Young man with laurel wreath
Description: | Young man with laurel wreath The head of a young man, whose oval face with the low forehead, the almond-shaped, flat eyes, the pointed nose, the closed, smiling mouth and the protruding chin are the characteristic features of the Cyprical-Archic style of the beginning of the 5th centuryv.BC has, comes from a life -size votive statue.A series of small, schematic hunchback frames the face, a laurel wreath above;On the top of the head, the hairstyle is formed by radial strands out of the vertebrae, which are summarized in a roll in the neck.Bernhard-Walcher and others, the Cypricer Antique Collection in the KHM.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna 1999 (V. Karageghis) H. 23 cm |
Period: | Archaic II |
Date: | 550 - 500 BC |
Collection: | Vienna Museum |
Provenance: | Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, Konsul, Larnaka;1869 purchase |
Accession Number: | Antikensammlung, V 1187 |