Collection place: Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany / Donor: Alfred Emerson - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of relief fragment, accession number 21-199, described as Cast of “Achilles and Priam” From a small bronze relief found at Olympia. Olympia IV Plate 39. Friedrichs-Wolters 342 describes the subject as a woman offering a wreath to a spearman whose adversary lies slain at his feet. Age and make as before. Compare with 21-198. Relief features Homeric epic scene.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of relief fragment, accession number 21-200, described as Cast of boy on horse back, perhaps Troilus, prince of Troy, who was slain by Achilles. From bronze found at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV Plate 39 and Friederichs-Wolters 343. Relief features Homeric epic scene.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of sphinx, accession number 21-213, described as Cast of double-faced sphinx. Twice. Its decorative use, perhaps, as a lid handle made its execution with a double front advantageous. Early art was accustomed to creatures with two bodies or faces. These representations are without mysterious meaning. They derive from the primitive draughtman’s instinct for featuring both sides of his subject, fish, bird, quadruped or man. From an early Greek bronze figure found and preserved at Olympia, Greece. Olympia IV Plate 48. Friederichs-Wolters 368.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster casts of celts, accession number 21-244, described as Cast of Celts, varied. From originals found near Cassel, Hesse. 3641 preserved at Cassel, Hesse. 3642-3 in the Berlin Museum of Ethnology, Katalog IV, 410 and II 10844-5.

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