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Large White Marble Head of Alexander the Great Rome 17th century Sculpture
about 1660

Price:$5,392.46

$7,489.07List Price

About the Item

Bellissima e imponente testa neoclassica in marmo di Alessandro Magno, Italia, Roma, XVII secolo. Fine Arts export certificate available. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), who enjoys great posterity throughout history, cultures and religions, was the subject of numerous works of art from Antiquity to the present day, making him one of the major political figures in Western art. Most contemporary or original works have disappeared, although many copies were made in Roman times, especially in the field of sculpture; In the 17th and 18th centuries, Alexander inspired sculptors who were part of classicism. The head, slightly larger than life-size, shows a definite lateral and backward twist in a typical heroic stance. The face, with strong but regular features and an open mouth, is crowned by thick hair with locks that, on the forehead, are arranged in an upward movement (anastole) characteristic of portraits of Alexander the Great. It was the sculptor Lysippus who, in creating the portrait of Alexander the Great, transformed the physical defect that required the leader, according to the sources, to hold his head sharply tilted over one shoulder into an upward facing attitude that seems to allude to a certain rapture. celestial, "a silent conversation with divinity." The fine modeling should derive from one of the many portraits of Alexander the Great, of the Acropolis Museum type (Young Alexander) or more reliably of the Pergamon type. Our head dates from the second half of the seventeenth century, and this is no coincidence: seventeenth-century Europe was rich in collections of archaeological relics and marble sculpture, particularly from the Roman but also Hellenic periods, which evoked, in the ideal of the noble classes, a refined and idealized taste for antiquity that pushed toward a reproduction but also a reworking of the classical style.

Creation Year:
about 1660
Dimensions:
Height: 13 in (33 cm)Width: 9.45 in (24 cm)Depth: 10.63 in (27 cm)
Medium:
Marble
Movement Style:
Old Masters
Period:
1660-1669
Condition:
La testa presenta segni di usura dovuti agli agenti esterni ma è solida e, anche se ci sono delle mancanze, non ha fratture o rotture. The head is accompanied by Italian Fine Arts export certficate and can be shipped immediately.
Gallery Location:
Pistoia, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2746215883412

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