Plaster Cast of the Old Drunkard in the Academic Art Museum Bonn (Inv. 2053)
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creator: Lang, Matthias
author: Lang, Matthias
date published: 2024-11-07
date modified: 2025-02-05
version: 2
description: The plaster cast shows the Old Drunkard, whose original is located in the Glyptothek Munich (Inv. 437). The statue is one of two preserved Roman copies of a lost, Hellenistic original; the other copy is located in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The copies are made of marble, the same material is also assumed for the original. The exact execution date of the Hellenistic statue is uncertain, but due to stylistic comparisons it is dated to the last third of the 3rd century B. C. The Munich copy is dated to the 1st century A. D. Over time several assumptions were made concerning the interpretation of the Old Trunkard, from the praying lady to the old woman lusting for wine to the hetaerae.
keywords: Arts and Humanities
keywords: Sculpture
keywords: Hellenism
citation: CreativeWork
  name: M. Bieber, The sculpture of the Hellenistic age (New York 1961) Aabb. 284. W. Fuchs, Die Skulptur der Griechen (München 1979) Abb. 310, R. Wünsche, Glyptothek München. Meisterwerke griechischer und römischer Skulptur (München 2005) 114.
license: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
included in data catalog: bonndata
publisher: bonndata
provider: bonndata
funder: Universität Bonn
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Lang, Matthias
type: Person
given name: Matthias
family name: Lang
affiliation: University of Bonn

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