agesilaos wrote::
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But check out the Alexanders here; blog week 8 I think, just scroll down. Some look similar but how much does Azara look like Pergamon or your BM piece?"
to me, they look like faces of the same man at different ages - unlike the Attalos sculpture Alexias posted, which to me doesn't look anything like Alexander
at all.
The Azara marble is interesting: to me, it looks as if it was done very late in his life, and certainly after Hephaistion's death. There is something in that face I've not seen in any other sculpture I know of.
Maybe it's just my perception of human faces.
I do agree that the Ephesos Lysimachos is just like Alexander with a haircut, I see the beginnings of an anastole (I know what it looks like; I used have my haircut in that style, yes barbers do think you are mad when you hand them 'The Nature of Alexander' and say 'Like that,' ! )
I'm delighted to know I'm not the only one
But Plutarch Alex 4 says that not every sculptor caught Alexander's likeness and he favoured Lysippos, it does not say that only Lysippos was was permitted to sculpt him only that Alexander judged his work the best, one does come across the former misinterpretation and I think Pliny the Elder even states it (though obviously not from Plutarch).
I'm looking at the problem from the other end: there is a group of sculpture that is so unequivocally Alexander that I don't care whether an archeologist says they found it on top of Napoleon. If my fusiform gyrus says it's Alexander, then
it is Alexander. I'm right and they're wrong. Period.
Lysimachos at Ephesos belongs to that group.
Then there are works of art where my fusiform gyrus returns "need more data for identification": the Schwarzenberg Alexander and most images on coins are examples. If experts say it's Alexander, I take their word for it.
Chris.