Artwork analysis, large resolution images, user comments, interesting facts and much more. You can view other depictions of Milo of Croton in the Web Gallery of Art. Milo of Croton is one of artworks by tienne Maurice Falconet. Milo or Milon of Croton (late 6th century BC) was a famous ancient Greek athlete. After a moment of doubt it was approved by the King and given a prominent position in the gardens at Versailles. Croton won six times at the Olympic Games (in wrestling competitions. Between 16 he was active in Marseille and Toulon chiefly as a painter, but he also carved. He possessed such outstanding physical abilities that he was said to only be second to Hercules. Puget traveled in Italy as a young man (164043), when he was employed by a muralist, Pietro da Cortona, to work on the ceiling decorations of the Barberini Palace in Rome and the Pitti Palace in Florence. He lived in the 7th century BC and is mentioned in the works by Herodotus, Pindar, Plutarch, Ovid. The Milo was taken to Versailles by Puget's son, François, and arrived there in 1683. Milo of Croton was a legendary Greek athlete from the Italian city of Croton. The head and the mask are based on the Laocoon and have the degree of restraint apparent even in that most Baroque of ancient groups. But the movement is so carefully controlled that, seen from the front as it is meant to be seen, the whole statue forms a simple silhouette composed of two sets of parallel axes: the legs and left arm forming one set, and the torso, drapery, and tree trunk forming the other. Johns latest achievement, however, Wolves of Croton - The Untold Story of Milo, is a dual-volume, twenty-book manuscript that takes readers on an epic journey into the life of the most. The aging Milo wants to show his strength by pulling a split tree. The statue is Baroque in its violence of movement, in the sharp twist of the arm and head, in the naturalism of the tree trunk, which indicates that the artist must have known Bernini's Apollo and Daphne. The story of the ancient Greek athlete Milo of Croton is an allegory of pride and vanity. In the Milo Puget invented a truly French Baroque. It has the qualities of emotional intensity which were already apparent in the door of the Hôtel de Ville at Toulon and the St Sebastian, but in addition it has a concentration and a geometrical regularity which are almost classical.
The Milo is perhaps Puget's most remarkable work. Sculptor for the King’s Arsenal1620-1694. From them he carved the Milo of Crotona and the relief of Alexander and Diogenes. In 1670 Puget found in the dockyards at Toulon two blocks of marble which had been abandoned there, and after some difficulty he got Colbert's permission to use them for statues.
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