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Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, also known as the Hermes of Praxiteles or the Hermes of Olympia is an ancient Greek sculpture of Hermes and the infant Dionysus discovered in 1877 in the ruins of the Temple of Hera, Olympia, in Greece.
Medallion representing Praxiteles. Praxiteles (/ p r æ k ˈ s ɪ t ɪ l iː z /; Greek: Πραξιτέλης) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue.
3/4 left view of the head. At 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, the statue shows a nude young man with a chlamys on his shoulder and left forearm. It is a variant of the Andros type; [3] the Andros example has the chlamys and a serpent twined round the tree-support, with the tree and serpent allowing its definite identification as Hermes as psychopompus; it is directly influenced by the Hermes and the ...
In these works, the pelvis is no longer axial with the vertical statue as in the archaic style of earlier Greek sculpture before Kritios Boy. Contrapposto can be clearly seen in the Roman copies of the statues of Hermes and Heracles. A famous example is the marble statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus in Olympia by Praxiteles.
Statue of Hermes wearing the petasos and a voyager's cloak, and carrying the caduceus and a purse; Roman copy after a Greek original (Vatican Museums) Another object is the caduceus, a staff with two intertwined snakes, sometimes crowned with a pair of wings and a sphere. [33]
An Aesop's fable makes fun of a statue of Hermes. When a pious dog offers to "anoint" it, the god hastily assures his worshipper that this is not necessary. [13] In the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees the main character unearths an important object by digging beneath an object called both a "berm" and a "herm". It is described as ...
Breaking down the legend of the head statues, or the Testa Di Moro, in Season Two of "The White Lotus," and what they all mean.
The earliest text to mention the Aphrodite is Pliny the Elder's Natural History, [2] which reports that Praxiteles carved two sculptures of Aphrodite, one clothed and one nude; the clothed one was bought by the people of Kos and the Knidians bought the nude one. [3] The statue was set up as the cult statue for the Temple of Aphrodite at Knidos.