Pygmalion is said to be a sculptor but never show interest to women for he is a man of perfection, so he carved a woman that is perfect for his eyes.
Since he was a sculptor it was quite natural that he made a statue.
A statue made of ivory, and was the most beautiful "woman" in the world, according to Pygmalion.
Pygmalion made the statue of Galatea
Galatea. She was the statue whom Aphrodite breathed life in as a reward to her sculptor Pygmalion.
Pygmalion
Pygmalion.
Aphrodite.
Pygmalion prayed to Venus to give him a wife as beautiful as his own statue that he had created.
Florence, Italy
This is a story from ancient Greece. It tells of how Pygmalion fell in love with a statue that he created when he decided that women were inferior.
Galatea is a statue in the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion sculpted Galatea and fell in love with her.
A metamorphic rock is easier to carve into a statue compared to a sedimentary rock. The most common rock that is used in sculpture is marble.
Hardly. Pygmalion was a misogynist king and sculptor, whose punishment for hating women was to fall in love with his own statue of Aphrodite.