Sujet

Cast of Eros and right leg of Aphrodite from East frieze (figure 42 of Slab VI), 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Cast of Eros and right leg of Aphrodite from East frieze (figure 42 of Slab VI), 19th century. Cast is of the boy Eros watching the procession, standing against the knees of his seated mother, Aphrodite. The Parthenon Frieze, a marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon's naos, was made between c443 and 437 BCE, most likely under the direction of Phidias. This portion of the original slab is now missing. It was lost between 1787 and 1800. This cast reproduces the figure as known from a mould made in the 1780s by the French vice-consul and antiquarian Louis-Francois-Sebastien Fauvel.

Date

1800

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts, London/Paul Highnam

Notre référence

HRM26A34_383

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59.1Mo (5.5Mo) / 31.7cm x 46.7cm / 3744 x 5514 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe people male boy boys child children religious arts country religion shape naked nude sculpture art color Greek relief Greece deity God eros location century Parthenon concept mythology cast mould nudity goddess nakedness mold Plaster Cast Colour Aphrodite 19th century bas relief bas-relief Ancient Greece Greek mythology Ancient Greek nineteenth century 5th century BC high relief TGN sculpture Unknown plaster Parthenon Frieze god of love 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts alto-relievo Louis-Fran?ois-S?bastien Fauvel Fauvel Louis-Fran?ois-S?bastien Louis-Francois-Sebastien Fauvel Louis-Francois-Sebastien