Meleager. Rome, s. I-II AD. Marble sculpture
Meleager. Rome, 1st-2nd c. AD.
Marble sculpture.
Provenance: Private collection D. G., Paris. Private collection Mr. S. D., acquired from the gallery of Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres, Paris, acquired in the 1990s.
Bibliography: Hukinson, Janet. Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi. Oxford. 2015.- Koch, G. Die mythologischen Sarkophage, Pt. 6: Meleage. 1975. NANCY, Lady Bagot. Blithfield Hall, A Country House Saved. 2011.
Good general condition. It presents lines of breakage in the abdomen area, and in three points of the leg.
Measurements: 41 cm. high.
Round sculpture sculpted in marble of a male figure next to a dog. He is identified with the Greek hero Meleager. The sculptural ensemble is inspired by a Greek original attributed to Scopas, dated to the 4th century BC, which is kept in the Museo Pio-Clementino in Rome. Scopas (ca. 380-330 BC), together with Lysippus and Praxiteles, form the three great sculptors representative of the second phase of classicism. The nude anatomy presents the classical canons of ideal beauty. Adopting a contrapposto pose, she rests her hips against a tree trunk, beneath which a dog gazes at its master. Only a short cloth covers her chest, a chlamys or woollen garment worn by Greek ephebes between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC. He is wearing a fibula, or a restraint, on his right shoulder. He was probably armed with a spear or bow, emulating the image of a victorious hunter. The entire scene rests on an architectural base composed of an architrave. It must have been part of an important sarcophagus. Meleager was the son of the king of Calidon, named Aeneus, and Altea, a legendary hunter and powerful warrior. When he was only days old, the Moirae visited him and told his mother that the little boy would die only when the firewood burning in the hearth was consumed. His legend is recorded by Homer.
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Meleager. Rome, 1st-2nd c. AD.
Marble sculpture.
Provenance: Private collection D. G., Paris. Private collection Mr. S. D., acquired from the gallery of Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres, Paris, acquired in the 1990s.
Bibliography: Hukinson, Janet. Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi. Oxford. 2015.- Koch, G. Die mythologischen Sarkophage, Pt. 6: Meleage. 1975. NANCY, Lady Bagot. Blithfield Hall, A Country House Saved. 2011.
Good general condition. It presents lines of breakage in the abdomen area, and in three points of the leg.
Measurements: 41 cm. high.
Round sculpture sculpted in marble of a male figure next to a dog. He is identified with the Greek hero Meleager. The sculptural ensemble is inspired by a Greek original attributed to Scopas, dated to the 4th century BC, which is kept in the Museo Pio-Clementino in Rome. Scopas (ca. 380-330 BC), together with Lysippus and Praxiteles, form the three great sculptors representative of the second phase of classicism. The nude anatomy presents the classical canons of ideal beauty. Adopting a contrapposto pose, she rests her hips against a tree trunk, beneath which a dog gazes at its master. Only a short cloth covers her chest, a chlamys or woollen garment worn by Greek ephebes between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC. He is wearing a fibula, or a restraint, on his right shoulder. He was probably armed with a spear or bow, emulating the image of a victorious hunter. The entire scene rests on an architectural base composed of an architrave. It must have been part of an important sarcophagus. Meleager was the son of the king of Calidon, named Aeneus, and Altea, a legendary hunter and powerful warrior. When he was only days old, the Moirae visited him and told his mother that the little boy would die only when the firewood burning in the hearth was consumed. His legend is recorded by Homer.
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