This exceptionally fine bronze statuette is said to have been found on Cyprus; it is nonetheless a purely Greek work. In style, it reflects the innovations of Polykleitos, a contemporary of Pheidias and Myron, whose major achievements were in bronze. Particularly noteworthy here is the masterful articulation of the body.
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Title:Bronze youth
Period:Classical
Date:late 5th century BCE
Culture:Greek
Medium:Bronze
Dimensions:6 1/4in. (15.9cm)
Classification:Bronzes
Credit Line:The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Object Number:74.51.5679
Said to have been found near the temple of Apollo Hylates near Kourion, Cyprus (Cesnola 1878, p. 344-345)
1874-75, found on Cyprus; until 1876, with Luigi Palma di Cesnola; acquired in 1876, purchased from L.P. di Cesnola.
Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 5014, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 87, pp. 56–58, New York: Gilliss Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1917. Handbook of the Classical Collection. p. 114, fig. 72, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1927. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 145–46, fig. 101, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1930. Handbook of the Classical Collection. pp. 145–46, fig. 101, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1950. The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks, 3rd edn. pp. 57, 355, fig. 40, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Richter, Gisela M. A. 1953. Handbook of the Greek Collection. pp. 95, 235, pl. 75a, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 369, p. 233, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Picón, Carlos A. 2007. Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome no. 300, pp. 260, 466, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hemingway, Seán. 2021. How to Read Greek Sculpture. no. 19, pp. 28, 96–97, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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