cplai | Hermes of Praxiteles created in 340-330 B.C. @cplai | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 18 hours ago
Statue of Hermes of Praxiteles at the Ancient Olympia Museum, Olympia, Greece. It is believed that this inspired the David statue by Michelangelo. Notice the artist's depiction of the scratch marks on his back, those scars were common in athletes at the time. Scraping with olive oil was the way to clean their body. Athletes got those scraping marks due to frequent cleaning about workouts.
Found during excavations at the temple of Hera in 1877. The messenger of the gods, charged by Zeus to take the infant Dionysos to the Nymphs, who were to nurse him, rests on the way having thrown his cloak over a tree trunk.
In his raised right arm he was probably holding a bunch of grapes, a symbol associated with the future god of wine. Dionysos reaches out for it.
The sculptor brought out the beauty of the figure by expressing the Olympian serenity of the god's face and the harmony of his body. The highly polished surface adds to the graceful and soft
characteristics of the art of Praxiteles.
Parian marble. Height 2,13 m.
The calves and the left foot are restored with plaster.
Statue of Hermes of Praxiteles at the Ancient Olympia Museum, Olympia, Greece. It is believed that this inspired the David statue by Michelangelo. Notice the artist's depiction of the scratch marks on his back, those scars were common in athletes at the time. Scraping with olive oil was the way to clean their body. Athletes got those scraping marks due to frequent cleaning about workouts.
Found during excavations at the temple of Hera in 1877. The messenger of the gods, charged by Zeus to take the infant Dionysos to the Nymphs, who were to nurse him, rests on the way having thrown his cloak over a tree trunk.
In his raised right arm he was probably holding a bunch of grapes, a symbol associated with the future god of wine. Dionysos reaches out for it.
The sculptor brought out the beauty of the figure by expressing the Olympian serenity of the god's face and the harmony of his body. The highly polished surface adds to the graceful and soft
characteristics of the art of Praxiteles.
Parian marble. Height 2,13 m.
The calves and the left foot are restored with plaster.
