Ephemeral head 'Young man with victor's armband', bronze version
€2,100.00
Product number:
23905872579
Product information "Ephemeral head 'Young man with victor's armband', bronze version"
Rome's vocation was to absorb the legacy of foreign civilisations and imbue it with its own essence. This epiphany head with its even features, the knotted bandage at the nape of the neck, perhaps once decorated with silver inlays, and, as the traces testify, originally gilded lips, is an almost classical example of this: not an epigonal copy of a Greek model, but the artefact of an epoch that quite consciously revered the strict Attic harmony. Original: Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich. Roman, from around the birth of Christ, based on a model from the 4th century BC.Bronze, with fine patina, cast using the lost wax technique. Height with base 33 cm.