Title: | Hermes with Dionysos |
Context: | From Olympia |
Summary: | The baby Dionysos, in Hermes' arms, reaches to a bunch of grapes |
Sculptor: | Literary attestation to Praxiteles |
Material: | Marble |
Sculpture Type: | Free-standing statue |
Category: | Original/copies |
Style: | Late Classical |
Technique: | In-the-round |
Original or Copy: | Original (lost) |
Date: | ca. 340 BC |
Scale: | Over life-size |
Region: | Elis |
Period: | Late Classical |
Subject Description: In the Heraion at Olympia, Pausanias saw, among statuary dedications, a marble Hermes carrying the baby Dionysos, a work by Praxiteles (
Condition: Lost
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