Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-196
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1949 (original number), 8-5196 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), and 903 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Archaic Reliefs. Subjects: three eagles regardant; two griffins, a winged Artemis (Latin: Diana) with carnivora in her hands; Herakles shoots a centaur. Two of these subjects occur in Pausanias' description of the chest of Kypselos, a work probably of the VIII Century B.C., and they are all redolent of a primitive Greek art tinged with Orientalism. From a bronze plaque found at Olympia in 187. The original may have been one side of a bronze base. National Museum, Athens.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-196, described as Cast of Archaic Reliefs. Subjects: three eagles regardant; two griffins, a winged Artemis (Latin: Diana) with carnivora in her hands; Herakles shoots a centaur. Two of these subjects occur in Pausanias' description of the chest of Kypselos, a work probably of the VIII Century B.C., and they are all redolent of a primitive Greek art tinged with Orientalism. From a bronze plaque found at Olympia in 187. The original may have been one side of a bronze base. National Museum, Athens.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-196, described as Cast of Archaic Reliefs. Subjects: three eagles regardant; two griffins, a winged Artemis (Latin: Diana) with carnivora in her hands; Herakles shoots a centaur. Two of these subjects occur in Pausanias' description of the chest of Kypselos, a work probably of the VIII Century B.C., and they are all redolent of a primitive Greek art tinged with Orientalism. From a bronze plaque found at Olympia in 187. The original may have been one side of a bronze base. National Museum, Athens.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-196, described as Cast of Archaic Reliefs. Subjects: three eagles regardant; two griffins, a winged Artemis (Latin: Diana) with carnivora in her hands; Herakles shoots a centaur. Two of these subjects occur in Pausanias' description of the chest of Kypselos, a work probably of the VIII Century B.C., and they are all redolent of a primitive Greek art tinged with Orientalism. From a bronze plaque found at Olympia in 187. The original may have been one side of a bronze base. National Museum, Athens.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-196, described as Cast of Archaic Reliefs. Subjects: three eagles regardant; two griffins, a winged Artemis (Latin: Diana) with carnivora in her hands; Herakles shoots a centaur. Two of these subjects occur in Pausanias' description of the chest of Kypselos, a work probably of the VIII Century B.C., and they are all redolent of a primitive Greek art tinged with Orientalism. From a bronze plaque found at Olympia in 187. The original may have been one side of a bronze base. National Museum, Athens.

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