Hermes Ludovisi

It is made of Italic marble and is a somewhat slick[3] 1st-century AD Roman copy after an inferred bronze original of the 5th century BC which is traditionally attributed to the young Phidias, ca 440 BC,[4] or alternatively called "Myronic".

[5] Its model is among the earliest sculptural representations of Hermes as beardless and youthful.

A variant on a somewhat reduced scale, found in Anzio, is conserved in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.

As in other free Roman-era copies, there are variations in the shaping of the soft-brimmed petasos Hermes wears and the angle of the kerykeion in his left hand.

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