Idolino
Statue of a youth.
This bronze is a Roman emulation of a Greek style from some four hunded and fifty years earlier. It is influenced by the Doryphoros of Polykleitos, especially the head, and was once thought to be an original by the Greek sculptor representing Bacchus; it may be an example of a Roman dinner party fashion for pseudo-Classical statues of young men holding oil lamps
Florence, Museo Archeologico 143
Purchased in 1884 from the Paris Beaux Arts
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 165 (n.3)
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 65, no.291
Rumpf: Critica d’Arte H., 19/20, 17 (?)
Zanker: Klassizistische Statuen, 30
Richter: Ancient Italy, 51
Hölscher: The Language of Images in Roman Art, 11, pl.1
Ridgway, in Moon (ed.): Polykleitos, the Doryphoros and Tradition, 180
Haskell & Penny: Taste and the Antique, 240
Marvin, in Hughes & Ranfft (eds.): Sculpture and its Reproductions, 10
Discovered at Pesaro, on Italy’s east coast, in 1530. Later in the Uffizi, Florence