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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Unknown Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Roman Creator Dates/Places: Roman Republic and Empire Creator Name-CRT: Roman Creator Name: Skopas Creator Qualifier: after Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Mediterranean Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: Greek; fl. 4th cen. B.C. Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient Creator Active Place: Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient Creator Name-CRT: Skopas Creator Dates/Places: Ancient Greece Early Western World,Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient Creator Name-CRT: Greek Title: Statue of Meleager Title Type: preferred View: Front view Creation Start Date: -5 Creation End Date: -4 Creation Date: Roman Period of Greece, c. 50 B.C. Creation Place: Early Western World,Roman Republic and Empire Object Type: Sculpture Materials and Techniques: marble Dimensions: H.: 173 cm (68-5/16 in.); Max. w.: 73.7 cm (29 in.); Max. depth: 55.2 cm (21-3/4 in.) AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1972.935 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: Meleager was a young hunter who led a band of men and his beloved Atalanta against a great wild boar that was ravaging the countryside of Calydon. Meleager killed the beast, but a quarrel over the spoils ensued and the youthful hero killed his mother's brothers. His mother, Althaea, proceeded to engineer her son's death by burning a branch that had been his means to immortality. This statue is an impressive, early copy of an original attributed to the sculptor Skopas that belongs to the decade before the middle of the fourth century B.C. The original was probably made in hollow-cast bronze. Context: Roman copy of a fourth-century B.C. Greek original attributed to Skopas. During the second and first centuries B.C. the Romans conquered the cities and kingdoms that made up the Greek world; however, they promptly turned to Greece for much of their artistic inspiration. Educated Romans spoke Greek, studied with Greek scholars in Athens and Ionia, and copied Greek styles in writing, speaking, architecture, painting, and sculpture. They removed original art from the Greek world to decorate their privateand public buildings, and when demand outstripped supply, they commissioned copies of Greek originals. Sculptures with mythological references were sought because they bespoke educated and cultured Roman patrons who placed sculpture in their gardens, baths, and living rooms according to the meanings they wanted to convey. AMICA ID: AIC_.1972.935 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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