Hellenistic - Fragmentary Head

Hellenistic - Fragmentary HeadA print of a Hellenistic fragmentary head the surviving face of a classical statue whose body is lost, of the kind produced in the late Greek workshops of the 4th to 1st centuries BC and copied extensively by Roman marble cutters. Hellenistic sculpture is the period between Alexander's conquests and the consolidation of the Roman Empire roughly 323 to 31 BC and it is in many ways the technical high point of Greek figurative art. Expression became more

gods and heroes either entirely nude or wearing only a sword-belt and helmet

A black and white print from Giovanni Folo's engraving after Antonio Canova's Hercules and Lichas — the Neoclassical marble in which the dying Hercules

the allegorical female figure who represents the Greek nation in the long tradition of Western allegorical art

inherited from Zeus

tonal style of the watercolour — colour running into the page

the nymphs composed around it like figures on a Greek vase

A black and white photograph the Braschi Antinous

The subject was painted from Greek vase painting onward through Etruscan bronzes

The stage wall still has its niches

The Hercules-and-lion-skin became his defining attribute

her body stretched in resistance

His centaurs