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Relief of Striding Warriors

Relief of Striding Warriors

300–200 BCE
(ancient Taras)
limestone
Overall: 32.7 cm (12 7/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.436
Location: 102C Greek

Did You Know?

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.
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    Wuilleumier, Pierre. Tarente, des origines à la conquête romaine. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, fasc. CXLVIII, Paris,1939. Mentioned: p. 300, Reproduced: 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, Roma: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1952. pp. 120-121, fig. 82.
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    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. Mentioned: p. 14-15, Reproduced: 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. Mentioned: 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. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 32, cat. 12.
  • 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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