Seated Hermes
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The bronze Seated Hermes, found at the
Le Antichità di Ercolano, 1771.[4] To protect it from Napoleonic depredations, it was packed into one of the fifty-two cases of antiquities and works of art that accompanied the Bourbon flight to Palermo in 1798. It was once again in the royal villa at Portici
in 1816 (Haskell and Penny 1981:269).
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway suggests,[6]
natural boulders "increased the idyllic aspect of the composition." The Hermes rests his hand casually on the (restored) rock, integrating the composition.
Notes
- ^ "Buried Herculaneum". 1908.
- ^ NM 5625; illustrated in Margarete Bieber, the Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, 1961:figs. 106-07.
- ^ Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, 1981, p. 267
- ^ Volume VI, 1771, pp. 113-22.
- ^ Bieber 1961:162
- Ridgway, "The Setting of Greek Sculpture" Hesperia 40.3 (July - September 1971:336-356) pp 346f.
References
- Haskell, Francis, and Nicholas Penny, 1981. Taste and the Antique: the Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (Yale University Press), cat. no. 62, pp 267–269.
- Mattusch, Carol C. 2005. The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Life and Afterlife of a Sculpture Collection. (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum), esp. chapter 5 and pp. 88–89, 216–222, and fig. 2.43.
- Robertson, Martin, 1975. A History of Greek Art (Cambridge University Press)