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| Name: |
Hermes
Seated on a Rock |
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| Description: |
Bronze
Roman copy of Greek original. From Herculaneum. Naples Archaeological
Museum. H. 1.05m. Youthful Hermes seated on a rock, right leg stretched
before him, left leg tucked close to the stone. He wears winged sandals,
apart from which he is naked. His left arm rests on his left thigh,
and he supports his upper body weight with his right hand resting
on the rock. The torso is leaning slightly forwards. Hermes looks
pensive and restless. |
| Date: |
c. 250 B.C. |
| Discussion: |
This
unsettled, twisting pose makes it appear as though Hermes is about
to fly away. The body seems Lysippan, although the head is more in
the style of late Republican or early Imperial Rome. Pollitt suggests
that it is a pastiche of Hermes in the tradition of Delian 'pseudo-athletic'
sculptures (p. 58). See Pollitt 1986: 57-8, fig. 52. |
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