Athena Mattei
| Autor: | G. B. Waywell |
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| Rok vydání: | 1971 |
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| Zdroj: | The Annual of the British School at Athens. 66:373-382 |
| ISSN: | 2045-2403 0068-2454 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0068245400019274 |
| Popis: | The marble statue of a youthful Athena, which was once in the Mattei collection and is now in the Louvre in Paris, has long been regarded as a work of considerable beauty and charm (Plate 66a–c). It seems to be a copy of an original of the fourth century B.C., but because no other versions of the type are known there has been some hesitation in attributing it to a particular sculptural workshop.Within the last few years the Athena Mattei has emerged as one of the most important ancient copies in existence. For in 1959 a number of bronze statues were found by chance in Piraeus, and amongst them was a magnificent bronze Athena which appears to be the original from which the statue in the Louvre was copied (Plates 67, 68a). It is the purpose of this article to investigate the relationship between the two statues and to consider the implications regarding the date and authorship both of the marble copy and of the bronze original. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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