Make Music – XII: Lyra Player : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Make Music – XII: Lyra Player / Egisto Sani
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| 説明 | Terracotta statuette depicting a lyra player seated on a stool. According to myth, Hermes invented the tortoise-shell lyre “chélys” (also called phórminx and lýra in Hom. H. 4) by affixing curved arms to the shell, over which he had stretched an animal skin, and then attaching seven strings. This type of lyre has long been regarded as the lyra par excellence. This string instrument was characterized by strings of equal length, vertically strung and sounded by plucking.The statuette belongs to “genre subjects” in fashion in Boeotia during the 6th century BC. Numerous Boeotian tombs from the archaic period have yielded up delightful figurines illustrating scenes from daily life. The subjects represented range from cooking and teaching to riding and animal scenes, some of them highly picturesque. These “genre scenes”, which were mainly designed for funerary purposes, were particularly widespread in Boeotia by 550 BC, before disappearing under that form around 480–470. The faces, which by that date were exclusively cast from molds and were used for male and female figures alike, show little variation, whereas the bodies and accessories, which were modeled directly in clay and applied to a base, show great diversity. The liveliness of these figures will have been further enhanced by their originally having been painted in bright matt colors.Boeotian terracotta statuetteH. 10.0 cm; L. 7.4 cm; W. 4.5 cmC. 525–475 BC.From ThebesDepartment of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman AntiquitiesParis, Musée du Louvre – Inv CA 685 |
| 撮影日 | 2017-12-13 12:00:07 |
| 撮影者 | Egisto Sani , Viareggio, Italia |
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