Calf Bearer
... The Calf Bearer is a very good example of that. ... The Calf Bearer is famous for many things one of which being the development of human insight into realism. In this essay I will discuss the Calf Bearer and other statues like itself and their representation of realism by comparing and contrasting (Gero, 16). ... The Calf Bearer shows this development in the man having one foot in front of the other. Also the unity of man and beast is illustrated in the Calf Bearer statue. The man holding the calf and the diagonals in his hands clearly portrays a great feeling between the two. The Calf Bearer is a large votive offering, the famous “Moscophoros,” made of marble that was found on the acropolis (5 ft. ... The statue represents a worshiper bringing a calf to be sacrificed to a deity. ... The details of his head and that of the calf that he carries are very intricate.