Figure of a Youth from a Funerary Stele (Monument)
Date:
about 380 BCE
Artist:
Greek; Athens
About this artwork
This young man’s angular nose, bow-shaped mouth, and softly muscled body reflect the ideals of male beauty that prevailed in the fourth century BCE. His mantle, attached at one shoulder, suggests that he was a servant or enslaved person. This fragmentary portrait was likely part of a more complex scene; perhaps this figure accompanied his master in a larger composition.
Figure of a Youth from a Funerary Stele (Monument)
Place
Greece (Object made in)
Date
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1959-1960 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1960), p. 14.
Art Insitute of Chicago Quarterly, “Two Masterpieces of Athenian Sculpture,” vol. 54, no. 4: 4 (December, 1960), pp. 6-9.
Adolf Furtwangler and AL. N. Oikonomides (ed.), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A series of Essays on the History of Art (Chicago: Argonaut, 1964), pl. 2 (ill.).
Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada (Berkely: University of California Press, 1981), p. 104.
Cornelius Vermeule, Art and Archeology of Antiquity, vol. I (London: Pindar Press, 2001), p. 329.
Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture From the Classical Collection, Gallery 101A, September 1, 1987 - August 31, 1988.
Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - Jan. 22, 2019.
Said to be from Kerameikos Cemetary, Athens [according to registrar documents]. Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York City; sold to the Art Institute, 1960; price reiumbursed by Srma and Silvain S. Wyler, 1960.
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