Hellenistic Prince

Hellenistic PrinceA print of a Hellenistic Prince the classical bronze type of an idealised nude ruler, made famous above all by the so called Terme Prince now in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome, and produced in variants through the late Greek and early Roman period. The heroic nude ruler is a distinctly Hellenistic invention. After Alexander the Great had himself portrayed in heroic nudity in imitation of the heroes and gods of epic poetry rather than the

A black and white print of Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1787–1793) — the most famous Neoclassical sculpture of the 18th century

Antique intaglio illustration depicting the alliance of Aphrodite and Dionysus

forges an unbreakable net of bronze

found him and tore him apart

not the release — and composed them as a wide X that opens outward for the viewer from every side

killed Achilles' companion Patroclus in battle

and depicts Lucifer after the fall

her body stretched in resistance

heads and legs broken off or lost over the two millennia since they were carved

the transparency of Canova's carving — wings that seem to hover

A black and white print of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's Ugolino and his Sons (1861) — the French sculptor's most ambitious work

later traditions name him the son of Ares and Aphrodite