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Bronze Herakles

Period:
Archaic
Date:
last quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Culture:
Greek
Medium:
Bronze
Dimensions:
H. 5 1/16 in. (12.80 cm)
Classification:
Bronzes
Credit Line:
Fletcher Fund, 1928
Accession Number:
28.77

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 155

  • Description

    Herakles is presented here not only as a hero of extraordinary strength and vitality but also as a beautifully groomed—and thus civilized—individual. This aspect is emphasized; on the Andokides amphora, he appears as fully the equal of the god Apollo. Only later do episodes such as the madness that Hera inflicted upon him become prominent in art. The bronze statuette was probably made as a dedication in a sanctuary.

  • Provenance

    Said to be from Mantinea (Richter 1928, p. 268).

    Acquired April 2, 1928, purchased from Joseph Brummer, New York.

  • References

    Langlotz, E. 1927. Fruehgriechische Bildhauerschulen. Nürnberg: E. Frommann & Sohn, p. 55, no. 26, pl. 27, b.

    Richter, Gisela M.A. 1928. "A Bronze Statuette of Herakles." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 23(11): 266-68, figs. 1-3.

    Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. 1937. Master Bronzes: Selected from Museums and Collections in America. Buffalo, N.Y., no. 71, ill.

    Detroit Institute of Arts. 1947. An Exhibition of Small Bronzes of the Ancient World. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, p. 9, no. 59, ill. p. 32.

    Bothmer, Dietrich von. 1978. Antichnoe iskusstvo iz muzeia Metropoliten, Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki. Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik, no. 39.

    Mertens, Joan R. 1985. "Greek Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 43(2): no. 14, pp. 10, 26-27, 34, 55.

    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1988. Vol. 4, "Herakles," p. 735, no. 26, pl. 446. Zürich: Artemis.

    Picón, Carlos A., et al. 2007. Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 89, pp. 86, 422.

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