CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF A GOD OR ATHLETE
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Over-lifesized, the youthful figure depicted nude, standing with his hip thrust to his right, his right arm originally raised, the left lowered and projecting slightly forward, the details of his musculature well defined
42 1/8 in. (107 cm.) high

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European Private Collector, early 1990s.
with Phoenix Ancient Art, mid 1990s.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York, late 1990s.

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G. Max Bernheimer

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This impressive torso recalls the marble figure of Hermes carrying the infant Dionysos found at Olympia. The modelling of the musculature of the present torso is more robust, but it shares the grace, off-balance pose and blurring of anatomical details. The Olympia statue has traditionally been attributed to the 4th century B.C. sculptor Praxiteles, since the Roman writer Pausanius (5.17.3) saw such a statue there which he attributed to the master, but modern scholarship suggests that the figure discovered there may be from the Hellenistic period. (For commentary see p. 261 in Ridgway, Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture. For front and back images of the Hermes see figs. 73b and c in Pasquier and Martinez, Praxitèle).