The "Medusa Rondanini"
Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM, processed in Lightroom.
Inv. Nr. 252.
Glyptothek München - Room II, Room of the Faun
Wikipedia (edited): "The Medusa Rondanini may be a Roman copy of a classical work of the fifth century BCE, a model attributed to one or another Athenian sculptor of the age of Phidias. Alternatively, it may have been modelled after a classicising Hellenistic work of the late fourth century BCE. If it is of the fifth century, Janer Danforth Belson has pointed out, it is the first of the "beautiful gorgoneion" type to appear in Greek art by more than a century, and unparalleled in any contemporaneous representation of the Medusa head. Martin Robertson, following Furtwängler's attribution to Phidias, remarked that it would be unlikely for the beautiful face of the Medusa to be juxtaposed with the beautiful face of the goddess, whose gorgoneion retained its fearful archaic appearance."
It seems then, that the often-met attribution of the original to Phidias is unlikely to be accurate.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa_Rondanini
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa_Rondanini
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptothek_(München)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptothek
www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/index.php/de/glyptothek
www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/index.php/en/glyptothek-en
The "Medusa Rondanini"
Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM, processed in Lightroom.
Inv. Nr. 252.
Glyptothek München - Room II, Room of the Faun
Wikipedia (edited): "The Medusa Rondanini may be a Roman copy of a classical work of the fifth century BCE, a model attributed to one or another Athenian sculptor of the age of Phidias. Alternatively, it may have been modelled after a classicising Hellenistic work of the late fourth century BCE. If it is of the fifth century, Janer Danforth Belson has pointed out, it is the first of the "beautiful gorgoneion" type to appear in Greek art by more than a century, and unparalleled in any contemporaneous representation of the Medusa head. Martin Robertson, following Furtwängler's attribution to Phidias, remarked that it would be unlikely for the beautiful face of the Medusa to be juxtaposed with the beautiful face of the goddess, whose gorgoneion retained its fearful archaic appearance."
It seems then, that the often-met attribution of the original to Phidias is unlikely to be accurate.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa_Rondanini
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa_Rondanini
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptothek_(München)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptothek
www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/index.php/de/glyptothek
www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de/index.php/en/glyptothek-en