Portrait of Aristotle

Ancient Greece, 100CE
Portrait of Aristotle, Ancient Greece
Portrait of Aristotle, zoomed in
32 cmPortrait of Aristotle scale comparison29.5 cm

Portrait of Aristotle is an Ancient Greek Marble Sculpture created in 100CE. It lives at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Portraits, Philosophical work and Heads. See Portrait of Aristotle in the Kaleidoscope

This marble portrait of the philosopher Aristotle was copied from a bronze sculpture made in the first or second century by Lysippos, who is considered to be one of the three most prolific and imitated artists of Classical Greece. So many copies were made of Lysippos’s work by his studio of assistants and by imitators, today it’s extremely difficult to identify which sculptures were actually made by the artist himself. Lysippos was a bit of a Grecian Jeff Koons...

Photo by MBZT, 2012

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