Marble statue of the so-called Stephanos Youth

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This figure of a youth is one of the best-known examples of the type of sculpture acquired by the Roman upper classes, who sought to decorate their private villas in a way that evoked the sophistication and culture of the recently subdued Hellenistic kingdoms of the eastern Mediterranean. Greek sculptors in Athens and Rome itself could provide more or less exact replicas of well-known statues from the past as well as new creations that imitated or combined various earlier Greek styles. The Stephanos Youth is such a combination: The extremely broad shoulders and the stance bring to mind male statues of the second quarter of the fifth century B.C., while the small head and long legs derive from works created in the mid-fourth century B.C. by the famous Greek sculptor Lysippos. The soft modeling of the flesh is found in the statues of Praxiteles, another famous sculptor of the fourth century, as well as in Hellenistic sculpture of the third and second centuries B.C. A new creation resulted from these learned, eclectic combinations. The statue must have been very popular, for over seventeen ancient copies are known today. It was apparently typical of the sculpture available in the Roman workshop of the Greek sculptor Pasiteles, during the mid-first century B/C. A number of Roman writers commented on Pasiteles, and we have a rare sculptor’s signature by Staphanos, his pupil, on the most complete example of this work, which is now in the Villa Albani, Rome.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe.

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