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The right hand from the wrist and the left arm from the middle of the upper arm are missing. The nose is broken. Reassembled at the arm and legs, with small areas restored at the joins. The youth is depicted nude on an integral plinth of irregular shape. He stands firmly on his right leg,
next to which is a support in the form of a tree trunk. The left, relaxed leg is bent at the knee. He will have held some object in his right hand, which is raised and extended forward. On his head he wears a ribbon, and his hair sits in waves and curls on the forehead and the nape.
According to some scholars this work is a Roman copy of a bronze statue attributed to Cypriot sculptor Stypax (V century BC).

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble statue
Height: 125 cm.
Eclectic work of the 2nd c. AD
Found on the site of the temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. no. 248

The right hand from the wrist and the left arm from the middle of the upper arm are missing. The nose is broken. Reassembled at the arm and legs, with small areas restored at the joins. The youth is depicted nude on an integral plinth of irregular shape. He stands firmly on his right leg,
next to which is a support in the form of a tree trunk. The left, relaxed leg is bent at the knee. He will have held some object in his right hand, which is raised and extended forward. On his head he wears a ribbon, and his hair sits in waves and curls on the forehead and the nape.
According to some scholars this work is a Roman copy of a bronze statue attributed to Cypriot sculptor Stypax (V century BC).

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble statue
Height: 125 cm.
Eclectic work of the 2nd c. AD
Found on the site of the temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. no. 248

The right hand from the wrist and the left arm from the middle of the upper arm are missing. The nose is broken. Reassembled at the arm and legs, with small areas restored at the joins. The youth is depicted nude on an integral plinth of irregular shape. He stands firmly on his right leg,
next to which is a support in the form of a tree trunk. The left, relaxed leg is bent at the knee. He will have held some object in his right hand, which is raised and extended forward. On his head he wears a ribbon, and his hair sits in waves and curls on the forehead and the nape.
According to some scholars this work is a Roman copy of a bronze statue attributed to Cypriot sculptor Stypax (V century BC).

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble statue
Height: 125 cm.
Eclectic work of the 2nd c. AD
Found on the site of the temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. no. 248

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

This marble headless torso of a man is a copy of an original bronze work of the Sth c. BC. The volumes of the limbs and the musculature of the body of the male figure depicted in heroic nudity are rendered with particular plasticity. Most probably the original sculpture was dedicated to a hero of Attica, maybe to the eponym hero Antiochus.
Unfortunately, the number of the original classical sculptures that have lived on to this day is small. Our insight into the plastic creations of the great artists is gained mainly through the systematic study of the Roman copies and the analysis of written sources.
The eminent sculptor Polykleitos, active between 460 and 420 BC, is known for the original system of mathematical proportions which he elaborated in his treatise “Kanon”. Proportion, beauty, perfection, and sufficiency that characterize the Greek art of the Classical period are concurrently praised by the Attic philosophy as values superior to any pleasure. At the same time, beauty as a virtue is propagated by beauty and ethos contests for men and women organized in various Greek cities with the euanaria (εὐανδρία), male beauty contest which formed part of the Panathenaic Games being the most
distinctive example.

Source: “The Countless Aspecys of the Beauty in Ancient Art” - Exhibition Catalogue - Athens, 2018

Roman marble sculpture
From Athens
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. Γ 1665

This marble headless torso of a man is a copy of an original bronze work of the Sth c. BC. The volumes of the limbs and the musculature of the body of the male figure depicted in heroic nudity are rendered with particular plasticity. Most probably the original sculpture was dedicated to a hero of Attica, maybe to the eponym hero Antiochus.
Unfortunately, the number of the original classical sculptures that have lived on to this day is small. Our insight into the plastic creations of the great artists is gained mainly through the systematic study of the Roman copies and the analysis of written sources.
The eminent sculptor Polykleitos, active between 460 and 420 BC, is known for the original system of mathematical proportions which he elaborated in his treatise “Kanon”. Proportion, beauty, perfection, and sufficiency that characterize the Greek art of the Classical period are concurrently praised by the Attic philosophy as values superior to any pleasure. At the same time, beauty as a virtue is propagated by beauty and ethos contests for men and women organized in various Greek cities with the euanaria (εὐανδρία), male beauty contest which formed part of the Panathenaic Games being the most
distinctive example.

Source: “The Countless Aspecys of the Beauty in Ancient Art” - Exhibition Catalogue - Athens, 2018

Roman marble sculpture
From Athens
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. Γ 1665

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

"Kriophoros", ram-bearer, is one of the Hermes' epithets that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram.
The god, with his right hand, holds by the horns a ram shown squatting on its hind legs next to his right leg. Hermes is depicted nude, frontally, his body turned slightly to his left, with his weight resting on his right leg and the relaxed left leg drawn behind. A small chlamys fastened on the left shoulder hangs down and covers his hand, in which he will have held the caduceus. On his head, turned to the right, he wears a petasos.
The work is a copy made in the 2nd c. AD of a late 5th c. BC original which has been attributed to the sculptor Naukydes, from the School of Polykleitos.

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble sculpture
Height: 180 cm.
Early 2nd century AD.
Found at Troizen, Argolid
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. No. 243

"Kriophoros", ram-bearer, is one of the Hermes' epithets that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram.
The god, with his right hand, holds by the horns a ram shown squatting on its hind legs next to his right leg. Hermes is depicted nude, frontally, his body turned slightly to his left, with his weight resting on his right leg and the relaxed left leg drawn behind. A small chlamys fastened on the left shoulder hangs down and covers his hand, in which he will have held the caduceus. On his head, turned to the right, he wears a petasos.
The work is a copy made in the 2nd c. AD of a late 5th c. BC original which has been attributed to the sculptor Naukydes, from the School of Polykleitos.

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble sculpture
Height: 180 cm.
Early 2nd century AD.
Found at Troizen, Argolid
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. No. 243

"Kriophoros", ram-bearer, is one of the Hermes' epithets that commemorates the solemn sacrifice of a ram.
The god, with his right hand, holds by the horns a ram shown squatting on its hind legs next to his right leg. Hermes is depicted nude, frontally, his body turned slightly to his left, with his weight resting on his right leg and the relaxed left leg drawn behind. A small chlamys fastened on the left shoulder hangs down and covers his hand, in which he will have held the caduceus. On his head, turned to the right, he wears a petasos.
The work is a copy made in the 2nd c. AD of a late 5th c. BC original which has been attributed to the sculptor Naukydes, from the School of Polykleitos.

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble sculpture
Height: 180 cm.
Early 2nd century AD.
Found at Troizen, Argolid
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. No. 243

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

The god is depicted standing, his weight carried on his left leg and the relaxed right leg bent at the knee and drawn slightly to the side and behind.
On his left shoulder hangs a chlamys which is wound around his left arm and hangs down to the statue support in the form of a tree trunk. In his right hand he held a purse and in his left the caduceus. The idealized head, its strong features rendered with outlines that recall metal models, is lowered and inclined to the god's left. The short, tousled hair is worked in crescent shaped locks and frames the face, hanging fairly low on the forehead. Probably a funerary statue, made in the Augustan period and inspired by Lysippean models of the 4th century BC.
The statue preserved almost intact together with its trapezoidal base.

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble sculpture
Height: 171cm.
Early 1st century AD.
From Aigion, Achaia, Peloponnese.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. No. 241

The god is depicted standing, his weight carried on his left leg and the relaxed right leg bent at the knee and drawn slightly to the side and behind.
On his left shoulder hangs a chlamys which is wound around his left arm and hangs down to the statue support in the form of a tree trunk. In his right hand he held a purse and in his left the caduceus. The idealized head, its strong features rendered with outlines that recall metal models, is lowered and inclined to the god's left. The short, tousled hair is worked in crescent shaped locks and frames the face, hanging fairly low on the forehead. Probably a funerary statue, made in the Augustan period and inspired by Lysippean models of the 4th century BC.
The statue preserved almost intact together with its trapezoidal base.

Source: Nikolaos Kaltsas, “Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens”

Pentelic marble sculpture
Height: 171cm.
Early 1st century AD.
From Aigion, Achaia, Peloponnese.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. No. 241

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles

Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Original en el Museo Arqueológico de Nápoles