"Excellent Offerings": The Lausos Collection in Constantinople

• Autores: Sarah Guberti Bassett
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 82, Nº 1, 2000, págs. 6-25
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the early years of the fifth century c.e., Lausos, an aristocrat at the court of Theodosios II (402-450), formed a collection of ancient statuary for display in the city of Constantinople. Included in the ensemble were such famous works of Greco-Roman antiquity as the Zeus by Pheidias from Olympia and the Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles. This article proposes that the Lausos gathering, which always has been considered a private one, was in fact a public display designed to express Theodosian policy regarding the fate of classical statuary and, along with it, Hellenic tradition in an increasingly Christian world.