The “Resting Hermes” at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is a beautiful bronze sculpture found in Herculaneum.
The portrait of the messenger of the gods on a break from his constant movement – Hermes was also the conductor of souls into the afterlife – is a Roman piece from the 1st century, probably a copy of a Greek original by Lysippos dating back to the 4th century BC. This statue was probably the most celebrated work of art discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii in the eighteenth century
Art historian Cesare Brandi has noted, “the beautiful resting Hermes is certainly in Lysippos’ taste, but exquisitely made, with such lightness in its pose, measured harmony of contrasts, softness of fine plasticity.”
“The wonderful adolescent seems to have just descended from Mount Olympus, so human and so divine in a body that was measured by an infallible eye, almost caressed rather than molded” (translated from C. Brandi, “Terre d’Italia”, Rizzoli, Milan 2006).
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The portrait of the messenger of the gods on a break from his constant movement – Hermes was also the conductor of souls into the afterlife – is a Roman piece from the 1st century, probably a copy of a Greek original by Lysippos dating back to the 4th century BC. This statue was probably the most celebrated work of art discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii in the eighteenth century
Art historian Cesare Brandi has noted, “the beautiful resting Hermes is certainly in Lysippos’ taste, but exquisitely made, with such lightness in its pose, measured harmony of contrasts, softness of fine plasticity.”
“The wonderful adolescent seems to have just descended from Mount Olympus, so human and so divine in a body that was measured by an infallible eye, almost caressed rather than molded” (translated from C. Brandi, “Terre d’Italia”, Rizzoli, Milan 2006).
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