Piston (sculptor)

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Seated Hermes from Herculaneum

Piston was a Greek sculptor who worked at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Was active.

According to Pliny he was an employee of the bronze sculptor Teisikrates . This was a pupil of the Lysipp pupil Euthykrates and is said to have created statues that were indistinguishable from those of Lysipp. For Teisikrates Piston created a female figure in a manufactured by Teisikrates Biga was placed. In addition, Pliny narrates that Piston created statues of an Ares and a Hermes , which were in the Temple of Concordia in Rome during Pliny’s time .

Maximilian Mayer associated the statue of Ares Ludovisi with the Ares des Piston in 1889 . Probably independently of Mayer, Camillo Praschniker also came to this assignment in 1922, followed by Carl Watzinger , for example . But this view could not prevail, since nothing is known about the artistic style of Pistons.

Praschniker also wanted to assign the seated Hermes from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum , now in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inventory number NM 5625), to the work Pistons . Despite all the uncertainty, this proposal was not rejected entirely.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34.89
  2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 66.
  3. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 89 : Tisicratis bigae Piston mulierem inposuit, idem fecit Martem et Mercurium, qui sunt in Concordiae templo Romae.
  4. ^ Maximilian Mayer: Meeting reports of the Archaeological Society in Berlin. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger . 1889, p. 41 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Camillo Praschniker: A new replica of Ares Ludovisi. In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Volume 21-22, 1922-1924, pp. 203-221.
  6. ^ Carl Watzinger: Expedition Ernst von Sieglin. Volume 2: The Greco-Egyptian Collection. Part 1b: painting and sculpture. Giesecke & Devrient Leipzig 1927, p. 31.
  7. ↑ For discussion see Steven Lattimore: Ares and the Heads of Heroes. In: American Journal of Archeology . Volume 83, 1979, pp. 71-78.
  8. ↑ For the statue see Carol Mattusch : The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum: Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2005, pp. 88 f., 216-222; Seated statue of Hermes in the Arachne archaeological database .
  9. ↑ Camillo Praschniker: A new replica of Ares Ludovisi. In: Annual books of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Volume 21-22, 1922-1924, pp. 216 f.
  10. ^ Charles Picard : Manuel d'Archéologie Grecque. La sculpture. Volume 3, part 2. Edition J. Picard, Paris 1947, p. 727 f .; Steven Lattimore: Ares and the Heads of Heroes. In: American Journal of Archeology . Volume 83, 1979, p. 71, note 4.
personal data
SURNAME Piston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.