Olympia, Metope 8: Horse (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 eighth metope…illustrates the taming of the horses of Diomedes of Thrace....[T]he number of characters has been reduced to Herakles and a single horse. The compositional scheme is similar to that of the Cretan Bull Metope, with the hero and the animal forming an X....The image depicts only the essense of the deed, i.e. the taming of the horses. It makes no reference to Diomedes himself, to the chariot to which Herakles harnessed them to drive home or to the man-eating quality of the horses prior to their taming.” More information: https://goo.gl/XWSDVi Tools: Cinema 4D, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop