id: 133313
accession number: 1955.684
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Athlete Making an Offering, c. 450–425 BCE. Greece, probably from workshop of Locri or Tarentum, Classical Period. Bronze (hollow cast); overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); without tang: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1955.684
title: Athlete Making an Offering
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creation date: c. 450–425 BCE
creation date earliest: -450
creation date latest: -425
current location: 102C Greek
creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Greece, probably from workshop of Locri or Tarentum, Classical Period
technique: bronze (hollow cast)
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Greek
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); without tang: 19.8 cm (7 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00
In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance
opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00
Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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url: https://medium.com/cma-thinker/ancient-artworks-echo-the-the-origins-of-the-olympic-games-23ceaf9bc37c
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 21
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n20
Lee, Sherman E. "A Bronze from the Age of Pericles." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 2 (1959): 19-24.
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url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142320.
Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5-6; Plate 8
url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n9
Lee, Sherman E. “The Art Museum and Antiquity: Collection at Cleveland Museum of Art.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 78 (December 1963): 435–46.
page number: Discussed p. 440, Ill. p. 441, fig. 7.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n45
Alsop, Joseph. "Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America (May-June 1966). Mentioned, ill., p. 33.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 21
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n43
Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo. "A Greek Head of the Severe Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 3 (1969): 121-26.
page number: Ill., p. 126, fig. 8.
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152264
Hoffmann, Herbert. Collecting Greek Antiquities. New York: C.N. Potter, 1971.
page number: Ill. p. 71, fig. 62.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 23
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n43
Kranz, P. "Ein Zeugnis lokrischer Toreutik im Cleveland Museum of Art," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 85 (1978): 209-255, pl. 101-104, 106.
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Neils, Jenifer. "A Horseman from Tarentum." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 9 (1981): 331-38.
page number: Ill., p. 331, fig. 1.
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159745.
Kozloff, Arielle P., David Gordon Mitten, and Suzannah Fabing. The Gods Delight: The Human Figure in Classical Bronze. Cleveland, Ohio: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1988.
page number: Pp. 95-98, cat. 12.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n24
Hurwit, Jeffrey M. "The Doryphoros: Looking Backward" in Moon, Warren G., ed. Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 1995. pp. 3-18.
page number: Fig. 1.9, referenced p.10
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Neils, Jenifer, Stephen V Tracy, and Stephen V Tracy. 2003. Tonathenethenathlon : The Games at Athens. Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture Book, No. 25. Athens, Greece: American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
page number: Ill. p. 32, fig. 31.
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