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Greek Portraiture.
years earlier (see No. 11). The swollen ears show that the
man was a professional pugilist. For the present this is the
latest known portrait of an athlete of classical antiquity.
Tiling til Billedtavler pl. VIII. Fr. Poulsen in Videnskabernes Selskabs
Oversigt 1913, p. 418 seqq. Graindor, Bull. Corr. Hell. XXXIX, 1915 p. 340,
note 5. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture p. 389. L’Orange: Spatant. Portr.
p. 12 note 3. Cf. athlete heads in Berlin, Blumel: Rom. Bildn. Berlin p. 37,
R. 90, pl. 57 and p. 48, R. 116, pl. 77.
469 b. (I. N. 2485). Attic head of an ephebe, 3rd cent. A. D. M.
H. 0.30. Pentelic marble with a lovely Attic patina. The nose-tip
broken off, minor injuries to hair, right eyebrow and ear. Acquired in
Athens in 1910.
An Attic head of a youth of purest beauty, with a charm
and freshness which would not have been surprising in the
5th-4th cent. B. C., but which is astonishing shortly before
the middle of the 3rd cent. A. D., the period to which the
head belongs, judging from the stylistic signs (hair, eye-
brows and eyes)! And wonderful modelling of the delicately
curved lips and the softly rounded cheeks! The rustic-like
treatment of hair and eyebrows is of excellent effect from
a distance, as the viewer may see for himself. This head is
one of the most characteristic and successful specimens of
late-antique impressionism in art. In style it is comparable
with a head from Cos in the British Museum (Catalogue III
1968, pl. XX. Photo Mansell 318. Hinks: Greek and Roman
Portrait-Sculpture pl. 48 a).
Tillaeg til Billedtavler pl. VIII. Fr. Poulsen in Videnskabernes Selskabs
Oversigt 1913, p. 421 seqq. Graindor, Bull. Corr. Hell. XXXIX 1915, p. 351.
1’Orange: Spatant. Portr. p. 12 note 3. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture
p. 389 pl. 155 a.
470. (I. N. 1482). A Greek. Head. M.
H. from chin to vertex 0.28. The entire bust was modern in marble
and hos now been removed. Both eyebrows and the nose restored. Hair
and beard broken off, worn and smoothed. Once belonged to Freifrau
von Schanzenbach, Munich.
This inferior portrait, acquired in 1896 through the German
archaeologist A. Furtwangler, belongs to the 2nd cent. A. D.,
as the treatment of the pupil of the left eye shows, but may
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years earlier (see No. 11). The swollen ears show that the
man was a professional pugilist. For the present this is the
latest known portrait of an athlete of classical antiquity.
Tiling til Billedtavler pl. VIII. Fr. Poulsen in Videnskabernes Selskabs
Oversigt 1913, p. 418 seqq. Graindor, Bull. Corr. Hell. XXXIX, 1915 p. 340,
note 5. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture p. 389. L’Orange: Spatant. Portr.
p. 12 note 3. Cf. athlete heads in Berlin, Blumel: Rom. Bildn. Berlin p. 37,
R. 90, pl. 57 and p. 48, R. 116, pl. 77.
469 b. (I. N. 2485). Attic head of an ephebe, 3rd cent. A. D. M.
H. 0.30. Pentelic marble with a lovely Attic patina. The nose-tip
broken off, minor injuries to hair, right eyebrow and ear. Acquired in
Athens in 1910.
An Attic head of a youth of purest beauty, with a charm
and freshness which would not have been surprising in the
5th-4th cent. B. C., but which is astonishing shortly before
the middle of the 3rd cent. A. D., the period to which the
head belongs, judging from the stylistic signs (hair, eye-
brows and eyes)! And wonderful modelling of the delicately
curved lips and the softly rounded cheeks! The rustic-like
treatment of hair and eyebrows is of excellent effect from
a distance, as the viewer may see for himself. This head is
one of the most characteristic and successful specimens of
late-antique impressionism in art. In style it is comparable
with a head from Cos in the British Museum (Catalogue III
1968, pl. XX. Photo Mansell 318. Hinks: Greek and Roman
Portrait-Sculpture pl. 48 a).
Tillaeg til Billedtavler pl. VIII. Fr. Poulsen in Videnskabernes Selskabs
Oversigt 1913, p. 421 seqq. Graindor, Bull. Corr. Hell. XXXIX 1915, p. 351.
1’Orange: Spatant. Portr. p. 12 note 3. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture
p. 389 pl. 155 a.
470. (I. N. 1482). A Greek. Head. M.
H. from chin to vertex 0.28. The entire bust was modern in marble
and hos now been removed. Both eyebrows and the nose restored. Hair
and beard broken off, worn and smoothed. Once belonged to Freifrau
von Schanzenbach, Munich.
This inferior portrait, acquired in 1896 through the German
archaeologist A. Furtwangler, belongs to the 2nd cent. A. D.,
as the treatment of the pupil of the left eye shows, but may
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