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Relief of Hermes and Ares

300–200 BC

Greece, 3rd Century BC

Limestone

Overall: 32.7 cm (12 7/8 in.)

Weight: 11.793 kg (26 lbs.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1927.436

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102C Greek

Description

A fine example of Hellenistic interest in violent motion.

Citations

Howard, Rossiter. "Orestes Sarcophagus and Greek Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 4 (1928): 90-87. Mentioned, p. 91. www.jstor.org

Bieber, Margarete. "Greek Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America Vol. 31, No. 3 (July 1943): 113-126. Discussed p. 123, ill fig. 10.

Bieber, Margarete. 1961. The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age Rev. ed. Columbia Bicentennial Editions and Studies. New York: Columbia University Press. P. 170, Fig. 722.

Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7-8; Plate 14 archive.org

Hoffmann, Herbert. Collecting Greek Antiquities. New York: C.N. Potter, 1971. Pp. 14-15, fig. 15.

Carter, Joseph Coleman. The Sculpture of Taras. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; new ser., v. 65, pt. 7). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975. Described p. 68, cat. 188, ill. pl. 31a.

Hadzi, Martha Leeb. Transformations in Hellenistic Art, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, February 3-March 18, 1983. [South Hadley, Mass.]: Trustees of Mount Holyoke College, 1983. P. 32, cat. 12.

Exhibition history

Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949).

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