Winning bronze: sculpture at the Royal Academy – in pictures

Athlete, Roman copy of Hellenistic original, school of Lysippos, from Herculaneum. Photograph: www.scalarchives.com Chimera of Arezzo, Etruscan, c. 400 BCE Bronze Photograph: Antonio Quattrone/Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana Head with Crown, 14th to early 15th century Photograph: Scala, Florence Adriaen de Vries, Vulcan's Forge, 1611 Photograph: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Walter Haberland Louise Bourgeois, Spider IV, 1996 Photograph: Peter Bellamy/courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Cheim & Read Barthelemy Prieur, Acrobat, c. 1600 Photograph: Jorg P Anders/bpk / Skulpturensammlung und Museen zu Berlin Jasper Johns. Painted Bronze Ale Cans Photograph: DACS The Buddha Shakyamuni in Abhaya-mudra, probably Bihar, Gupta Period, India, 6th century Photograph: Courtesy of Asia Society, New York Giovanfrancesco Rustici. The Pharisee, St John the Baptist and The Levite from The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist, 1511 Photograph: Antonio Quattrone/Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore