Hand Carved Snow White retailer Marble Cycladic Art Figurine 18 cm, Neolithic Style, Authentic Museum Replica, Sculpture Art, Unique Art Gift

Description
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Hand Carved Cycladic Art Figurine 16 cm, Authentic Museum Replica, made from Snow-white Naxian marble. It is sculpted by hand with artistry by the sculptor Ioannis Arkoulis using only the unique for it's quality and transparency snow white Naxos marble, which is widely famous as Crystallina of Naxos.

Cycladic figurines are worldwide famous for their strict geometric structure, harmonious proportions and abstract quality virtues. Cycladic Art was source of inspiration for important twentieth-century artists such as Brancusi, Modiliani, Giacometti, Moore and Hepworth and established as one of the most distinctive forms of western artistic expression. It is always small in size and, usually they represent mostly female figures.

This Figurine belongs to the Plastiras type Early Cycladic I of the Plastiras type. The long ovoid head is crowned by a conical cap, the arms are folded below the chest and the legs are carved n the round. The pubic triangle is rendered by incision while the small breasts are modeled. It's a authentic museum copy of the prototype which is located in a Museum in Germany. The prototype was made between 3200 B.C - retailer 2800 B.C. and as place of its origins is placed the island of Keros of Cyclades.

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Dimensions
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Height: 18 cm, with the Base.

Historical Infos
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Figurines of the "Plastiras type", thus named after the cemetery on Paros where they were first identified, were contemporary with violin-shaped figurines and represent the earliest attempt at the naturalistic rendering of the human figure in the third millennium BC. These figurines, which are mainly female and of small dimensions (h. 7-31 cm.), display some of those features that were subsequently to develop into distinctive traits of Cycladic figurines, such as the position of the arms below the breasts and the ovoid head with relief nose. However, the sculptors had not yet conquered the abstraction of the mature period of Cycladic art and instead cleaved to a markedly naturalistic conception, which is particularly pronounced in the treatment of the pelvic area, the pubic triangle and the legs.

Typologically, the Plastiras type figurines are a development of the steatopygous figures of the Late Neolithic period (5300-3200 BC). The conical cap with horizontal grooves occurs on both male and female figures of the late Early Cycladic I period and the transitional phase to Early Cycladic II, and is considered to echo Eastern (Syrian) influences, perhaps in combination with influences from the Balkans.

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