Hellenistic Age Bronze Statues - images
collection from greek museums
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Bronze statue of a horse and a young jockey. Retrieved in pieces from the shipwreck of Cape Artemision in Euboea.
The work is known as the "Artemision jockey". The group was reassembled in
1971, with the financial support of an American lady and the Psichas
Foundation. About 140 BC. |
Bronze portrait head. Found in the Lake Palaestra,Delos. The modelling
of the flesh in many planes attests to a great sculptor, whose work
expresses the characteristic psychological realism of the Late Hellenistic
Period. Early 1st c. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. |
Left arm of a larger than life-size statue of a young boxer. The arm
was cast separately from the rest of the statue. The athlete wears the
so-called sharp thongs; these were strips of leather that were wound
around the wrist and protected the back of the hand. 2nd c BC. National
Archaeological Museum of Athens. |
Statuette of a shepherd. The figure holds a lamb in the left arm. Work
of the 1st cent. BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens |
Statuette of Athena on a circular base. The goddess wears a heavy tunic
(peplos) forming an overfold and the goatskin with the Gorgon's head on
the bosom. The figure has a helmet of attic type on the head. The left
hand would rest on a spear. 1st c. BC. National Archaeological Museum of
Athens. |
Statuette of a female figure, probably Aphrodite seated on a rock. The
figure wears a mantle (himation) covering the lower part of the torso. The
type is known from Rhodes in the end of 2nd c. BC. and was imitated in
later times too. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. |
Sword in the scabbard,part of a statue. The hilt and the scabbard bear
incised decoration. The type was widespread particularly in the
Hellenistic period. 200-150 BC. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. |
Portrait head from a statue of a philosopher. Bronze. Found in the
Antikythera shipwreck. The philosopher was depicted standing, wearing a
long himation. In his left hand he held a staff, and the right was
extended in a characteristic gesture of orators. He wears sandals with
thick soles. This statue depicted a cynic philosopher probably Bion the
Borysthenite. About 240 BC. |
Bronze statue of Poseidon. From Pella. Late Hellenistic period. |
Bronze head of a boy. Late 2nd c. BC. Olympia Archaeological Museum. |
Bronze statue of Apollo. The hair, held in place by a fillet, is drawn
back into a chgnon at the nape, forming free locks on the back and
shoulders. 1st cent. BC. |
Bronze statue of Dionysos. The God beardless, is represented as if
walking. He wears a short light chiton, a fawnskin and boots. On the head
is an ivy wreath and bunches of grapes hang either side of the face. He
would hold a wand wreathed in ivy-and vine- leaves with a pine cone at the
top in the right hand and a drinking cup (kantharos) in the left. About
2nd c. BC. Chochlia , Eurytania. |