Praxiteles: Head of the Ephebe of Marathon, artistic bronze, sculpture
€790.00
Product number:
23905872571
Product information "Praxiteles: Head of the Ephebe of Marathon, artistic bronze, sculpture"
With the triumvirate of Skopas, Praxiteles and Lysipp, the 'beautiful style' of late classical Greece was born. Praxiteles avoided anything heroic or titanic in his sculptures; even his virtuosically chiselled gods appear in an amiable, human form. His famous originals, such as the 'Aphrodite of Knidos', the 'Hermes of Olympia', the 'Lizard Catcher' and the 'Pouring Satyr' have been irretrievably lost, but Roman replicas still bear witness to them. Then, however, a unique find shook the art world: Greek fishermen near Marathon recovered a statue of a youth of unrivalled beauty, which can be attributed almost beyond doubt to Praxiteles. It is probably Hermes himself who is delighting posterity here and drawing us into the happy tranquillity of his Elysian existence. Original: National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Praxiteles, Attic, c. 330 B.C. Artistic bronze. Height with marble base 36 cm.
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