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Relief of Striding Warriors

300–200 BCE

Greek/South Italian, Taranto (ancient Taras). 3rd Century BCE

Limestone

Overall: 32.7 cm (12 7/8 in.)

Weight: 11.793 kg (26 lbs.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.436

Location

102C Greek

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This relief was likely part of a larger frieze that decorated a naiskos, or small temple, above a grave.

Description

This carved limestone relief depicts two warriors striding to the right, one wearing a broad traveler's hat called a petasos and the other a Corinthian helmet. Each wears a short cloak called a chlamys over his left arm (now missing on the righthand warrior). The left warrior looks back, perhaps toward a horseman, since a small fragment of a horse’s foreleg remains behind his knee. The strong diagonals of the warriors contrasted with the flowing drapery of their cloaks demonstrates a dynamism characteristic of Hellenistic relief sculpture.

Citations

Howard, Rossiter. "Orestes Sarcophagus and Greek Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 4 (1928): 90-87. Mentioned, p. 91. www.jstor.org

Klumbach, Hans. Tarentiner Grabkunst. Reutlingen: Gryphius-Verlag, 1937. no. 15, pp. 4, 58, 71-73, pl. 4.

Wuilleumier, Pierre. Tarente, des origines à la conquête romaine. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, fasc. CXLVIII, Paris,1939. pp. 300, pl. 13, 5.

Bieber, Margarete. "Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America Vol. 31, No. 3 (July 1943): 113-126. Discussed p. 123, ill fig. 10.

Bernabo-Brea, Luigi. "I rilievi tarantini in pietra tenera." Rivista dell'Istituto Nazionale d’Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte, Nuova Serie I, 1952. pp. 120-121, fig. 82.

Bieber, Margarete. The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age Rev. ed. Columbia Bicentennial Editions and Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. P. 170, Fig. 722.

Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7-8; Plate 14 archive.org

Havelock, Christine Mitchell. Hellenistic Art; The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1970. Pages 190-191, cat. 149.

Hoffmann, Herbert. Collecting Greek Antiquities. New York: C.N. Potter, 1971. Pp. 14-15, fig. 15.

Carter, Joseph Coleman. The Sculpture of Taras. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; new ser., v. 65, pt. 7). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975. Described p. 68, cat. 188, ill. pl. 31a.

Hadzi, Martha Leeb. Transformations in Hellenistic Art, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, February 3-March 18, 1983. [South Hadley, Mass.]: Trustees of Mount Holyoke College, 1983. P. 32, cat. 12.

Exhibition history

Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949).

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Relief of Striding Warriors

Greek/South Italian, Taranto (ancient Taras). 3rd Century BCE

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