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# Ancient Statues Pose for Selfies
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/ancient-statues-pose-for-selfies/
- Published: 2014-08-12T23:10:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:07.000Z
- Description: It’s one thing to take a #museumselfie with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make Greco-Roman statues look like they were chiseled specifically for selfie-shooting moments.
- Author: Alicia Eler
- Tags: Opinion, Selfies, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

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Selfie-ification of Agesandros and Poloydoros Athendoros, “Laocoon and his Sons” (c.1816), plaster, 240 x 141 x 83cm (image via Imgur)

It’s one thing to take a [#museumselfie](http://museumselfies.tumblr.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make Greco-Roman statues look like they were chiseled specifically for selfie-shooting moments.

That’s what Reddit user [Jazsus\_ur\_lookin\_well](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2chtx4/statue%5Fselfies/?ref=hyperallergic.com) has done, finding a way to make it look like four ancient statues found at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, Ireland, are taking their own selfies (kind of like [these cats](http://www.sadanduseless.com/2014/01/cats-taking-selfies/?ref=hyperallergic.com)). One of the sculptures is [“The Fighting Gladiator”](http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/pages/Sculpture/GrecoFightingGladiator.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (c. 1816), a plaster cast made from a Roman copy of a figure poised for action; the Redditor decided to rename it with the suggestive title, [“I want you to chisel over me \[NSFW\]](http://imgur.com/r/StatueSelfies/PDoOkwE?ref=hyperallergic.com).”

Cruise through the images, admiring the passionate, often times anguished looks on the faces of these sculptures. The selfie shots humanize the artworks, reminding us that they were based on real people; they also make it easy to ignore the histories behind the sculptures in favor of this novel, gotcha moment. Then again, the selfie is now as much a part of the art as the actual history.

Thankfully, the prankster in Ireland was careful not break anything when he took his selfies, unlike [some other people](https://hyperallergic.com/man-breaks-statue-in-quest-for-selfie/) …

![Image via imgur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/08/to04pov.jpg)

Selfie-ification of Hamo Thornycroft, “Teucer,” plaster copy, 195 x 105 x 58 cm (image via Imgur)

![Image via imgur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/08/c4gpnii.jpg)

Selfie-ification of Italian School, “Belvedere Apollo,” plaster cast, 243 x 120 x 78 cm (image via Imgur)

![Image via imgur](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/08/pdookwe.jpg)

“The Fighting Gladiator” (c. 1816) becomes a selfie entitled “I want you to chisel over me \[NSFW\].” (image via Imgur)

*via* [*Reddit*](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2chtx4/statue%5Fselfies/?ref=hyperallergic.com)