![]() "Rhodian Sculpture: A School, a Style, or Many Workshops?." Regional Schools in Hellenistic Sculpture: Proceedings of an International Conference Held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, March 15-17, 1996, Dr. Der Betende Knabe: Original und Experiment. Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary. 1017, Rome: Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale: Atlante delle Forme Ceramiche, Suppl. Carratelli, Giovanni Pugliese and Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli. 10, 72–3, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Untersuchungen zu liegenden Eroten in der hellenistischen und römischen Kunst." Ph.D. Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). "Greek Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 43(2): no. Robertson, Martin and Cambridge University Press. 1, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Acquisitions from the Brummer Gallery." The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sixth International Exhibition presented by C.I.N.O.A. Forsyth, William Holmes and The International Confederation of Dealers in Works of Art. 102, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, 3rd edn. 20, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Small Sculptures in Bronze: A Picture Book. "The Classical Contribution to Western Civilization." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 7(8): p. "A Bronze Eros." American Journal of Archaeology, 47(4): pp. "A Bronze Eros." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2(3): pp. To experts illuminate this artwork's story They may have been used as dedications within a sanctuary of Aphrodite or possibly may have been erected in a public park or private, even royal, garden. Their function in the Hellenistic period is less clear. In the Roman period, Sleeping Eros statues decorated villa gardens and fountains. Judging from the large number of extant replicas, the type was popular in Hellenistic and, especially, Roman times. This statue is the finest example of its kind. The support on which the god rests is a modern addition, but the work originally would have had a separate base, most likely of stone. He is clearly based on firsthand observation. One of the few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity, this figure of a plump baby in relaxed pose conveys a sense of the immediacy and naturalistic detail that the medium of bronze made possible. This Eros, god of love, has been brought down to earth and disarmed, a conception considerably different from that of the powerful, often cruel, and capricious being so often addressed in Archaic poetry. Young children enjoyed great favor, whether in mythological form, as baby Herakles or Eros, or in genre scenes, playing with each other or with pets. The Hellenistic period introduced the accurate characterization of age.
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