Blond head from the Acropolis
The so-called blonde head of the Acropolis is the head of a statue of a youth or an ephebe made of marble and is in the Acropolis Museum in Athens (Inv. 689). It was found northeast of the Acropolis Museum in the so-called Persian rubble . The height of the head in the axis of the nose is 25 cm, width below the earlobes 12.5 cm. Chin depth to hole in vertebra 22.8 cm (see Schrader, p. 197).
This around 480 BC A sculpture created in BC could possibly come from a teacher of Phidias . These in turn were the Athenian Hegias and Hageladas of Argos .
The original blonde color of the curly hair has faded. Only paint remains on the surface are preserved. The hair is almost more indicative of the archaic style than is the case with the so-called Kritios boy, who was assigned to the Strict Style at around the same time .
Cast of the blond head from the Acropolis.
Side view
literature
- Hans Schrader : The archaic marble sculptures of the Acropolis (text volume) . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1939, p. 197 ff. No. 302.
- Vinzenz Brinkmann : The polychromy of archaic and early classical sculpture (= studies of ancient painting and coloring. Vol. 5). Biering & Brinkmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-930609-19-3 , cat.no.110.
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Remarks
- ↑ The hair color is based on the remaining color of the original. The face painting corresponds to current research assumptions and was carried out by Alfons Neubauer, chief restorer of the Glyptothek in Munich ; see Vinzenz Brinkmann: Die Polychromie Cat. No. 110.