Alexander the Great (356 – 323 BC)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1740
Materials
White, red and green marble
Measurements
865 mm (bust); 1090 mm (plinth)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 562906.1
Summary
White, red and green marble sculpture, Alexander the Great (356 – 323 BC). A white marble bust of Alexander the Great with drapery made up of red and green marble, on round socle, on marble plinth. The group of four probably acquired in 1740s. Free copy of bust, known as Alexander, in Capitoline Museum, Rome. Or adapted from Dying Alexander bust in Uffizi Gallery, Florence (Haskell and Penny 1981, p.134, no.2). F.M. Piper's drawing of 1779 shows bust in a round niche in the Venetian Seat (demolished in the 1790s), Woodbridge p.16.
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, p.134, no.2 Woodbridge, 1974: Kenneth Woodbridge. The Stourhead landscape. [London]: National Trust, 1974.