Zeus
Roy Coles
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
810 mm (31 7/8 in) high
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732925
Summary
Marble sculpture, Zeus, Greco-Roman, 1st century - 2nd century AD Roman. A small statuette of the mature, bearded Zeus is represented in heroic semi-nudity; in his right hand the Father of the Gods holds his powerful attribute, the thunderbolt. The prototype of the Stourhead Zeus may have been a late fourth-century BC work.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Roy Coles, sculptor
Exhibition history
The Treasure Houses of Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, 1985 - 1986, no.242
References
Vermeule, 1956: Cornelius C. Vermeule, and Dietrich vaon Bothmer, ‘Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain’, American Journal of Archeology, vol.60 (1956), pp. 343 - 344, pl. 105, fig. 4