Artist Unknown Greek Philosopher Socrates Alabaster Bust Head Statue Sculpture Décor 5.9 inches

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At seventeen years of age, he joined Plato’s Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. D. Pandermalis, Untersuchungen zu den klassischen Strategenköpfen (Freiburg i. Breisgau, 1969), 26; T. Potts, Civilization: Ancient Treasures from the British Museum (Exhibition Catalogue, Canberra/Melbourne, 1990), 144-5, no. 70; The owner of the bust, Mark Farley, who gave me a private tour of his jaw-dropping film and TV prop house Farley’s recently, gave me some low down on this striking antique. It is in fact a late 17th Century Italian piece, Heroic (size) white marble and porphyry bust of a philosopher with gilt bronze robes. I enjoyed meeting the Gladiator bust in person – which sits loud and proud in Farley’s – suppliers of fine antique furniture, art and action props to the theatre, television and film industries

G. M. A. Richter, The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks (New Haven, 1929), 175-6, fig. 624 (19302), 233-5, fig. 624; Townley's description; ‘A head bearing a helmet, and placed upon a Terminus, with the name of Pericles, thus inscribed upon it, ПΕΡΙΚΛΕΣ. The portrait of this great warrior and legislator was not known in these days, until this Terminus, and another similar to it , but of a more modern style of sculpture, were discovered 1780 at the pianella [sic, for Pianura] di Cassio before mentioned’ (TY 12/3, street drawing room 20). The inscription actually reads ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ. Before the Hellenistic period (i.e. after Alexander’s death in 323 BC), ancient Greek sculptors did not strive to create realistic portraits. They tended to create more idealized representations, such as the famous bust of Themistocles. Greek portraits probably did not reproduce the subject accurately. The Greeks were not like the Romans, who excelled when it came to the creation of realistic portraits of people. In ancient art, double herms were a common statue type. While in Greece they were displayed in public rooms, in the Roman empire they were shown in private spaces. [ citation needed] Thus, the combination of the two philosophers here owed something to the personal inclinations of the person who commissioned it, even if it is not clear why these two philosophers were linked in particular. Probably it has to do with the fact that they were both forced to commit suicide. The presentation of philosophers (and poets) as double herms was the most common use of this genre. This parallel presentation is also seen in literature, for example in the Parallel Lives of Plutarch. Mark bought it in 1995 from Mayfair antique dealers Mallet, London. They also have a New York showroom.

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Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. E. Voutiras, Studien zu Interpretation und Stil griechischer Porträts des 5. und frühen 4. JHS (Bonn, 1980), 99; He would lead Macedon against Rome in the First and Second Macedonian Wars, losing both but allying with Rome in the Roman-Seleucid War towards the end of his reign. He also believed that how humans tend to remember things that they have had no experience of in their lifetimes — referred to as the principle of recollection — proves this hypothesis.

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A park in the neighborhood was once a port for sand and stone. It was a landfill and dumping ground until local sculptor Mark di Suvero turned it into a public park in 1985. It was opened to the public a year later. Today, it is one of the largest outdoor spaces in New York City devoted to sculpture. The statue has remained a landmark of Long Island City for over a century, and its location in the park is a popular destination for tourists. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Book II, Chapter 5, Section 19". Archived from the original on 24 January 2022 . Retrieved 24 January 2022. However, Philip’s reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of the Roman Republic.