fritchie
06-22-2004, 09:07 PM
[Sorry about the duplicate News Item, Mark. I had prepared this before login and added it without looking. Maybe Russ can append it to your thread.]
The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced acquisition of a lifesize ancient bronze that may be by the Classical Greek master Praxilites. Praxilites is best known for his Aphrodite of Knidos, the first Greek sculpture of a female in the nude, produced about 350 B.C.
The story is in today’s Arts section of the New York Times, and I attach a copy of the museum’s release photo.
The bronze is titled Sauroktonos or Lizard Slayer, a Praxilites work wellknown through Roman copies in marble, and the principal figure, a youthful Apollo, is complete except for the right arm beyond the elbow and the left arm beyond the shoulder. Some unattached bits also are present.
The work was discovered by a lawyer in his 80's, Ernst-Ulrich Walter, when he reclaimed his family estate reunited Germany in 1994. It was in pieces but was restored the same year. Much research has been done to authenticate the work, but it surely will generate additional analysis and critique.
The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced acquisition of a lifesize ancient bronze that may be by the Classical Greek master Praxilites. Praxilites is best known for his Aphrodite of Knidos, the first Greek sculpture of a female in the nude, produced about 350 B.C.
The story is in today’s Arts section of the New York Times, and I attach a copy of the museum’s release photo.
The bronze is titled Sauroktonos or Lizard Slayer, a Praxilites work wellknown through Roman copies in marble, and the principal figure, a youthful Apollo, is complete except for the right arm beyond the elbow and the left arm beyond the shoulder. Some unattached bits also are present.
The work was discovered by a lawyer in his 80's, Ernst-Ulrich Walter, when he reclaimed his family estate reunited Germany in 1994. It was in pieces but was restored the same year. Much research has been done to authenticate the work, but it surely will generate additional analysis and critique.