COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
Collection
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AMICA ID:
AIC_.1983.584
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AIC_.1983.584
AMICA ID
false
AMICA Library Year:
1998
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1998
AMICA Library Year
false
Object Type:
Sculpture
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Sculpture
Object Type
false
Creator Nationality:
European; Southern European; Roman
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European; Southern European; Roman
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Dates/Places:
Roman Republic and Empire
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Roman Republic and Empire
Creator Dates/Places
false
Creator Name-CRT:
Roman
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Roman
Creator Name-CRT
false
Title:
Fragment of a Sarcophagus
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Fragment of a Sarcophagus
Title
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Title Type:
preferred
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preferred
Title Type
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View:
full view
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full view
View
false
Creation Date:
Imperial Period, 240/250 A.D
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Imperial Period, 240/250 A.D
Creation Date
false
Creation Start Date:
240
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240
Creation Start Date
false
Creation End Date:
250
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250
Creation End Date
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Materials and Techniques:
Marble
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Marble
Materials and Techniques
false
Subject Description:
This fragment appears to show the heroes grouped around Meleager at the time of the hunt for the Calydonian boar. Atalanta sits at the right, and Herakles is seated with his club at the left. Meleager, standing with his foot on a rock between two other companions, has been made to resemble the heroic or divine Macedonian king, Alexander the Great. Perhaps this is because the scene on the sarcophagus was based on a painting of the period around 300 to 200 B.C. in which Meleager's hunt and tragic death were equated with Alexander the Great's conquests and his own untimely demise at Babylon in 323 B.C. Alexander was a great hunter as well as a great general, and his life ended by decree of the Fates, the same three sisters who had doomed Meleager to die by hitching his thread of life to a firebrand.
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This fragment appears to show the heroes grouped around Meleager at the time of the hunt for the Calydonian boar. Atalanta sits at the right, and Herakles is seated with his club at the left. Meleager, standing with his foot on a rock between two other companions, has been made to resemble the heroic or divine Macedonian king, Alexander the Great. Perhaps this is because the scene on the sarcophagus was based on a painting of the period around 300 to 200 B.C. in which Meleager's hunt and tragic death were equated with Alexander the Great's conquests and his own untimely demise at Babylon in 323 B.C. Alexander was a great hunter as well as a great general, and his life ended by decree of the Fates, the same three sisters who had doomed Meleager to die by hitching his thread of life to a firebrand.
Subject Description
false
Creation Place:
Early Western World,Roman Republic and Empire
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Early Western World,Roman Republic and Empire
Creation Place
false
Dimensions:
W.: 96 cm (37-5/16 in.); W.: 130.5 cm (51-3/8 in); D. 22 cm (8-5/8 in.)
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W.: 96 cm (37-5/16 in.); W.: 130.5 cm (51-3/8 in); D. 22 cm (8-5/8 in.)
Dimensions
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AMICA Contributor:
The Art Institute of Chicago
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The Art Institute of Chicago
AMICA Contributor
false
Owner Location:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
Owner Location
false
ID Number:
1983.584
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1983.584
ID Number
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Credit Line:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Alsdorf Foundation
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Alsdorf Foundation
Credit Line
false
Rights:
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<a href="http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html"target="_new">http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html</a>
Rights
false
Related Image Identifier Link:
AIC_.E28260.TIF
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AIC_.E28260.TIF
Related Image Identifier Link
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