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Art and Archaeology of Ancient Italy

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Identify.

Author: Siena Failla

Identify.



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Polythemus sculpture, Sperlonga Grotto, 1st cent BCE or CE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Sperlonga, myth theme (Odysseus blinding Polythemus in a cave), play on diagonal lines, energetic and dynamic composition, in a space were you would move around it and see it from different angles, over life sized, Hellenistic Baroque (play with light and shadow, movement/positions, musculature, deeply carved hair)


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