A flowering acanthus plant carved in low relief occupies one of the long sides while on the other in higher relief two female figures with billowing garments surmount a silenus herm.
Neo attic art.
The body below is almost completely concealed beneath the voluminous toga.
Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods.
Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods.
The themes are drawn from the world of dionysus.
It is sosibios only known work.
A fine example of classicizing art this marble pillar bears on all four sides reliefs in the neo attic style.
A neo attic krater in the metropolitan museum of art round trip to hades in the eastern red medici vase returns to the uffizi floine the mantle dancer in enistic period glorification of a pair of rare palace size capodimonte vases athenian the tower of pisa and piazza dei miracoli.
Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods.
The veiled head is separately made no doubt by a greek and is an example of neo attic sculpture at its warmest as can be seen in the subtle modulations of the surface.
Art describing a late hellenistic style of bas relief sculpture.
It is attributed by signature to sosibios a greek sculptor who was active in rome during the end of the roman republic and is dated to approximately 50 bce.
The sosibios vase is a neo attic marble krater of the hellenistic period.