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Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.Ĭornell Collections of Antiquities Format: Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. This is one of 111 drawings bequeathed to the British Museum by Rosi. Goldwin Smith Hall ground floor 21 ID Number:ģ2 (with pedestal) x 24 (without pedestal) x 36.8 x 20.7 (centimeters) Iris appearing to Hypnos, the god of sleep illustration to Ovids Metamorphoses, XI. This pendant is an extremely accurate 3D laser-scanned, 3D printed, and hand-cast reduction of the British Museums first-or-second century AD bronze Head. Print run of 1500.August Gerber (Cologne, Germany) (reproduction) Single territory for trade global for academic. This bronze head has wings sprouting from his temples and the hair is elaborately arranged, some tying in knots and some hanging freely from his head.

Print and/or digital / eBook, including for use in on-line academic databases. One of the most famous works of art featuring Hypnos is a bronze head of Hypnos himself, now kept in the British Museum in London. Statue types represented Hypnos either as an adolescent or, in some variants, as an even younger child.
BRONZE HEAD OF HYPNOS SERIES
Image for Magazines and Journals Book use The bronze head that inspired this painting belongs with a series of similar heads and figures found mostly in the western Mediterranean, particularly in France, Italy and Spain. Hypnos is usually shown as a running young man with wings. Identified as Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, this winged head of a youth dates from the 4th century BC. The complete Greek statue, carved in marble, now resides in the Prado Museum, Madrid. He seems to have been a subject particularly popular in the western Mediterranean, as a number of other heads and figures of Hypnos have been found in Spain, France and Italy. This is the replica of a Roman bronze head that copies a known Greek statue. Image for Website or Social Media Magazines and Journals For many years this winged head was thought to be an original Greek bronze, but it is now known to be a Roman copy.

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