Hermes and the Infant Dionysos - IV
Hermes holding the infant Dionysos in his left arm. The mythological subjects relating to the custody of the child Dionysus to the nymphs is very popular in Greek and Roman art. Evidence of this myth are attested in vase painting, sculpture, bas-reliefs etc.
The finishing and polishing of the back and the buttocks of Hermes is much coarser than that of the front part. This suggests that this copy was meant to be housed in a niche or exposed against a wall.
Marble sculpture
Height 2,15 m
Late classical Stile
Original sculpture attributed to Praxiteles [?]
Copy ca. 100 BC - ca. 100 AD
From Elis, Greece
Olympia, Archaeological Museum
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos - IV
Hermes holding the infant Dionysos in his left arm. The mythological subjects relating to the custody of the child Dionysus to the nymphs is very popular in Greek and Roman art. Evidence of this myth are attested in vase painting, sculpture, bas-reliefs etc.
The finishing and polishing of the back and the buttocks of Hermes is much coarser than that of the front part. This suggests that this copy was meant to be housed in a niche or exposed against a wall.
Marble sculpture
Height 2,15 m
Late classical Stile
Original sculpture attributed to Praxiteles [?]
Copy ca. 100 BC - ca. 100 AD
From Elis, Greece
Olympia, Archaeological Museum