Bust of Heraclitus

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Late 19th century reproduction

Italian
Chiurazzi and De Angelis Foundry, Naples, Italy

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Ancient Greek
Title: Bust of Heraclitus
Place: Ancient Greece (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Cast 1801–1900
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 71.1 × 43.2 × 29.2 cm (28 × 17 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of H. N. Higinbotham
Reference Number: 1893.128

J. Chiurazzi & Fils, Bronzes, marbres, argenterie (Naples, 1911) p. 10.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 23.

Chiurazzi and De Angelis Foundry, Naples, Italy; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893; price reimbursed by H.N. Higinbotham, 1893.

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