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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Unknown Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Greek Creator Dates/Places: Ancient Mediterranean, Aegean Islands Europe,Greece,Aegean Islands Creator Active Place: Europe,Greece,Aegean Islands Creator Name-CRT: Unknown Title: Female Figure Title Type: preferred View: Front view Creation Start Date: -260 Creation End Date: -240 Creation Date: Bronze Age, Early Cycladic II, 2600/2400 B.C. Creation Place: Europe,Greece,Aegean Islands,Cyclades department,Kéa island Object Type: Sculpture Materials and Techniques: Marble, Spedos variety Dimensions: H.: 39.6 cm (15-3/4 in.) AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1978.115 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Katherine K. Adler Endowment Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html Subject Description: This female figure, shaped from a block of island marble, is characteristic of the sculpture of the Cyclades in the third millennium B.C. There is some damage to the nose and the top of the head, and the lower legs were broken off from above the knee and are lost. The local crystalline marble, which splits easily, encouraged the development of a simple style that the conservatism of artisans and users maintained for 500 years. The forms of this sculpture are uncompromisingly abstract: the face is an oval tilted back, the nose a pronounced ridge, and the neck a cylinder. The folded arms are rendered schematically, with only shallow incision articulating fingers, while the abdomen and thighs are long with simple, almost shapeless contours. In profile, the whole figure is strikingly flat and thin. Details of the eyes, mouth, ears, and hair were probably added in paint. Style or Period: Aegean Context: Greek, Cycladic Islands, probably from the island of Keros. Bronze Age, Early Cycladic II, Spedos variety. The female figure was, by far, the most popular subject of this style, although other themes included musicians and male warriors. These scultures have been found mostly in graves, but also in domestic settings. The context of the so-called 'Keros hoard,' from which this piece is thought to have come, continues to be debated. So the specific function of these figures remains puzzling, although they evidently enjoyed use in life and death. Were they images of respected ancestors? Or heroines? Or deities? Whatever their creators had in mind, the enthusiasm for representational art that they embody was the special strength of Cycladic artistic production in the third millennium B.C., and this skill distinguished the islands culturally both from contemporay Crete and mainland Greece. AMICA ID: AIC_.1978.115 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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