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Roman marble of
Leda and the Swan (
Prado)
Timotheos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BCE, one of the rivals and contemporaries of Skopas, among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus during the 350s.[1] He was apparently the leading sculptor at the temple of Asklepios at Epidauros, ca. 380 BCE. He is known to have produced a sculpture of Leda, protecting the swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums[2] is said to be "after Timotheos". The theme must have been popular, judging from more than two dozen copies that survive.[3] The highly restored version in the illustration is in the Museo del Prado.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History 36.30-31.
- ^ Inv. MC0302.
- ^ Richard Hamann, "Original und Kopie" Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 15 (1949, pp. 135-156) p 153.
[edit] Further reading
- Reiche, A. Die copie der 'Leda von Timotheos' 1978.
- Kunzl, E. and G. Horn, Die 'Hygeia' des Timotheos 1969.
- Schorb, B. Timotheos 1965.
