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Portrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes
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This remarkable statuette is a small-scale copy of a lost life-size bronze statue that honored the Athenian orator and statesman Demosthenes. It illustrates a trend toward realism in Greek portraiture of the third century BCE and offers a posthumous psychological interpretation of the eloquent but ill-fated champion of Athenian liberty against Macedonian dominance.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Dr. Jacob Hirsch Geneva (by 1935) sold; to the Herbert N. Straus family New York City (by 1939). John W. Straus (by 1997) gift; to Harvard University Art Museums 2007.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of John W. Straus in honor of David Mitten
Title: Portrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes
Description:
This remarkable statuette is a small-scale copy of a lost life-size bronze statue that honored the Athenian orator and statesman Demosthenes.
It illustrates a trend toward realism in Greek portraiture of the third century BCE and offers a posthumous psychological interpretation of the eloquent but ill-fated champion of Athenian liberty against Macedonian dominance.
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