The Victorious Youth

Description

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997. — 106 p.The paucity of life-size bronze statues from classical antiquity that have survived to the present day makes each one of them an object of special interest for the scholarly community and the public alike. For that reason there has been a tendency to see each one as unique, whereas in reality they are examples of many thousands of similar statues that in antiquity were erected in public and private places. Carol Mattusch prefers to see the extant statues as representatives of specific types—gods and heroes, athletes and philosophers, rulers and statesmen, or, as may be the case with the statue discussed in this volume, victorious athletes.The Victorious Youth is part of the Getty Museum Studies on Art series, designed to introduce individual artworks or small groups of related works to a broad public with an interest in the history of art.Each monograph is written by a leading scholar and features a close discussion of its subject as well as a detailed analysis of the broader historical and cultural context in which the work was created.