Sculpture 'The physician of the gods Asclepius (Aesculapius)', reduction
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23905877017
Product information "Sculpture 'The physician of the gods Asclepius (Aesculapius)', reduction"
People went to him for healing when no human healer could help them: Throughout antiquity, the temple of the physician of the gods Asclepius (Asclepius) in Epidaurus was a place of pilgrimage. The large statue of the god in the temple itself, as reported by Pausanias, was lost in the turmoil of time. What remains are small statuettes like this one, with which those saved by his divine art of healing paid tribute to him. The sculptor's model shows Asclepius in a typical depiction with his viper coiled around his staff as a powerful figure characterised entirely by his will. Polymer ars mundi sculptor's model, cast by hand and partially gilded by hand. Reduction. Height 30 cm.