His easel-size illustrations of scenes from Revelation, teeming with muscular, cartoonish figures of God, Jesus, angels, demons, mythic monsters and souls of the damned, have generous, slightly crusty surfaces and a frosty light that gives them a slightly eerie, visionary quality.
Colossal marble figures of gods, fragmentary but overwhelmingly powerful, convey the titanic authority of Greek myth.
Small figures of gods, originally placed on the prows of canoes, were depicted in a deep squatting stance.
The conventions of Kona-style bodies occur in some earlier figures, including smaller figures of gods mounted on props, apparently personally owned by chiefs.
Monumental stone figures of gods, in a style that persisted into the 19th century, were being carved and installed on marae in the Marquesas about 1500.
Thus, Copán architecture is embellished with gloriously baroque figures of gods, and its stelae and other monuments are carved with an extraordinary virtuosity.
Its crisply carved border reliefs, described in the 17th century as depicting "loathsome devilish images," twine together figures of gods and mortals to suggest the interdependent forces that animate a morally balanced universe.
On the edge of the villages, ayanars, those protective terra cotta divinities sometimes in the shape of a horse, sometimes in that of a man, add another touch of local color -- as do the passing trucks painted in bright yellows and oranges, adorned with figures of gods and goddesses.
Even in the libertine 18th Century one gentleman complained that "the figures of Gods and Goddesses are shown in such obscene Postures, that it would puzzle the Covent Garden nymphs to imitate them".
There were also figures of gods, often in sphinx form, that served as symbolic guardians of the temple.
The original baths, which were founded and built by Septimius Severus, and decorated under Constantine I were adorned with numerous mosaics and over eighty statues, mostly those of historical figures, with Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Demosthenes, Aeschines and Virgil all among them, as well as the figures of gods and mythological heroes;.
