Amazon
Amazon
3D
Published 2017-03-24T10:13:03+00:00
In mythology, Amazons were mighty female warriors who fought against the Greeks. These sensual but fierce women offered Classical sculptors the opportunity to depict the bared female breast. This statue reproduces a famous Greek original depicting an Amazon wounded beneath her right breast. It was one of several statues of Amazons entered in a sculptors' competition at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in western Asia Minor, about 440 BC. The sculptor of this entry is believed to have been Kresilas. According to the ancient writer Pliny, the contest was judged by the sculptors themselves, and each voted for his own first and gave second place honors to a work by Polykleitos, making him the winner. Kresilas received third prize.
Roman copy of a Greek bronze by Cresilas of ca. 440 BC
Shot in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
| Date published | 24/03/2017 |
| Title | Amazon |
| Date | Copy of 440 BC original |
| Dimension | H: 62 x W: 21 x D: 22 in. (157.48 x 53.34 x 55.88 cm) |
| Accession | 23.92.1 |
| Period | Classical |
| Medium | Marble |
| Credit | Villa Borghese Sale, 1893, p. 59; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest. |
| Record | http://art.thewalters.org/detail/90259/amazon-2/ |
| Artist | Cresilas |
| Place | The Walters Art Museum |
