Timotheus (sculptor)

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Roman marble of Leda and the Swan (Prado)
Leda and the Swan (Yale University Art Gallery)

Timotheus (

Temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, c. 380 BC.[2]

To him is attributed[3] a sculpture of Leda and the Swan in which the queen Leda of Sparta protected a swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums[4] is said to be "after Timotheus". The theme must have been popular, judging by the more than two dozen Roman marble copies that survive.[5] The most famous version has been that in the Capitoline Museums in Rome, purchased by Pope Clement XIV from the heirs of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. A highly restored version is in the Museo del Prado, and an incomplete one is in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Notes

  1. Natural History
    36.30-31.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Timotheus" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 991.
  3. ^ The connection with Timotheus was first made by Franz Winter, (Mittheil. Arch. Athen. 1894:157-62 and pl. vi), on the basis of comparison of drapery of a Nereid or a Hygeia of Timotheus, just then being excavated at Epidaurus. (Adolf Michaelis, A Century of Archaeological Discoveries; 1908:313)
  4. ^ Inv. MC0302.
  5. ^ Richard Hamann, "Original und Kopie" Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 15 (1949, pp. 135-156) p 153.

Further reading

  • Reiche, A. "Die copien der 'Leda von Timotheos'" Antike Plastik 17 (1978:21-55).
  • Kunzl, E. and G. Horn, Die 'Hygeia' des Timotheos 1969.
  • Schorb, B. Timotheos 1965.
  • Brill's
    New Pauly
    , "Timotheus".

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