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Athlete or Apollo

Athlete or Apollo

probably 100–1 BCE
(?)
bronze with silver inlays
Overall: 30.8 x 9 cm (12 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.170
Location: 102C Greek

Description

This bronze statuette depicts a nude male, perhaps a young athlete or the youthful god Apollo. Lost to time are objects he would have held in his hands, perhaps a bow and arrow. The weight-shift stance of the youth recalls the style of Praxiteles, master sculptor of the 4th century BC.
  • Comstock, Helen. "A Group of Greek Bronze Statuettes," International Studio. (July 1926): 33-37. Reproduced: p. 35. Mentioned: p.35-36.
    American Federation of Arts. The American Magazine of Art. New York, N.Y.: American Federation of Arts, 1927. Mentioned: p. 442
    Howard, Rossiter. “A Praxitelean Apollo.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 7 (July 1927): 118–120. Mentioned: p. 119-120; Reproduced: p. 118 www.jstor.org
    "Cleveland gets a Gem of Greek Sculpture," The Art Digest: (July 1927). Mentioned; p. 6 columns 1-2.
    "Cleveland Museum of Art Secures a Prize," The Antiquarian. New York: Antiquarian Publishing Co. (October 1927) Mentioned: p. 72
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928. Reproduced: p. 79 archive.org
    Bieber, Margarete." Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America (July 1943): 112-126. Mentioned: p. 126. Reproduced: fig. 19
    Robinson, Francis W. An Exhibition of Small Bronzes of the Ancient World: Mesopotamian, Hittite, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman : March 23rd Through April 20th, 1947. [Detroit]: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1947. Mentioned p.11, cat. no. 75, Reproduced p. 40
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 22 archive.org
    Lee, Sherman E. “A Bronze from the Age of Pericles.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 2 (February 1959): 19–24. Reproduced: p. 22; Mentioned: p. 22-23 www.jstor.org
    Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5; Plate 9 archive.org
    Walter-Karydi. Elena "Énas chálkinos Apóllon apó ti Makedonía kai i Makedonikí plastikí ton klasikón chrónon" in Vokotopoulou, Ioulia, and Dēmētrios Pantermalēs, eds. Myrtos: mnēmē Ioulias Vokotopoulou. Thessaloníkē: Hypourgeio Politismou, Aristoteleio Panepisté̄mio Thessalonikēs, 2000. p. 641-652. Mentioned: p. 641-645. Reproduced: p. 643-645. Figs. 1-4.
  • Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.170