the "Great Gods" or Kaveri in Samothrace, it represents the goddess Nike with wings and has been exhibited in the Louvre Museum since 1884. It is one of three winged Nikes found in the temple of Samothrace.
The other two are exhibited, the first, which is a Roman copy and was found by Austrian archaeologists, in the "Kunsthistorisches Museum" in Vienna and the second, which was found by the American expedition of Karl Lehmann and Phyllis Williams-Lehmann in 1949, in the archaeological museum of Samothrace. Lehmann and his wife later (in 1950) found in excavations and parts of the right hand of the "Victory of Samothrace"
A few months later, the same pair of archaeologists also found fingers of the right hand of the same Nike in the aforementioned Austrian museum, which had them unregistered and did not know they belonged to her.
Her right palm was reconstructed revealing that she was not holding a trumpet as many had previously believed and is also on display at the Louvre in a separate display case near the statues.
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Η Νίκη της Σαμοθράκης είναι μαρμάρινο γλυπτό άγνωστου καλλιτέχνη της ελληνιστικής εποχής που βρέθηκε στο ναό των «Μεγάλων Θεών» ή Καβείρων στη Σαμοθράκη, παριστάνει φτερωτή τη θεά Νίκη και εκτίθεται στο Μουσείο του Λούβρου από το 1884. Είναι μία από τις τρεις φτερωτές Νίκες που βρέθηκαν στο ναό της Σαμοθράκης.
Οι άλλες δύο εκτίθενται η μεν πρώτη, που αποτελεί ρωμαϊκό αντίγραφο και το βρήκαν Αυστριακοί αρχαιολόγοι, στο μουσείο “Kunsthistorisches Museum” της Βιέννης και η δεύτερη, που βρέθηκε από την αμερικανική αποστολή του Karl Lehmann και της Phyllis Williams-Lehmann το 1949, στο αρχαιολογικό μουσείο της Σαμοθράκης. Ο Lehmann και η σύζυγός του βρήκαν αργότερα (το 1950) σε ανασκαφές και τμήματα του δεξιού χεριού της «Νίκης της Σαμοθράκης» .
Λίγους μήνες μετά το ίδιο ζευγάρι αρχαιολόγων εντόπισε και δάχτυλα του δεξιού χεριού της ίδιας Νίκης στο προαναφερόμενο αυστριακό μουσείο, που τα είχε ακαταχώρητα και δεν γνώριζε ότι ανήκαν σε εκείνην.
Η δεξιά παλάμη της ανασυστάθηκε αποκαλύπτοντας ότι δεν κρατούσε σάλπιγγα όπως πολλοί πίστευαν μέχρι τότε και εκτίθεται επίσης στο Λούβρο, σε χωριστή βιτρίνα κοντά στα άγαλμα
Nike And The Dove - The Victory Of Spirit Over Matter. by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)
With the music : The Light Shall Never Fade
Composer: Piotr Wójtowicz
More from celebrating Victory in the sense of purely physical competition is urgent in our times Victory Of Free Thought and the victory of spirit over matter.
Mais do que celebrar a Vitória num sentido de competição puramente física urge nos nossos tempos a Vitória Do Livre Pensamento e a vitória do espírito sobre a matéria.
Sculpture "Winged Victory of Samothrace" , also called the "Nike of Samothrace" In Wikipedia (Public Domain) :
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship's bow.
The total height of the monument is 5.57 meters (18 ft, 3 in) including the socle; the statue alone measures 2.75 meters (9 ft). The sculpture is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies. Winged Victory has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884.
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship's bow.
The total height of the monument is 5.57 meters (18 ft, 3 in) including the socle; the statue alone measures 2.75 meters (9 ft). The sculpture is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies. Winged Victory has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884.
薩莫特拉斯的勝利女神（Winged Victory of Samothrace）又稱勝利女神之翼（Nike of Samothrake），是大約西元前190年古希臘的勝利女神大理石雕塑[1]，目前收藏在法國的羅浮宮的顯赫位置，也是世界上最著名的雕塑之一。藝術史家詹森(H.W. Janson)形容她為「希臘化時代雕塑中最偉大的藝術」。
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Columbia, Missouri
The Victory of Samothrace, also known as Nike of Samothrace, is a sculpture belonging to the Rhodian school of the Hellenistic period. It is located in the Louvre Museum, Paris. It represents Nike, the goddess of victory. Source: Wikipedia.
The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea. It is a masterpiece of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic era, dating from the beginning of the 2nd century BC (190 BC). It is composed of a statue representing the goddess Niké (Victory), whose head and arms are missing and its base is in the shape of a ship's bow.
The total height of the monument is 5.57 metres including the socle; the statue alone measures 2.75 metres. The sculpture is one of a small number of major Hellenistic statues surviving in the original, rather than Roman copies.
Winged Victory has been exhibited at the Louvre in Paris, at the top of the main staircase, since 1884. Greece is seeking the return of the sculpture.
In 1863, Charles Champoiseau (1830–1909), acting chief of the Consulate of France in Adrianopolis (now Edirne in Turkey), undertook from March 6 to May 7 the exploration of the ruins of the sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. On April 13, 1863, he discovered part of the bust and the body of a large female statue in white marble accompanied by numerous fragments of drapery and feathers. He recognised this as the goddess Niké, Victory, traditionally represented in Greek antiquity as a winged woman. In the same place was a jumble of about fifteen large grey marble blocks whose form or function was unclear: he concluded it was a funerary monument. He decided to send the statue and fragments to the Louvre Museum, and to leave the large blocks of grey marble on site. Departing Samothrace at the beginning of May 1863, the statue arrived in Toulon at the end of August and in Paris on May 11, 1864.
A first restoration was undertaken by Adrien Prévost de Longpérier, then curator of Antiquities at the Louvre, between 1864 and 1866. The main part of the body is erected on a stone base, and largely completed by fragments of drapery, including the fold of himation that flares behind the legs on the Nike. The remaining fragments – the right part of the bust and a large part of the left wing – too incomplete to be placed on the statue, are stored. Given the exceptional quality of the sculpture, Longpérier decided to present the body alone, exhibited until 1880 among the Roman statues first in the Caryatid Room, then briefly in the Tiber Room.
From 1875, Austrian archaeologists who, under the direction of Alexander Conze, had been excavating the buildings of the Samothrace sanctuary since 1870, studied the location where Champoiseau had found the Victory. Architect Aloïs Hauser drew the grey marble blocks left on-site and apprehended that, once properly assembled, they form the tapered bow of a warship, and that, placed on a base of slabs, they served as the basis for the statue. Tetradrachmas of Demetrios Poliorcetes struck between 301 and 292 BC. representing a Victory on the bow of a ship, wings outstretched, give a good idea of this type of monument. For his part, the specialist in ancient sculpture Otto Benndorf is responsible for studying the body of the statue and the fragments kept in reserve at the Louvre, and restored the statue blowing into a trumpet that she raises with her right arm, as on the coin. The two men thus managed to make a model of the Samothrace monument as a whole.
Champoiseau, informed of this research, undertook a second mission to Samothrace from August 15 to 29, 1879, for the sole purpose of sending the blocks of the base and the slabs of the Victory base to the Louvre. He abandoned on the island the largest block of the base, unsculpted. Two months later, the blocks reached the Louvre Museum, where in December an assembly test was carried out in a courtyard.
The curator of the Department of Antiquities, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, then decided to reconstruct the monument, in accordance with the model of Austrian archaeologists. On the body of the statue, between 1880 and 1883 he restored the belt area in plaster, placed the right part of the marble bust, recreated the left part in plaster, attached the left marble wing with a metal frame, and replaced the entire right wing with a plaster model. But he did not reconstruct the head, arms or feet. The ship-shaped base is rebuilt and completed, except for the broken bow of the keel, and there is still a large void at the top aft. The statue was placed directly on the base. The entire monument was then placed from the front, on the upper landing of the Daru staircase, the main staircase of the museum.
Champoiseau returned to Samothrace a third time in 1891 to try to obtain the Victory's head, but without success. He did however bring back debris from the drapery and base, a small fragment with an inscription and fragments of coloured plaster.
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Nike And Icarus - Winged Freedom by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a marble Hellenistic sculpture of Nike (the Greek goddess of victory), that was created in about the 2nd century BC. Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world and considered by some "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture".
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For this week we propose the use of this iconic sculpture in the creation of creative images that are inspiring and artistic, leaving the freedom of creation to our creative members and artists of this group.
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Creative Background using my photos taken to the Caixa Geral de Depósitos' headquarters building in Lisbon Constructed between 1981 and 1993 whose project leader was the architect Arsénio Raposo Cordeiro.
Sculptures used in this work :
* Winged Nike of Samothrace - ca. 190 BC :
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* Ikarus Bronze Art Deco 1920 Otto Schmidt-Hoffer (1873-1945)
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National Museum, Oslo – Cast Hall
Visitors to the new National Museum in Oslo may be surprised—and perhaps moved—to find a dedicated hall of plaster casts among the sleek, modern galleries. The presence of these replicas pays homage to a formative chapter in art education and museum history: a time before commercial travel, digital media, and visual saturation, when even well-educated Europeans could rarely, if ever, encounter the originals of world art.
In 1904, when painter Ivar Lund depicted the Interior of the National Gallery, cast halls served both pedagogical and cultural missions. They democratized access to Greco-Roman antiquity and Renaissance masterworks, offering a surrogate form of aesthetic communion. These casts were not dismissed as mere imitations; rather, they were prized as tools of knowledge—objects to be studied, copied, and internalized.
Importantly, many casts were made using molds taken directly from the originals. Classical sculptures in major European collections—such as the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, and the British Museum—were at times permitted to serve as sources for plaster molds, particularly in the 19th century. If viewers knew or believed that a cast had been taken from such a mold, that knowledge was often sufficient to establish the object’s authenticity in their eyes. Few would have fixated on the missing aura of the original.
Even today, in an era obsessed with provenance, attribution, and originality, the authenticity of so-called “originals” is far from guaranteed. In the murky world of dealers, restorers, and curators, forgeries and misattributions remain a known hazard. A museum label, even in the British Museum or the Met, is not a metaphysical guarantee of truth. What casts offer—paradoxically—is clarity: a frank acknowledgment of derivation and replication that frees the viewer to engage directly with the sculpture’s visual and formal language.
As Jeannine’s pencil drawing of the Nike of Samothrace (a cast of the Louvre original) reminds us, to draw is still to see. The museum provides paper and pencils and invites the public to try their hand at sketching under the motto "to draw is to see." The replication of the ancient masterpiece, no less than the act of sketching it, forms a bridge between observer and observed. It demands attention, patience, and fidelity—not to provenance, but to form.
The very presence of casts in a 21st-century museum affirms a deeper philosophy: that art’s value lies not only in originality but in transmission. That touchstones of cultural memory must remain physically accessible, even in duplicate. That learning still begins with looking—long and hard—and that beauty survives translation.
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Side by side comparison of my LEGO build and the real sculpture of the Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace. The building instruction is available on Rebrickable!
The placement of the Winged Victory of Samothrace by the Louvre is impressive. The statues in the first corridor seem almost to act as the royal court of this Greek goddess of victory.
The imposing steps, similar to making the approach for a royal audience drives home the fact that at the top of the stairs is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. And once you get there it is obvious that the whole grand staircase was designed to celebrate this one central masterpiece.
This statue that was created somewhere between 200 and 190 BC is one of a very small number of major Hellenistic statues that has survived. The other name of Winged Victory of Samothrace, one that seems a bit more familiar in the present day, her other name is Nike of Samothrace.