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Statue group of Orestes and Elektra. Electra is leaning on her brother’s left shoulder, wearing a long chiton tied at her waist and himation. Orestes is naked, wearing a diadem on his head. He held something in his right hand that is not preserved.
The marble goup is not a Roman copy of a bronze original, but a marble original made by the sculptor Stephanos, dated to 50 BC. Its eclectic neoclassical features remind the "Severe Style" of Greek sculpture (480-450 BC). Stephanos was a pupil of the famous neo-Attic sculptor of the 1st c. BC Pasiteles.
Caption Marble statue group of Orestes and Elektra
Mythic people Orestes (Hero)
Type Statue
Artist/Creator Stephanos the Younger
Origin Pozzuoli, Italy (near Naples)
Current position Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli, Italy
Index number 6006
Dating 50 BC
Notes
Pollitt, J.J. 1986. Art in the Hellenistic Age, Cambridge-New York, 175, pl. 186.
Orestes and Elektra | Museum of Classical Archaeology Databases (cam.ac.uk)
Για το αγαλματικό σύμπλεγμα του Ορέστη και του Πυλάδη, έργο του γλύπτη Στεφάνου του Νεότερου, βλ. Μουσείο Λούβρου ΜΑ 81 (weblimc.org) και Museo Nacional del Prado 28-Ε (weblimc.org) & Orestes and Pylades or The San Ildefonso Group, Museo Nacional del Prado (museodelprado.es)
Για το αγαλματικό σύμπλεγμα του Ορέστη και της Ηλέκτρας, έργο του γλύπτη Μενέλαου, μαθητή του γλύπτη Στεφάνου του Νεότερου, βλ. Museo Nazionale Romano, Roma 8604 (weblimc.org)
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