Demosthenes Mask - Item #259
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12 Inches High x 9 Inches Wide x 6.25 Inches Deep
Life-size mask. The Athenian statesman Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.E.) is recognized as one of the greatest orators of Ancient Greece. Thanks to a history of writing down and copying his speeches for posterity, records of Demosthenes's speeches provide us with excellent material for understanding life during that period of Greek history. The original bust in the Louvre is likely an inspired copy of an Ancient Greek statue by Polyeuktos from circa 280 B.C.E. The statue, located in the Vatican Museums, is a portrait of the man and depicts him with a beard and mustache and wearing a toga. Although his hands are missing, we know from ancient texts that they were clasped together. Demosthenes's slumped shoulders and furrowed brows indicate his focus on and stress in regards to the state of politics at the time. On the cast in our collection, we have left intact the seam lines created during the old moldmaking process used in the past.
Artist: Unknown
Museum: Louvre Museum, Paris
Time Period: Ancient Roman, c. 2nd century C.E.
1911 Catalog ID # - 13522
Sources:
"Cast of a portrait statue of Demosthenes." Museum number CG.C.212. Ashmolean, https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/781121.
"Demosthenes." Museum number 503. Museum of Classical Archaeology Databases. University of Cambridge, UK, https://museum.classics.cam.ac.uk/collections/casts/demosthenes.
"Demonsthenes." Slater Memorial Museum, https://www.slatermuseum.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/the-plaster-cast-collection/online-cast-exhibition/p/~board/online-galleries/post/46-demonsthenes.
Murphy, James J. "Demosthenes: Greek statesman and orator." Encyclopædia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Demosthenes-Greek-statesman-and-orator.
"Portrait de Démosthène, homme politique athénien (384-322 avant J.-C.)." Museum number MR 458 or Ma 237. Louvre Museum: Atlas Database, http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=924.
"Portrait of Demosthenes (384–322 B.C)." Museum number 1981.47. Yale University Art Gallery, https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/7192.
"Portrait of the Greek Orator Demosthenes." Museum number 2007.221. Harvard Art Museums, https://hvrd.art/o/4842.
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