Harvard Art Museums
Portrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes
- Date
- 1st century BCE-2nd century CE
- Medium
- Leaded bronze
- Culture
- Graeco-Roman
- Department
- Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
- Institution
- Harvard Art Museums
This remarkable statuette is a small-scale copy of a lost life-size bronze statue that honored the Athenian orator and statesman Demosthenes. It illustrates a trend toward realism in Greek portraiture of the third century BCE and offers a posthumous psychological interpretation of the eloquent but ill-fated champion of Athenian liberty against Macedonian dominance.
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