Chiaramonti Charites relief or the Charites of Socrates
- Title:
- Chiaramonti Charites relief or the Charites of Socrates
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (Roman copy)
attributed to Socrates (either the 5th c. Athenian philosopher or an earlier 5th c. Socrates from Boeotia)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
2nd c. CE
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Rome, Hospital of S. Giovanni in Laterano (discovery site, 1769) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Rome, Hospital of S. Giovanni in Laterano (discovery site, 1769) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0080
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 191
191 (sticker front, left hand corner)
80 - File Name:
- CCC_0080.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 183 (H) x 187 (W) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial (Hadrianic), in Neo-Attic style
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in relief (original) - Subject:
- Graces, The
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 81 x 87.5 x 3.5-15.5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a reduced cast of a neo-Attic relief depicting the three Graces held in the Vatican. The Greek original of the work, which is known from a number of Roman copies, was attributed in antiquity to the 5th c. philosopher Socrates (whose father was a stonemason) and is dated late in the 5th c. It was said to have been set up on the Athenian Acropolis. It is alternatively attributed by modern scholars to a Boeotian sculptor named Socrates and dated to the 470s BCE. The figures, then, are either archaizing or early Classical in form. The three women are rendered rather stiffly and with heavy features. All have heavy-lidded, almond-shaped eyes and calm expressions. They stand holding hands and progressing towards the viewer's left, each with her right leg advanced. The leftmost figure is depicted in three-quarter view. She wears a heavy garment with a low kolpos and holds up her drapery at the side with her right hand. Her long, wavy hair is parted in the middle and bound back to fall at her neck. The figure in the middle faces front with her right leg depicted in profile. She wears a peplos that falls in zigzag folds down her right (side). Her hair is arranged in a thick band of stylized curls at the front and bound in a snood in the back. The figure at the right is shown in profile. She wears a crinkle chiton largely covered by a himation. Her hair is styled in a manner similar to the middle figure's, but the front is wavy rather than curly.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Chiaramonti no. 1669 - Bibliography:
- Werner Fuchs, Die Vorbilder der neuattischen Reliefs. Jahrbuch des deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Suppl. 20 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1959), 59-63, pl. 12b
Rune Frederiksen and R. R. R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 2011), 235, no. E 2
B. Andreae et al. (eds.), Museo Chiaramonti. Bildkatalog der Skulpturen des Vatikanischen Museums I, 2 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995), pls. 428-429
Olga Palagia, "A New Relief Sacris Erudiri 31 (1989), 347-356 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Vatican Museums (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.