Head of Alexander, found near the Erechtheion of the Athens Acropolis in 1886. Thought to be an original work of the sculptor Leochares, made around 330 BC. Acropolis Museum, Athens.
Head of Alexander the Great, from Cyme (Namurt),Turkey. Marble.Hellenistic,late 3rd century BC.Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
Marble head of Alexander From Pergamon,Turkey.First half of 2nd century BC.Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
Imperial, ca. A.D. 120–160 A.D.,Roman, Marble, H. from base: 19 in. (48.2 cm.),Stone Sculpture
Zeus Ammon’s sanctuary at the Oasis of Siwa in the Libyan desert was already famous when Alexander the Great made his pilgrimage there in 331 B.C. Alexander’s visit to Siwa was a pivotal moment in the young king’s extraordinary life. The details are shrouded in mystery, but legend has it that the Oracle proclaimed him son of Zeus Ammon and answered Alexander’s questions favorably, “to his heart’s desire.”This powerful portrait of the god combines a classical Greek image of the bearded Zeus with the ram’s horns of the Egyptian Ammon, an attribute with which Alexander himself was sometimes represented. It may well reflect a sculpture created in Egypt in the years after Alexander’s historic visit to Siwa.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Statue of Alexander, Greek, 200 – 100 B.C, Marble
Ancient authors record that Alexander the Great was so pleased with portraits of himself created by Lysippos that he decreed no other sculptor would make his image. Although this statement is probably exaggerated, Lysippos did make some of the most powerful and lasting images of Alexander. It also shows Alexander understood the propagandistic importance of his image and the need to control it.
Lysippos’s statue “Alexander with a Lance,” made in the 320s B.C., portrayed Alexander armed and naked, echoing the great heroes of Greek mythology like Achilles with whom he identified. He stood with his weight on one leg, one arm extended and holding a spear, the other hanging down at his side. This broken statuette, carved in the 100s B.C., is a small-scale variant of that original. One of numerous surviving posthumous images of Alexander made well into the Roman period, this statuette may have been a private devotional image related to the worship of Alexander as a god. Its owners certainly valued it, since the statuette was repaired and reworked in antiquity.
Source : The J. Paul Getty Museum
Marble head of Alexander the Great, found in the Kerameikos, Athens
c. 300 BC. Height 0,28 m.
Marble head of Alexander the Great, found in the Kerameikos, Athens c. 300 BC.
Head of Alexander the Great, made of pentelic marble. It was found in the Kerameikos, Athens. Alexander wears the lion’s pelt, a common iconographic feature in depictions of the young king on coins, which hints at his descent from the mythical hero Herakles. The letters on Alexander’s face were carved at a later period.
Portrait of Alexander the Great
Most likely a work of the sculptor Leochares, 340-330 BC
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Bust of Alexander the great – Pierre II LeGros known as le jeune(1666-1719)
This marble bust depicts Alexander the Great wearing a helmet reminiscent of his status of chief of the Macedonian armies. Wrapped in a lion’s skin, an attribute of Heracles (Hercules), he also measures up to the twelve labors of this half mortal and half-deity hero, in light of his multiple military triumphs.
Pierre II Legros (1666-1719)
Pierre II Legros Born in Paris in 1666, Pierre II Legros also known as “Le Jeune”, started his apprenticeship with his father Pierre Legros (1629-1714), sculptor to the king.
In 1689, he won the Grand Prix de Rome. In 1690, he became a boarder at the Académie de France in Rome and spent four years copying antiquities and great masters of the past.After his term at the Académie ended, he remained in Rome to pursue his career.With other local sculptors already immersed in Roman artistic circles, such as Pierre-Etienne Monnot (1657-1733), he worked for wealthy patrons, whether private or religious, and for several religious communitities. He died in Rome in 1719.
Raku ceramic “Alexander The Great” greek art nanouris ( Via Jayshree Rai, Pinterest)
Hellenistic, Alexander the Great in a Himation, after an original by Lysippos, late 4th or 3rd century BCE
(Source : Nec Spe, Nec Metu, Tumblr)
Head of Alexander the Great © BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk
Head of Alexander the Great
Category: Sculpture in the round, heads / masks
Date: Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)
Provenance: Lower Egypt, Alexandria, Kom El-Dekka (Excavations of the Polish Expedition)
Material: Rock, marble
Height: 17 cm;
Width:10 cm
Description
A Roman replica of a marble head of Alexander the Great. It was found in Kom El Dekka in Alexandria by the Polish expedition.
The head bears the traditional features of the portraits of Alexander the Great which were mooraged by the sculptor Lysippos. The head is inclined to the right, the eyes are gazing meditatively into the distant horizon.
Antiquities Museum/Greco-Roman Museum
When the Macedon king Alexander the Great, who lived between 356 and 323 BC, ascended to the throne, he was not even twenty. The legendary commander, who died at the age of 33, has never been forgotten during the twenty-three centuries passed since then, thanks to his glorious and great conquests during a short period of kingdom. He overthrew the Persian Empire and established a great empire extending from Macedonia to India. The cities founded by Alexander, who spent most of his life in Asia, as military bases turned into cultural and commercial centers later and played an important role in the spread of the Ancient Greek culture up to India.
The era of Alexander the Great, of which artistic influences can be followed as well, was a transition period between the periods of Classical Art and Hellenistic Art.
The Head of Alexander the Great, dated to the 2nd century BC, was found during excavations at the Lower Agora in Pergamon (Bergama).
His head is inclined towards his shoulder, the lock of hair from the front of his head, slightly pulled back, resembles a lion’s mane and his hair is irregularly waved in both sides. This is the hairstyle of Alexander the Great. All of the aspects such as his heavy eyelids and round eyes, thick eyelashes, slightly open mouth that does not show his teeth are characteristics of the statues of Alexander the Great. This is the style of portraits made by the sculptor Lysippos, who lived in the 4th century BC and led the transition between the Classic Art and the Hellenistic Art. The artist worked for Alexander the Great and he was the only sculptor of Alexander. The deep forehead lines call the big problems faced by the king despite his youth to the mind. This work is reflecting the typical characteristics of the Pergamon sculpture school during the era of King Eumenes II.
Istanbul Archaeological Museums
Late Antique 5th century AD head of Alexander the Great stolen from Ostia Museum inv. 468
Sources: Bread and Circuses – Adventures in the later Roman Empire by historian Adrian Murdoch
Statue and bust of Alexander the Great in the Istanbul archaeological museum. The extraordinary bust was found by archaeologists working at Pergamum.
He was by his nature a lover of literature, of learning and of reading. Thinking, and calling the Iliad “A portable treasury of military excellence”, he took up the copy corrected by Aristotle, which people call the casket copy, and always kept it with a dagger under his pillow.
~Plutarch~
Portrait of Alexander, Marble, Pella, 3rd century B.C.
Archaeological Museum of Pella
Bust of Alexander the Great, from Delos, now in the Louvre, Paris
Source : Alexander The Great by Philip Freeman
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