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Apr 22, 2008

Athlete Making an Offering

c. 450–425 BC

Greece, probably from workshop of Locri or Tarentum, Classical Period

Bronze (hollow cast)

Overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); without tang: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.)

Gift of the Hanna Fund 1955.684

Location

102C Greek

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The missing right arm and hand of this athlete were cast separately and attached.

Description

Standing in a classic contrapposto pose, with one leg straight and weight-bearing, the other bent and relaxed, this athlete pauses after victory. He turns his head gently, looking down to make an offering with his lost right hand. At the sites of their victories and in their home cities, champion athletes were often honored with such sculptures, glorifying the strength and beauty of the male form at both small and large scale.

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 21 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. "A Bronze from the Age of Pericles." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 2 (1959): 19-24. www.jstor.org

Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5-6; Plate 8 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. “The Art Museum and Antiquity: Collection at Cleveland Museum of Art.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 78 (December 1963): 435–46. Discussed p. 440, Ill. p. 441, fig. 7.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 21 archive.org

Alsop, Joseph. "Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America (May-June 1966). Mentioned, ill., p. 33.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 21 archive.org

Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo. "A Greek Head of the Severe Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 3 (1969): 121-26. Ill., p. 126, fig. 8. www.jstor.org

Hoffmann, Herbert. Collecting Greek Antiquities. New York: C.N. Potter, 1971. Ill. p. 71, fig. 62.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 23 archive.org

Kranz, P. "Ein Zeugnis lokrischer Toreutik im Cleveland Museum of Art," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 85 (1978): 209-255, pl. 101-104, 106.

Neils, Jenifer. "A Horseman from Tarentum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 9 (1981): 331-38. Ill., p. 331, fig. 1. www.jstor.org

Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988. Pp. 95-98, cat. 12.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 9 archive.org

Hurwit, Jeffrey M. "The Doryphoros: Looking Backward" in Moon, Warren G., ed. Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 1995. pp. 3-18. Fig. 1.9, referenced p.10

Neils, Jenifer, Stephen V Tracy, and Stephen V Tracy. 2003. Tonathenethenathlon : The Games at Athens. Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture Book, No. 25. Athens, Greece: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Ill. p. 32, fig. 31.

Exhibition history

In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).

Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).

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