Neo Attic Art

The veiled head is separately made no doubt by a greek and is an example of neo attic sculpture at its warmest as can be seen in the subtle modulations of the surface.
Neo attic art. Art describing a late hellenistic style of bas relief sculpture. The body below is almost completely concealed beneath the voluminous toga. Neo attic quick reference term coined by heinrich brunn in his geschichte der griechischen künstler stuttgart 1853 to designate sculptors of the 1st century bc to the 2nd century ad who added the epithet. The 18th century arts movement known as neoclassicism represents both a reaction against the last phase of the baroque and perhaps more importantly a reflection of the burgeoning scientific interest in classical antiquity.
It is attributed by signature to sosibios a greek sculptor who was active in rome during the end of the roman republic and is dated to approximately 50 bce. The sosibios vase is a neo attic marble krater of the hellenistic period. Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods. Neo attic or atticizing is a sculptural style beginning in hellenistic sculpture and vase painting of the 2nd century bce and climaxing in roman art of the 2nd century ce copying adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the classical 5th 4th centuries bce and archaic 6th century bce periods.
Only the right knee and lower leg are visible. A fine example of classicizing art this marble pillar bears on all four sides reliefs in the neo attic style. The themes are drawn from the world of dionysus. A flowering acanthus plant carved in low relief occupies one of the long sides while on the other in higher relief two female figures with billowing garments surmount a silenus herm.