Thor - The Mighty Thor - Norse God of Thunder - bronze sculpture

This Thor bronze sculpture was inspired by my middle son, Sean. I guess he grew tired of seeing my other sculptures; asked, " Why don't you sculpt a supper hero". I did not give him a response for a week.

After searching the internet I came across super hero models and notice that the Thor models/sculptures/figurines still depicted Thor as a comic book figure. I the thought it would be nice to give Thor lifelike features.

Hence, this is my interpretation of Thor the God of Thunder. I hope you viewers enjoy it.

History on Thor :

Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is the red-haired and bearded god of thunder in Germanic paganism and its subset Norse paganism. The god is also recorded in Old English as Þunor, Old Saxon as Thunaer, as Old Dutch and Old High German: Donar, all of which are names deriving from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic name *Þunraz.

Most surviving stories relating to Germanic paganism either mention Thor or centre on Thor's exploits. Thor was a much revered god of the ancient Germanic peoples from at least the earliest surviving written accounts of the indigenous Germanic tribes to over a thousand years later during the last bastions of Germanic paganism in the late Viking Age.

Thor was appealed to for protection on numerous objects found from various Germanic tribes and Miniature replicas of Mjolnir, the weapon of Thor, became a defiant symbol of Norse paganism during the Christianization of Scandinavia.

During and after the process of Christianization was complete, Thor was demonized by the growing influence of Christian missionaries. After Christian influence was cemented in law, traces of belief went increasingly underground into mainly rural areas, surviving until modern times into Germanic folklore and most recently reconstructed to varying degrees in Germanic Neopaganism.

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Dennis Newman: will use his body to create the thor sculpture

Dennis Newman in the early 90's... I think Thor will look awesome with this body.

Not sure if I will use this pose or the Dennis Newman pose.

Very dramatic scene, as Thor summons thunder and lighting

I do not recall what powers the hammer had, but here it looks as if it generates lighting.

This is one of four winged helmet styles that interest me for the sculpture.

Here is another helmet, but I am not sure if the wings are metal or eagle feathers.

Now this helmet appears to be very cool. I might incorporate this one with anther one that has more detail on the helmet portion.

This helmet is nice but the wings are too small. I do like the hammer.

This helmet is more of a viking style. Reminds me of the Minnesota Vikings.

The wings here appear to be an over kill; however, I do like the detail on the helmet.

Below are more images of interest

Everyone's interpretation of Thor is inspiring. My goal here will be to emulate some of the ideas used in previous concepts. If any viewer has a suggestion, please drop me an email handsofcaesar@gmail.com before I complete the sculpture.

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Thor Bronze Sculpture (God of Thunder)

Thor Bronze Sculpture
(God of Thunder)