The Art of Praxiteles. V. The last years of the sculptor (around 340 to 326 BC)
Corso Antonio
Libreria Editrice L'Erma di Bretschneider
English Text.
Roma, 2014; paperback, pp. 110, 40 col. ill., cm 17x24.
(Studia Archaeologica. 198).
series: Studia Archaeologica
ISBN: 88-913-0655-X - EAN13: 9788891306555
Subject: Monographs (Sculpture and Decorative Arts)
Period: 0-1000 (0-XI) Ancient World
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Weight: 0.37 kg
The most important works of this master considered in this essay are the Eubuleus, the Phryne of Delphi, the Leconfield Aphrodite and the Sleeping Eros.
The last works of Praxiteles are particularly important because they shed light to the crucial moment of the decline of the free city state and of the rise of the Hellenistic model of monarchy.
With these creations our artist depicted a world of beautiful tales and of mundane beauty which will be extremely influential during the golden period of the Roman classicism as well as during the post - ancient Renaissances.