25 39 GREEK BRONZE NUDE ZEUS (JUPITER) HURLING A THUNDERBOLT, his left leg advancing, his right hand drawn back about to throw a thunderbolt along the sight line defined by his extended left arm. His long hair is pulled to the back of his head and tied in a chignon at the nape; his lower legs and right arm repaired in antiquity with tin. 5th -4th Century BC. H. 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm.) Ex German collection. 40 LATE HELLENISTIC BRONZE NUDE ZEUS (JUPITER) standing in a relaxed pose, his right arm bent and held out before him with the palm open, his eyes inlaid in silver. 1st Century BC/AD. H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) Ex J. K. collection, Florida. Published: J. Eisenberg, Gods and Mortals, 1989, no. 36. This type is roughly based on the colossal bronze Zeus by Myron that stood with Athena and Herakles in the Heraion on Samos. See no. 127ff. in Tiverios, "Zeus" in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologicae Classicae. 41 GREEK BRONZE KORE wearing a long pleated chiton with her himation wrapped around her waist and left arm; holding a dove with her left hand. Ca. 440 BC. H. 5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) Ex Julius Carlebach collection, New York, ca. 1965; J. K. collection, Florida. Exhibited: The Divine and the Domestic: Ancient Art from the Mediterranean, Bayly Art Museum, 1998.
Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, Volume XX - 2009
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