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Portrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes

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Description: Portrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes
TitlePortrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes
Creator nameUnknown
Creator nationality/cultureGraeco-Roman
Creator roleSculptor
Creation date100 BC–200 AD
Object typeSculpture
MaterialsLeaded bronze
LocationHarvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
https:/­/­hvrd.art/­o/­4842
Accession number2007.221
SubjectsPortrait sculpture, AncientOrators--Greece
Statusafter an original life-size portrait statue of c. 280 BC by Polyeuktos
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Coda: A System of Images
Seth Estrin
Description: Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
What might art history look like if it accounted for an object’s form not in terms of making—in terms of its style or iconography, for instance—but in terms of emotion? Over a century ago, such a way of...
Author
Seth Estrin
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by Seth Estrin
Related print edition pages: pp.181-186
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100334&redirecttoanchor=205715
Chapter subject tags:Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929. MnemosyneSepulchral monuments--GreeceFuneral rites and ceremonies--GreeceRelief (Sculpture), GreekSculpture, GreekEmotion in artAthens (Greece)--History
6. Roman Bronze Statuettes: Copies of Greek Sculpture?
Adrian Stähli
Description: Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens: Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient...
Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens: Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes
Roman bronze statuettes largely follow a repertoire of visual motifs and iconographic types that had been developed in...
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Susanne Ebbinghaus (Editor)
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2014 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.133-145
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00015.010
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16271&redirecttoanchor=205715
Chapter subject tags:Bronzes, AncientSculpture, Roman--Greek influencesPortrait sculpture, Roman

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