Object class: Twelve Olympians / Media available: legacy documentation / Collection place: Central Europe - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-113, described as Cast of Athena Lemnia restored by Aldenhoven in accordance with Professor Furtwaengler. From the antique marble in the Royal Sculpture Gallery of Dresden, supplemented by its own head as preserved in the Museo Civico of Bologna. Dresden, Bologna, and Cologne in the Wallrath-Richarts Museum. Consult, on this brilliant effort in constructive archaeology, Furtwaegler’s Masterpieves of Greek Sculpture, Section Phidias. the torsos (for there are two) were recognized as copies of a statue by Phidias by Puchstein. The head passed in Bologna for an Attic Youth, and Professor Kekule clings to that interpretation, rejecting its pertinence to the Athena. Athenian colonists of Lemnos dedicated the statue in 448/447 BC. The rematch (Location column) was done by Professor Adolf Furtwaengler. The restoration follows an intaglio of the bare head, with a helmet set in the field as a key to the identity of the goddess, and a rf. painting of the goddess with spear and helmet. See, for a variant, a small carnelian of our own collection. “Centralstelle fiu Gipsabgusse.”CG. makes a specialty of fine bronzing, and of readaptations of casts in closer conformity with their lost Greek originals--by removal of stumps, etc. He also has a strong selection of molds from mediaeval and Renaissance works. Gold medal at St. Louis. Destroyed in 1989 Loma-Prieta Earthquake. Pieces discarded.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of bronze plaque, accession number 21-198, described as Cast of small early Greek relief. From a small bronze plaque found at Olympia. Made by an Argive artist probably of the 8th or 7th Century B.C. Compare Olympia IV Plate 39. Freiderichs-Wolters 345. Subject: the rage of Kassandra (Cassandra). Ajax, full-armed, seizes the Trojan princess, who clings, kneeling, to a statue of Athena. Relief features Homeric epic scene.

Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-143, described as Cast of Athena. From a bronze statuette found on the Akropolis of Athens, preserved in the Royal Antiquarium, Berlin. Compare Archaeologische Zeitung 1873, Plate 10.

Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-134, described as Cast of statuette of Apollo. From an original bronze found in Greece, and preserved in the Royal Antiquarium of Berlin. Compare Obervbeck, Kunstmythologie, Apollo, Figure 7.