Artist Unknown Greek Philosopher Socrates Alabaster Bust Head Statue Sculpture Décor 5.9 inches

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Townley's description; ‘A head bearing a helmet, and placed upon a Terminus, with the name of Pericles, thus inscribed upon it, ПΕΡΙΚΛΕΣ. The portrait of this great warrior and legislator was not known in these days, until this Terminus, and another similar to it , but of a more modern style of sculpture, were discovered 1780 at the pianella [sic, for Pianura] di Cassio before mentioned’ (TY 12/3, street drawing room 20). The inscription actually reads ΠΕΡΙΚΛΗΣ. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. D. Pandermalis, Untersuchungen zu den klassischen Strategenköpfen (Freiburg i. Breisgau, 1969), 26; G. M. A. Richter, The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks (New Haven, 1929), 175-6, fig. 624 (19302), 233-5, fig. 624; He stated that nobody “needs to be taught what a circle or a triangle is.” People know these concepts naturally, which suggests that they must have learned things like these in a former life.

Mark bought it in 1995 from Mayfair antique dealers Mallet, London. They also have a New York showroom. The alabaster mantle is a modern addition.Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition.Aristotle’s works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, and medieval scholars studied them.

He also influenced Islamic thought during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology. Portrait of Aristotle At seventeen years of age, he joined Plato’s Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. early Trajanic replica (Pandermalis); associated with Kresilas (Hinks, Fittschen, Muss and Schubert; queried by Lippold); Late Hellenistic lettering (Lawrence); seen by Pausanias (i.25.1, 28.2) on the Acropolis (Muss and Schubert). This bust of Aristotle is a marble Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos from 330 BC.

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Clearly the man was one of the most famously even-keeled of humans; having no fear of the battlefield, after years of combat, or the ongoing domestic battlefield of his home life, he seemingly simply had nothing left to fear. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Wolfsdorf 2013, p.34: Others include Charmides, Crito, Euthydemus, Euthyphro, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Laches, Lysis, Protagoras. Benson 2011, p.179, also adds parts of Meno. Gisela Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. I (London: Phaidon Press, 1965), 113 no. 13, figs. 513, 516

G. H. Chase, Greek and Roman Sculpture in American Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1924), 65, fig. 71; Brun, Jean (1978). Socrate (in French) (6thed.). Presses universitaires de France. pp.39–40. ISBN 978-2-13-035620-2. This bust depicts Philip V King of Macedon wearing a Phrygian-style helmet, which was common among the Macedonians. Philip V was king from 221 to 179 BC. A park in the neighborhood was once a port for sand and stone. It was a landfill and dumping ground until local sculptor Mark di Suvero turned it into a public park in 1985. It was opened to the public a year later. Today, it is one of the largest outdoor spaces in New York City devoted to sculpture. The statue has remained a landmark of Long Island City for over a century, and its location in the park is a popular destination for tourists.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. Before the Hellenistic period (i.e. after Alexander’s death in 323 BC), ancient Greek sculptors did not strive to create realistic portraits. They tended to create more idealized representations, such as the famous bust of Themistocles. Greek portraits probably did not reproduce the subject accurately. The Greeks were not like the Romans, who excelled when it came to the creation of realistic portraits of people. However, Philip’s reign was principally marked by an unsuccessful struggle with the emerging power of the Roman Republic. He would lead Macedon against Rome in the First and Second Macedonian Wars, losing both but allying with Rome in the Roman-Seleucid War towards the end of his reign. In other words, he sought the absolute and rejected the relative; he studied the essence of morality and disregarded what he saw as more superficial moral issues.