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Roman (Sculptor)
Copy after Kresilas (Greek, active ca. 450 BC-420 BC) (Artist)
ca. 440 BCE (Classical-Roman)
marble
(Roman Empire , Ancient Greece )

In mythology, Amazons were mighty female warriors who fought against the Greeks. These sensual but fierce women offered Classical sculptors the opportunity to depict the bared female breast. This statue reproduces a famous Greek original depicting an Amazon wounded beneath her right breast. It was one of several statues of Amazons entered in a sculptors' competition at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus in western Asia Minor, about 440 BC. The sculptor of this entry is believed to have been Kresilas. According to the ancient writer Pliny, the contest was judged by the sculptors themselves, and each voted for his own first and gave second place honors to a work by Polyclitus, making him the winner. Kresilas received third prize.

Provenance
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Villa Borghese Sale, 1893, p. 59; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome, by 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown] [marble no. 11]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
10/14/1940 Examination examined for exhibition
6/22/1961 Treatment cleaned
7/6/1970 Treatment cleaned
1/1/1992 Treatment other
6/25/1998 Treatment other
6/28/2001 Treatment cleaned; loss compensation
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Geographies

Mediterranean (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 62 x W: 21 x D: 22 in. (157.48 x 53.34 x 55.88 cm); Base H: 23 1/2 x W: 28 1/2 x D: 28 1/2 in. (59.69 x 72.39 x 72.39 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

Location in Museum

Centre Street: Second Floor: Greek Art

Accession Number

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23.92.1

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