AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A YOUTH

CIRCA 350-300 B.C.

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AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE FIGURE OF A YOUTH
circa 350-300 b.c.
With a large head with incised center-parted hair combed in front of the prominent ears, the youthful face with large almond-shaped eyes, long straight nose and small mouth, the long neck flattening into abstracted slab-like arms and an elongated torso with small modelled nipples
5.1/8 in. (13 cm) high

Literature

Nefer 6, 1988, (no. 12, p. 13)

Lot Essay

Originally from an elongated abstract statue type known from the 4th Century B.C. Similar sculptures have been found in northern Etruria, at Chiusi and Voterra, and in Latium, at Nemi. See for example pl. 252 and 253 in Brendel, Etruscan Art.

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