Relief with Helios
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Bringing daylight to the world, the sun god, Helios, rises from the waves of the ocean in a four-horse chariot. Originally the relief was painted and may have stood in a sanctuary.
This sculpture was probably made in a Greek colony in southern Italy.
Castello Giussi, Vico Equense, Italy [1];
With Barsanti, Rome, by August 27, 1937 [2];
Purchased from Barsanti by Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, stock no. P14042, August 27, 1937-October 8, 1945;
Purchased from Brummer, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.
NOTES:
[1] Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut photoarchive, Rome, photograph 3030, fiche no. 2710.
[2] According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archives, Brummer Gallery Records, Greek and Roman marbles and stones, Object inventory card number P14042, this sculpture was bought at a public sale in Vico Equense.
Paolino Mingazzini and Friedrich Pfister, Surrentum. Forma Italiae. Regio 1, Latium et Campania, vol. 2 (Florence: Sansoni Editore, 1946), plate 36.
Jiří Frel and Bonnie M. Kingsley, “Three Attic Sculpture Workshops of the Early Fourth Century B.C.,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 11 (1970): 201, no. 5, plate 11.2.
Klaus Stähler, "Ein großgriechischer Weihrelief an Helios," Boreas 1 (1978), 103-12, plates 17-18.
Theodosia Stephanidu-Tiberiu, Neoattika: hoi anaglyphoi pinakes apo to limani tu Peiraia, Bibliothēkē tēs en Athēnais Archaiologikēs Hetaireias 91 (Athens: 1979), 148-49, plate 48b.
Brunilde Ridgway, Fifth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 152.
Annamaria Comella, I relievi votivi greci di periodo arcaico e classico: Diffusione, ideologia, committenza (Bari, IT: Edipuglia, 2002), 160, 228.
