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Greek

Male figure (Bebenburg Youth), 300-200 BCE

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Greek

Title

Male figure (Bebenburg Youth)

Year

300-200 BCE

Medium

Marble

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • parian marble

Dimensions

48.3 x 19.5 x 11.1 cm (19 x 7 11/16 x 4 3/8 inches)

Place

Knidos

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund and Special Gift Fund

Object Number

23.342

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selected Works

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Classical Sculpture

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Ancient Greek and Roman Galleries

Surviving traces of reddish pigment still visible in the hair of this figure reflect the fact that most ancient statues were originally vividly painted. In addition to the curls of the hair, the eyebrows, eyelashes, eyes, and mouth, and perhaps even the skin would have been painted, lending this small-scale figure a more life-like appearance. This small-scale figure could have been a tomb statue or an athletic victor’s dedication to a god.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Male figure (Bebenburg Youth) with the accession number of 23.342. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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