88.5 (H) (73.5 without socle) x 42 (W) x 29 (D) cm
Description
This is a cast in bust form of a Type B portrait head of Socrates (Sokrates) housed in the Louvre. Socrates has small, thick-lidded eyes, a short, broad nose, and small lips. He has a long beard and his mid-length, wavy hair has receded significantly. Advancing age is indicated by the furrows in his forehead and the loose flesh around the cheekbones. The philosopher looks ahead or almost imperceptibly to his right. This cast was created as a bust
the original is a head that is worked at the neck for insertion into a body. The cast preserves a restoration to the tip of the nose, which has since been removed.
Type B portraits of Socrates are believed to copy the now-lost bronze seated portrait statue of the philosopher made by Lysippos in the 4th century BCE, probably several decades after Socrates' death in 399 BCE. Diogenes Laertius (Lives of the Philosophers, II.5.43) writes in the third century CE that Lysippos' Socrates was erected in the Pompeion at Athens.
Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 113 no. 13, figs. 513, 516
Condition
Some scratches
water damage on top of head
sticker flaked off the front of base
yellowish varnish
Notes
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