Bust of Euripides
- Title:
- Bust of Euripides
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
1st-2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
ca. 340-330 BCE (Greek original)
- Site:
- probably Italy (original)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room 133), Cornell University
probably Italy (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0776
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 234
734 (sticker on front
"7" crossed out and replaced by "2" with pen)
717 - File Name:
- CCC_0776.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 61 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Euripides
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 66 x 40 x 29 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a bust of Euripides from the Farnese collection in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. This work gives its name to the Farnese portrait type of Euripides known from thirty or so copies. Euripides has longish, wavy hair, thinning at the front and falling in narrow locks on his high forehead. His beard is full and bushy. The playwright's gaze is cast subtly down and his nose has a prominent hump at the top of the bridge. His thin lips are pressed closed
a slight overbite is apparent. Drapery hangs from the left shoulder. Restorations to the nose and to some of the hair and drapery on the original are reflected in the cast. - Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 6135 - Bibliography:
- Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 133-140, esp. 135 no. 13, figs. 717-719
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Naples, National Archaeological Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.