Bronze - Magna Grecia 3D

Motya Charioteer

As it is possible to notice by the Cypriot monetary issues, the syncretism between Heracles and Melqart testifies the presence of a beardless head, only covered by a lion skin, where Greek stylistic features seem to prevail over Phoenician ones. As regards the Heracles of Cyprus, Paolo Moreno was the only scholar who tried to describe a reconstruction of the missing parts, “this reconstruction was conducted taking into account not only the clamps and the signs of the bronze cover remained on the marble, but also the compositional, proportional and perspectival anomalies of the figure, in their complexity and unity”. It seems pertinent to integrally share the hypothesis of Moreno, which we already formulated independently a few years ago, after an autoptic reconnaissance of the statue. As a matter of fact, the interpretation of the character represented in the statue of Mothya has to be based only on the integration of the iconographic elements which have been lost.

Dancing Satyr

The “Dancing Satyr”, preserved in the homonymous museum of Mazara del Vallo, is a bronze statue, a copy from the Hellenistic period, it is not intact, and it measures over the original one. Contrary to the usual, the interpretation of this sculpture is not a matter of doubt: it consists of a satyr, caught in a moment of orgiastic ecstasy during the ritual in honour of Dionysus.

Head of Basel

Magna Grecia 3D Testa di Basilea Zeus Eleutherios primo piano

The “Head of Basel”, preserved in the archaeological museum of Reggio Calabria with the famous “Head of the Philosopher”, was part of a ferry’s freight which used to operate in the Strait of Messina, and it was boarded as metallic scrap. The studies on the load of the shipwreck confirmed the dating of the wreckage: between the end of the fifth and the fourth century BC, with a terminus ante quem of the 375 BC.

Head of a Philosopher

Magna Grecia 3D Testa del Filosofo da Porticello Pitagora di Samo

The statue of Pythagoras of Samos is preserved in fragments in the Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria, and it comes from the “Porticello shipwreck of Villa San Giovanni”. It was part of the cargo of a ship that commuted between the shores of the Strait of Messina, and that sunk in the fourth century BC. In this ship’s cargo there were pieces of valuable statues, which were purposely broken in order to be sold as bronze ingots to remelt.

Riace Bronzes

Magna Grecia 3D Bronzi di Riace Fratricidi Polinice

The Riace Bronzes, masterpiece of classical art, were realised in Argos in the Peloponnese, in the fifth century BC. Then, in the first century AD, the statues were brought to Rome, where they were restored, and today the two sculptures are preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria.

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16 April 2024

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