Hellenistic sculpture

Name: Hellenistic sculpture
Author: Dickins, Guy

Dickins, Guy

Sculpture, Greek; Sculpture, Hellenistic

Isis, head of, in Louvre, 24;
    priest of, in Capitol, 24.


  Jason in Louvre, 40 sqq.


  Kephisodotos, _symplegma_ of, 4.

  Knife-grinder of the Uffizi, 6 sq.

  _Korai_ in Greco-Roman art, 79.

  Kritios, ephebe of, 74.


  Laocoon, 1, 39, 41, 48, 50, 51.

  Leochares, 70.

  Ligourio bronze, 74.

  Litter, bronze, in Conservatori, 43.

  Lycosura, group at, 60 sqq.

  Lysippos, pupils of, 3, 36 sqq.;
    all-round figures of, 41;
    female type of, 39;
    influence of: on Antiochene art, 33;
      on Farnese Bull, 49;
      on Hermes of Andros, 55;
      on Rhodian school, 36 sqq.;
      on Victory of Samothrace, 47.


  Macedonia, attitude of, towards art, 3;
    as enemy of Athens, 2.

  Maenad, dancing, in Berlin, 8;
    in Conservatori, 78;
    Scopaic, in Neo-Attic art, 76.

  Magnesia, Amazonomachy from, 17;
    draped figure from, 45, 47.

  Mahdia ship, statuettes from, 28.

  Mainland schools of Greece, 53 sqq.

  Mantinean basis, 38, 45.

  Marsyas, ‘red’ and ‘white’, 6;
    Pergamene group of, with Apollo and Scythian slave, 6 sq.

  Medici Venus, 71.

  Meleager type, Scopaic, 56.

  Melos, art of, 63 sqq.

  Menander relief, 16, 30, 32.

  Menelaos (Ajax) and Patroclos, 48, 50.

  Menelaos, pupil of Stephanos, group by, 74.

  Models, use of living, 7;
    clay, 72.

  _Morbidezza_ in Alexandrian work, 21.

  Muscles, exaggeration of, 7;
    of Farnese Herakles, 70;
    of Laocoon, 50;
    in Neo-Attic works, 78;
    Rhodian naturalism in rendering of, 37.

  Muses, of Philiskos, 44 sq.;
    of the Vatican, 46.


  Naturalism, in Alexandrian art, 25, 27 sqq.;
    in floral designs, 82;
    in Rhodian art, 37 sq., 47.

  Negro’s head in Berlin, 28.

  Nemi, bearded head from, 24.

  Neo-Attic sculpture, 69, 75 sqq.

  Nile, statue of, 32.

  Niobid, Chiaramonti, 47.

  Niobids, slaying of, 30.

  Nottingham Castle, head in, 24.


  Odysseus, Chiaramonti, 48 sq.

  Ofellius, C., of Delos, 58.

  Old woman, of Capitol, 28;
    of Conservatori, 28;
    of Dresden, 29.

  Orestes and Electra, 74.

  Orontes, figure of, 33.

  Otricoli, Zeus of, 23.


  Painting, influence of, on sculpture, 15, 22, 30, 81.

  Papias of Aphrodisias, 51.

  Parrhasios, 7, 15.

  Pasiteles, 69, 72 sqq.

  Pastoral reliefs, 30 sqq.

  Pellichos, portrait of, 27.

  Peloponnese, art of, 59 sqq.

  Pergamon, early school of, 4 sqq.;
    later school of, 12 sqq.;
    altar friezes from, 12 sqq.;
    characteristics of art of, 5, 8, 17;
    erotic groups of, 4;
    girl’s head from, 5, 65;
    Hellenistic reliefs ascribed to, 31;
    mixed tradition in art of, 7, 17;
    satyr types of, 7;
    influence of: on other schools, 18;
      on Damophon, 60;
      on Euboulides, 59;
      on Melian Aphrodite, 65;
      on Melian Poseidon, 63.

  Persian, head of dead, in Terme Museum, 11.

  Philiskos, 44 sq.

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Hellenistic sculpture

Dickins, Guy

Sculpture, Greek; Sculpture, Hellenistic

Isis, head of, in Louvre, 24;
    priest of, in Capitol, 24.


  Jason in Louvre, 40 sqq.


  Kephisodotos, _symplegma_ of, 4.

  Knife-grinder of the Uffizi, 6 sq.

  _Korai_ in Greco-Roman art, 79.

  Kritios, ephebe of, 74.


  Laocoon, 1, 39, 41, 48, 50, 51.

  Leochares, 70.

  Ligourio bronze, 74.

  Litter, bronze, in Conservatori, 43.

  Lycosura, group at, 60 sqq.

  Lysippos, pupils of, 3, 36 sqq.;
    all-round figures of, 41;
    female type of, 39;
    influence of: on Antiochene art, 33;
      on Farnese Bull, 49;
      on Hermes of Andros, 55;
      on Rhodian school, 36 sqq.;
      on Victory of Samothrace, 47.


  Macedonia, attitude of, towards art, 3;
    as enemy of Athens, 2.

  Maenad, dancing, in Berlin, 8;
    in Conservatori, 78;
    Scopaic, in Neo-Attic art, 76.

  Magnesia, Amazonomachy from, 17;
    draped figure from, 45, 47.

  Mahdia ship, statuettes from, 28.

  Mainland schools of Greece, 53 sqq.

  Mantinean basis, 38, 45.

  Marsyas, ‘red’ and ‘white’, 6;
    Pergamene group of, with Apollo and Scythian slave, 6 sq.

  Medici Venus, 71.

  Meleager type, Scopaic, 56.

  Melos, art of, 63 sqq.

  Menander relief, 16, 30, 32.

  Menelaos (Ajax) and Patroclos, 48, 50.

  Menelaos, pupil of Stephanos, group by, 74.

  Models, use of living, 7;
    clay, 72.

  _Morbidezza_ in Alexandrian work, 21.

  Muscles, exaggeration of, 7;
    of Farnese Herakles, 70;
    of Laocoon, 50;
    in Neo-Attic works, 78;
    Rhodian naturalism in rendering of, 37.

  Muses, of Philiskos, 44 sq.;
    of the Vatican, 46.


  Naturalism, in Alexandrian art, 25, 27 sqq.;
    in floral designs, 82;
    in Rhodian art, 37 sq., 47.

  Negro’s head in Berlin, 28.

  Nemi, bearded head from, 24.

  Neo-Attic sculpture, 69, 75 sqq.

  Nile, statue of, 32.

  Niobid, Chiaramonti, 47.

  Niobids, slaying of, 30.

  Nottingham Castle, head in, 24.


  Odysseus, Chiaramonti, 48 sq.

  Ofellius, C., of Delos, 58.

  Old woman, of Capitol, 28;
    of Conservatori, 28;
    of Dresden, 29.

  Orestes and Electra, 74.

  Orontes, figure of, 33.

  Otricoli, Zeus of, 23.


  Painting, influence of, on sculpture, 15, 22, 30, 81.

  Papias of Aphrodisias, 51.

  Parrhasios, 7, 15.

  Pasiteles, 69, 72 sqq.

  Pastoral reliefs, 30 sqq.

  Pellichos, portrait of, 27.

  Peloponnese, art of, 59 sqq.

  Pergamon, early school of, 4 sqq.;
    later school of, 12 sqq.;
    altar friezes from, 12 sqq.;
    characteristics of art of, 5, 8, 17;
    erotic groups of, 4;
    girl’s head from, 5, 65;
    Hellenistic reliefs ascribed to, 31;
    mixed tradition in art of, 7, 17;
    satyr types of, 7;
    influence of: on other schools, 18;
      on Damophon, 60;
      on Euboulides, 59;
      on Melian Aphrodite, 65;
      on Melian Poseidon, 63.

  Persian, head of dead, in Terme Museum, 11.

  Philiskos, 44 sq.

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