Olympia, Metope 7: Boar (2.5D)

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This polychromed metope once decorated the east porch of the Temple of Zeus in Olympia (c. 460 BCE); the remains are in the Olympia Archaeological Museum and the Louvre. It is part of a series depicting the twelve labors of Heracles. The original metope was sculpted in high relief; the color scheme is based on research and aesthetic judgment. “The seventh labor…depicts Herakles intimidating King Eurystheus by holding the boar, which he has just captured in the Erymanthean mountains, over his head. Eurystheus has jumped into a pithos in order to hide....The Olympia metope exhibits its Early Classical character in the emphasis of simple geometric forms: the horizontal boar, the vertical tree on the left, the strong diagonal of Herakles’ body cutting across the square.” More information: https://goo.gl/YQHGk5 Tools: Cinema 4D, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop