René Michel Slodtz (Michel-Ange Slodtz) - Chrysès - Manufacture de Sèvres Chryses praying to Apollo Musée du Louvre Bustie or Bust Greek sculpture reached its peak for quality and quantity around the mid 5th century BC. This was the era when the Athenians were completing the Parthenon, which featured a lot of elaborately carved sculptures as temple decorations and Myron was also completing his famous sculpture, ‘The Discus Thrower’. The essential characteristic of classical Greek art and its sculptures were mostly of a heroic realism. They always attempted to reveal the human body, in movement or repose,