Cleveland Museum of Art

Eros, the God of Love

Date

1–100 CE

Medium

marble

Culture

Italy, Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This is a Roman copy of the statue of Eros by Lysippus, the last of the great sculptors of Greece. He worked in the second half of the fourth century and was court sculptor to Alexander the Great. In the complete statue the god stood naked, his head turned to the right, his hand clasping a bow. The oldest versions of Greek myth describe Eros, god of love and desire, as one of the first beings in existence.

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