Object name: Statuette (reproduction) / Collection place: Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany / Person depicted: Artemis (Greek deity) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Object name Statuette (reproduction) Collection place Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany Person depicted Artemis (Greek deity)

Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-208, described as Cast of a goddess, probably Artemis (Latin: Diana). From a bronze found at Olympia. The goddess wears a diadem. Her hair is knotted. Her left arm and the attribute her right hand held are missing. A nearly engraved meander pattern follows the hem of her tunic’s swallow-tail overlap. The tunic itself clings to her person, adding to the gracefulness of her figure. Her face wears an archaic smile of a less rigidly conventional character than usual. This statuette illustrates an advanced stage of primitive Greek art corresponding to the paintings we see on some of the best early red-figured vases. Compare Olympia IV Plate 7, and Friederichs-Wolters 358. Late 6th and 5th Century B.C.