Resting satyr
The resting satyr ( Greek Σάτυρος ἀναπαυόμενος ; Satyros anapauomenos; from ἀναπαύω / anapaúô , (rest)) is a sculpture that is often copied and assigned to the ancient sculptor Praxiteles . The most famous of the 115 known representatives of this type is the copy exhibited in the Capitoline Museums .
From the original bronze -made plastic represents a young satyr illustrates how the pointed ears and be seen and wear it diagonally across the upper body panther skin. He rests with his right elbow on a tree stump, the foot of the right free leg loosely placed behind the left heel. In some copies he is holding a panpipe (syrinx) or other object in his right hand. The left backhand rests behind the hip and pushes the panther skin backwards slightly. The idealized facial features show the characteristics of the late classical period , the curly and barely tamed hair is tied with a bandage .
The image of the resting satyr is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his book Naturalis historia (XXXIV, 69) as follows:
- Praxiteles made a Liber Pater , a famous drunken man, and a satyr in bronze , which the Greeks called "periboêtos".
literature
- Elisabeth Bartman: Ancient Sculptural Copies in Miniature . Brill, Leyden, New York and Cologne 1992, ( Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition . Vol. 19), ISBN 9789004095328 .
- Francis Haskell , Nicholas Penny : Taste and the Antique . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 1981, p. 36.
- Jean-Luc Martinez: Les satyres de Praxitèle . In: Praxitèle . Catalog de l'exposition au musée du Louvre, 23 mars – 18 June 2007. Editions du Louvre & Somogy, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-35031-111-1 , pp. 236–291.
- Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway : Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture . University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1997, ISBN 0-299-15470-X , pp. 265-267.
- Barbara Vierneisel-Schlörb : Glyptothek Munich . Catalog of the sculptures Vol. 2: Classical sculptures of the 5th and 4th centuries BC Chr. CH Beck, Munich 1979, p. 32, p. 353-369.
