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| Name: |
Youth
Slaying a Bull |
| Picture: |
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| Description: |
Neo-Attic
relief. Unknown provenance. Present location unknown. Powerfully-built
naked youth stands in profile, cloak flying about his shoulders and
draped about his waist. His left hand grasps the bull's muzzle, pulling
its head back, and the right hand tugs at the beast's horn. The bull
is on its knees, its tail thrashing madly. |
| Date: |
150-86 B.C. |
| Discussion: |
In the
last century of the Republic, Roman taste for Greek art became voracious.
The Romans began to import Neo-Attic art when the stream of true Classical
art began to dry up, and enterprising Greeks took care to develop
a style most palatable to Roman taste, producing original works and
altered copies of Classical pieces. Ornate flying draperies were tremendously
popular on Neo-Attic work. See Pollitt 1986: 169-72; Stewart 1990:
229-30 for more information. |
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