Euripides

Euripides Euripides is a Greek tragedian who lived around 480–407/6 BC. This marble bust of him is a copy of an ancient Roman marble crest kept in the collection of Museo Nazionale in Naples and made during the reign of Emperor Claudius (41–54) based on a Greek sculpture from around 330 BC, associated with Lysippos. This herma is considered the best among the numerous ancient Roman copies of Euripides. The bust kept in Łańcut depicts him as an elderly, balding man, with his head slightly bowed and his long hair arranged in wavy strands. Face with a high and convex forehead, long nose, almond-shaped eyeballs half-covered by eyelids, clearly contoured, with narrow, slightly parted lips, surrounded by a chin with flat curls. The bust draws attention with its strict and linear modelling. The copy kept in Łańcut was made by an Italian sculptor Giuseppe Pisani (1757–1839), in Vienna in 1805. It has been part of the Łańcut collection since 1948, when it was taken over by the museum from the Museum Repository in Przeworsk established in the Lubomirski Palace, nationalised in 1944, and including the local art collection. It is exhibited in the Sculpture Gallery, where copies of other ancient sculptures are also presented. Barbara Trojnar