A flint stone may have inspired a sculpture named for this action in a reflecting pool at Lincoln Center. One of the “talking statues” of Rome that depicts a river god doing this action is nicknamed Marforio. The collapse of a chamber’s roof at Bhamala damaged a sculpture of the Buddha performing this physical action that commonly represents parinirvāṇa. A sculpture in the Galleria Borghese performing this action could be rotated by crank and holds an (*) apple. Mesoamerican chacmool statues performing this action inspired over 20 abstract statues by Henry Moore. In an Antonio Canova sculpture, Pauline Bonaparte performs this action as Venus Victrix. A Black servant holds a flower bouquet in a painting of Victorine Meurent doing this action. For 10 points, Edouard Manet’s Olympia is part of a genre of nudes doing what recumbent pose? ■END■
ANSWER: reclining [accept equivalents such as laying down; accept Reclining Figure; accept recumbent until read; prompt on resting; prompt on sleeping or dying by asking “what physical action is the figure doing?”]
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