Hermes Ludovisi

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The Ludovisi Hermes

The Hermes Ludovisi,

Palazzo Altemps
.

The unrestored Anzio Hermes of Ludovisi type

A variant on a somewhat reduced scale, found in

kerykeion
in his left hand.

Notes

  1. ^ Illustrated in M. Bieber, Ancient Copies, 1971, p. 41 fig.78; W. Fuchs, Die Skulptur der Griechen, 1969, fig. 73; G. Lippold, Die Griechische Plastik: Handbuch der Archäologie, 1950, VI. pt. 3.1, p. 179, pl. 63.2; Helbig, Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom 4th ed., 1963-72, no. 2326.
  2. ^ The rhetorically gesturing right arm of the Ludovisi sculpture, however, is a restoration.
  3. Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
    , reviewing Enrico Paribeni, Museo Nazionale Romano: Sculture Greche del V secolo: originali e reliche, 1953, in American Journal of Archaeology 59.1 (January 1955:74-75)
  4. ^ A suggestion first put forward by Botho Graef, "Athenakopf in Neapel", in Carl Robert, ed., Aus der anomia: archaeologische beitraege, 1890, p. 69.
  5. ^ E.g. by Amelung.
  6. ^ "This is, I believe, the earliest representation of Hermes as youthful and beardless" (C. K. Jenkins, "The Reinstatement of Myron-II" The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 50 No. 289 (April 1927:189-196) p. 190).