Statuette (reproduction)

Museum number:
21-208
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1851 (original number), 8-5208 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), and 924 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
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.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Person depicted:
Artemis (Greek deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Statuettes (free-standing sculpture)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
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.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.Documentation associated with 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.

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