The New York Sleeping Eros: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Ancient Restoration
The Bronze Statue of Sleeping Eros in the Metropolitan Museum has long been recognized as one of the finest bronze statues to survive from antiquity. It was first published by Gisela Richter as an original Hellenistic sculpture or very close replica dated between 250 and 150 B.C. Many subsequent sch...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:techne_1266 https://doi.org/10.4000/techne.1266 urn:doi:10.4000/techne.1266 en https://journals.openedition.org/techne/1266 2019-12-19T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/l8gx https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The New York Sleeping Eros: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Ancient Restoration Technè C2RMF info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2750-6185 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1254-7867 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/techne Hemingway, Seán Stone, Richard restauration antique Aphrodite Éros dieu de l’Amour sculptures en bronze hellénistiques ancient repair Aphrodite Eros god of love Hellenistic bronze sculpture The Bronze Statue of Sleeping Eros in the Metropolitan Museum has long been recognized as one of the finest bronze statues to survive from antiquity. It was first published by Gisela Richter as an original Hellenistic sculpture or very close replica dated between 250 and 150 B.C. Many subsequent scholars tend to agree with Richter’s assessment although not her precise dating. Others believe it to be a very fine Roman copy of one of the most popular sculptures ever made in Roman Imperial times known from hundreds of copies, variants and adaptations. This article presents a new assessment based on careful scientific and technical examinations of the statue itself and a close study of other existing sculptures of this type. The research supports Richter’s identification of the statue as a Hellenistic work, but also makes apparent that it was restored in antiquity, most likely in the Early Imperial period. Consideration of the cult and mythology of Eros, other major Late Classical and Hellenistic sculptures, as well as the different meanings of the Sleeping Eros in later periods, enable a more cogent understanding of the original display of the Metropolitan Museum’s bronze statue of Sleeping Eros and its significance in antiquity. L’Éros endormi conservé au Metropolitan Museum of Art est reconnu depuis longtemps parmi les plus beaux grands bronzes antiques parvenus jusqu’à nous. Gisela Richter, la première à l’avoir publié, le considérait comme un original de la période hellénistique ou une réplique fidèle, et le datait entre 250 et 150 av. J.-C. Depuis, de nombreux auteurs se sont accordés sur cette identification tout en ayant quelques divergences sur la datation. D’autres pensent qu’il s’agit d’une très bonne copie romaine d’une des sculptures les plus prisées de la période romaine impériale, connue par des centaines de copies, variantes et adaptations. Cet article présente une nouvelle évaluation fondée sur des examens scientifiques et techniques approfondis de la statue elle-même et sur une observation minutieuse d’autres sculptures du même type. Ces travaux tendent à confirmer l’hypothèse hellénistique avancée par Gisela Richter, mais révèlent également que la statue a fait l’objet d’une restauration dans l’Antiquité, sans doute au début de la période impériale. Le culte et la mythologie d’Éros, d’autres sculptures importantes de la période hellénistique et de l’Antiquité tardive, ainsi que les différentes significations de l’Éros endormi à des époques ultérieures éclairent notre compréhension de l’installation d’origine du bronze actuellement à New York et de ses enjeux dans l’Antiquité. |
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The Bronze Statue of Sleeping Eros in the Metropolitan Museum has long been recognized as one of the finest bronze statues to survive from antiquity. It was first published by Gisela Richter as an original Hellenistic sculpture or very close replica dated between 250 and 150 B.C. Many subsequent scholars tend to agree with Richter’s assessment although not her precise dating. Others believe it to be a very fine Roman copy of one of the most popular sculptures ever made in Roman Imperial times known from hundreds of copies, variants and adaptations. This article presents a new assessment based on careful scientific and technical examinations of the statue itself and a close study of other existing sculptures of this type. The research supports Richter’s identification of the statue as a Hellenistic work, but also makes apparent that it was restored in antiquity, most likely in the Early Imperial period. Consideration of the cult and mythology of Eros, other major Late Classical and Hellenistic sculptures, as well as the different meanings of the Sleeping Eros in later periods, enable a more cogent understanding of the original display of the Metropolitan Museum’s bronze statue of Sleeping Eros and its significance in antiquity. |
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The New York Sleeping Eros: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Ancient Restoration |
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