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2title: Fotografi på Hermes och Dionysos gjord av Praxiteles Hallwylska museet - 104604
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credit: LSH 104604 (hm_dig18119)
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Note: For documentary purposes the original description has been retained. Factual corrections and alternative descriptions are encouraged separately from the original description.Fotografi på Hermes och Dionysos gjord av praxiteles.
Nyckelord: Resealbum, Staty, Fotolicense:Public domain
3title: Praxiteles, verksam på 300-talet f Kr, skulptör
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medium: en Watercolour and gouache on parchment sv Akvarell och gouache på pergament
current location: Institution:Nationalmuseum Stockholm
source: Nationalmuseum
credit: Nationalmuseum
license:Public domain
4title: Clevelandart 2004.30.a
artist: praxiteles
date: -340
medium: Bronze, copper and stone inlay
dimensions: Overall: 150 x 50.3 x 66.8 cm (59 1/16 x 19 13/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
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Although praxiteles was more successful, and therefore more famous for his marble sculptures, he nevertheless also created very beautiful works in bronze. He made a youthful Apollo called the Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer), waiting in ambush for a creeping lizard, close at hand, with an arrow. -Pliny the Elder, 1st century ad This statue of the Apollo Sauroktonos may be the one Pliny the Elder saw in the 1st century ad. The complete sculpture most likely showed the young god pulling back a slender laurel tree with his raised left hand, while holding an arrow at waist level with his right, poised to strike the lizard creeping up the tree. Two Roman marble copies preserve the complete composition: one in the Louvre, the other in the Vatican. The museum's sculpture is the only known life-size bronze version of the Apollo Sauroktonos. Technical features such as the way the sculpture was cast and repaired in antiquity, the copper inlays of the lips and nipples, and the stone insert for the right eye (the left is a restoration) are consistent with a date in the 4th century bc. However, technically it may have been possible to produce such a work in the Hellenistic period. The Apollo Sauroktonos is thought to have been created by praxiteles about 350 bc. Androgynous sensuality and languid, gracefully curved poses are hallmarks of his style. The finest large classical Greek statues were bronzes, but few have survived. If this sculpture is a product of praxiteles' workshop, it is the only large Greek bronze statue that can be attributed to a Greek sculptor. praxiteles was widely popular in his day. His famous Aphrodite of Cnidus (late 360s bc) introduced the life-size nude female figure to Western art.license:
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5title: Praxiteles Apollo the Python-Slayer - 2004.30 - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: praxiteles
date: c. 350 BC
medium: Bronze, copper and stone inlay
dimensions: Overall: 150 x 50.3 x 66.8 cm (59 1/16 x 19 13/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
description:
This bronze sculpture of Apollo formerly known as "Sauroktonos," or lizard-slayer, is attributed to the renowned Greek sculptor praxiteles. The survival of an original bronze sculpture attributed to a known artist in ancient Greece is extraordinarily rare. This sculptor is otherwise known only from Roman marble copies of his works.license:
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6title: Praxiteles Apollo the Python-Slayer - 2004.30.b - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: praxiteles
date: c. 350 BC
medium: Bronze, copper and stone inlay
dimensions: Overall: 25.9 x 8.8 x 8.7 cm (10 3/16 x 3 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
description:
Since antiquity praxiteles's masterpiece has been known as “Sauroktonos” (Lizard-Slayer). Pliny the Elder almost certainly saw the bronze original in Rome in the first century AD. He described a young Apollo about to stab a lizard with an arrow. Roman marble copies seemed to support this identification because they included lizards clinging to thick tree trunks. Until the acquisition of the only known bronze version by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2004, there was no reason to question Pliny's epithet.
The Cleveland Apollo's “lizard,” which is probably original to the sculpture, is not a lizard at all. It combines the body of a snake with strangely formed limbs of varying sizes joined asymmetrically to the body. Its disordered anatomy identifies it as an agent of chaos from the world of myth. It is most likely the Python, son of Mother Earth, who Apollo must slay to become the presiding deity at the Delphi sanctuary. The Cleveland Apollo can therefore be called a Python-Slayer, and “Sauroktonos” was perhaps a popular nickname for the famous
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7title: Praxiteles Apollo the Python-Slayer - 2004.30.c - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: praxiteles
date: c. 350 BC
medium: Bronze, copper and stone inlay
dimensions: Overall: 14.8 x 9.4 x 3.6 cm (5 13/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
description:
Although praxiteles was more successful, and therefore more famous for his marble sculptures, he nevertheless also created very beautiful works in bronze. He made a youthful Apollo called the Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer), waiting in ambush for a creeping lizard, close at hand, with an arrow. -Pliny the Elder, 1st century ad This statue of the Apollo Sauroktonos may be the one Pliny the Elder saw in the 1st century ad. The complete sculpture most likely showed the young god pulling back a slender laurel tree with his raised left hand, while holding an arrow at waist level with his right, poised to strike the lizard creeping up the tree. Two Roman marble copies preserve the complete composition: one in the Louvre, the other in the Vatican. The museum's sculpture is the only known life-size bronze version of the Apollo Sauroktonos. Technical features such as the way the sculpture was cast and repaired in antiquity, the copper inlays of the lips and nipples, and the stone insert for the right eye (the left is a restoration) are consistent with a date in the 4th century bc. However, technically it may have been possible to produce such a work in the Hellenistic period. The Apollo Sauroktonos is thought to have been created by praxiteles about 350 bc. Androgynous sensuality and languid, gracefully curved poses are hallmarks of his style. The finest large classical Greek statues were bronzes, but few have survived. If this sculpture is a product of praxiteles' workshop, it is the only large Greek bronze statue that can be attributed to a Greek sculptor. praxiteles was widely popular in his day. His famous Aphrodite of Cnidus (late 360s bc) introduced the life-size nude female figure to Western art.license:
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8title: Praxiteles Apollo the Python-Slayer - 2004.30.a - Cleveland Museum of Art
artist: praxiteles
date: c. 350 BC
medium: Bronze, copper and stone inlay
dimensions: Overall: 150 x 50.3 x 66.8 cm (59 1/16 x 19 13/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
current location: institution:Cleveland Museum of Art
source: link
credit: link
description:
Although praxiteles was more successful, and therefore more famous for his marble sculptures, he nevertheless also created very beautiful works in bronze. He made a youthful Apollo called the Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer), waiting in ambush for a creeping lizard, close at hand, with an arrow. -Pliny the Elder, 1st century ad This statue of the Apollo Sauroktonos may be the one Pliny the Elder saw in the 1st century ad. The complete sculpture most likely showed the young god pulling back a slender laurel tree with his raised left hand, while holding an arrow at waist level with his right, poised to strike the lizard creeping up the tree. Two Roman marble copies preserve the complete composition: one in the Louvre, the other in the Vatican. The museum's sculpture is the only known life-size bronze version of the Apollo Sauroktonos. Technical features such as the way the sculpture was cast and repaired in antiquity, the copper inlays of the lips and nipples, and the stone insert for the right eye (the left is a restoration) are consistent with a date in the 4th century bc. However, technically it may have been possible to produce such a work in the Hellenistic period. The Apollo Sauroktonos is thought to have been created by praxiteles about 350 bc. Androgynous sensuality and languid, gracefully curved poses are hallmarks of his style. The finest large classical Greek statues were bronzes, but few have survived. If this sculpture is a product of praxiteles' workshop, it is the only large Greek bronze statue that can be attributed to a Greek sculptor. praxiteles was widely popular in his day. His famous Aphrodite of Cnidus (late 360s bc) introduced the life-size nude female figure to Western art.license:
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9title: Angelica Kauffmann Praxiteles Giving Phryne his Statue of Cupid - 59.008 - Rhode Island School of Design Museum
artist: Angelica Kauffman
date: 1794
source: link
credit: link
license:Public domain
title: George Childs after John Flaxman, Venus of Cnidos, by Praxiteles, published 1829, NGA 59447
artist:
George Childs after John Flaxmandate: published 1829
medium: lithograph [proof before letters]
current location: Institution:National Gallery of Art
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credit: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art. Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy.
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