“It’s so quiet that you don’t think of it as so radical, but actually it’s very rare and unusual to show a god sleeping.”
Curator Seán Hemingway on an early bronze statue of Eros sleeping.
Enamored
Séan Hemingway
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Contributors
Séan Hemingway
John A. And Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge, Department of Greek and Roman Art
John A. And Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge, Department of Greek and Roman Art
Photography by Juan Trujillo
Drawing of cast sections of the bronze statue of sleeping Eros by Allia Benner.
X-radiograph images courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation
Art Mentioned
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
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