Hellenistic - Fragmentary Head
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Frames: Size listed always refers to the paper size, inclusive of any white border shown. As the width of the frame is approximately 2cm, a framed print will be slightly wider/taller than the given size.
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A print of a Hellenistic fragmentary head — the surviving face of a classical statue whose body is lost, of the kind produced in the late Greek workshops of the 4th to 1st centuries BC and copied extensively by Roman marble cutters.
Hellenistic sculpture is the period between Alexander's conquests and the consolidation of the Roman Empire — roughly 323 to 31 BC — and it is in many ways the technical high point of Greek figurative art. Expression became more legible (the furrowed brow of Laocoön, the anguished face of the Dying Gaul); realism extended to age and individual feature; and the portrait, as opposed to the generalised type, came into its own as a genre. Most of this sculpture survives through fragments, and the fragmentary head — severed from its body, isolated on a pedestal, taking a weight of attention out of all proportion to its size — has become the typical form in which the period is encountered in museums.
From the Renaissance onward the fragment has been a generative form for European sculpture rather than a diminished version of an ideal whole.
- Museum-grade Giclée print
Museum-grade Giclée printing: The gold standard for gallery art prints.
- Weight: 200 g/m2
- Material: 100% FSC® certified paper
- Finish: Matte, natural white
- Inks: Premium archival, water-based
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
Free framing service: Expertly assembled in a dust-free environment, arriving ready-to-hang.
- 2cm wide, 2.2cm deep
- Material: Lightweight FSC® certified ash wood
- Finish: Smooth satin laminate, or uncoated wood grain (Natural)
- Glaze: Shatterproof Perspex
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
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