Relief sculpture depicting Herakles Captures the Cretan Bull. Temple of Zeus metope. Circa 460 BCE.

The 7th metope from the west facade of the temple of Zeus depicts Heracles arresting the Cretan Bull.
It is a striking composition with dominant diagonal lines that bestow a wild sense of action to the scene.
This photo depicts the sculpture from an angle below, closer to the way they were meant to be seen by viewers as they looked up at the temple's metopes high above the epistyle.
Exhibited in Archaeological Museum of Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece.

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Animals Art Classical Heracles Metopes Mythology Olympia Olympia Museum Original Photo Peloponnese Relief Sculpture