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The ''Meleager'' of Skopas is a lost bronze sculpture of the Greek hero Meleager – host of the Calydonian boar hunt – that is associated in modern times with the fourth century BCE architect and sculptor Skopas of Paros. The sculpture escaped mention in any classical writer. It is judged to have been a late work in the sculptor's career,〔Andrew F. Stewart, ''Skopas of Paros'' (1977) ch. 9, places it with his ''Pothos''; Stewart's monograph, the modern standard, had its origins in his thesis.〕 but it is known only through a number of copies that vary in quality and in fidelity to the original,〔Stewart 1977 Appendix 4 lists known copies and fragments.〕 which show it to have been one of the famous sculptures of Antiquity: "the popularity of the Meleager during Roman times was certainly great," notes Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway,〔Ridgway, ''Hellenistic Sculpture I: Styles Of Ca. 331-200 B.C.'' (University of Wisconsin Press) 2001:87f.〕 who reports Andrew F. Stewart's count of 13 statues, 4 torsos, 19 heads (which are similar enough to the Ludovisi Ares to raise confusions) busts and herms, a variant with changed stance and attributes, and 11 versions adapted for a portrait or a deity. Six or seven of the accepted copies are accompanied by a dog, 12 wear a chlamys, 3, clinching the sculptural type's identification with Meleager, are accompanied by a boar's head trophy, as in the Vatican ''Meleager'' (''illustration, right''). Ms Ridgeway accounts for the sculpture's popularity in part "by the appeal that hunting figures had for the Romans, through theirheroizing connotations."〔Ridgeway 2001:88.〕 A torso in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,〔Bequest of Mrs K.G.T. Webster, acc. no. 1926.48; the sculpture is actually conserved in the Sackler Museum〕 is rated among the superior copies, if it is indeed a Meleager.〔Stewart 1977:104ff raised the possibility that the Fogg torso instead represented a copy of one of two types of Skopas' Aesculapius, noticed by Pausanias in the second century CE, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway (2001:88) noticed the remains of a staff under the left armpit, where the spear associated with representations of Meleager would pierce the youth's skin or else be dulled against the ground, she remarked.〕 "There are other marble Meleagers," wrote Cornelius Vermeule in 1967,〔Vermeule, "Greek Sculpture and Roman Taste", ''Boston Museum Bulletin'' 65 No. 342 (1967:175-192) p. 175〕 "one or two reaching the level of the Fogg statue〔Vermeule illustrates (fig. 2) a battered mirror-image head of the Meleager, also at the Fogg, of poorer quality.〕 but most of them documents of stonecutting devoid of the restless inner life that must have been imparted by the master to the original." Several unfinished copies found in Athens suggest that the city was a center for reproductions for the Roman market.〔Vermeule 1967:175 note 3.〕 It is not known whether Skopas' original was carried out for the ''heroon'' at Calydon where Meleager was venerated and whether the original was carried off as a cultural trophy by one of the Romans "of taste and means".〔Vermeule 1967:175〕 The lifesize standing ''Meleager'' from Palazzo Fusconi-Pighini (''illustration, right''), sometimes identified in the 16th and 17th centuries as an Adonis, who was a victim of a boar rather than its master, was recorded in 1546 among the most beautiful in Rome, not excluding the antiquities of the Cortile del Belvedere; it was in the house of the doctor to three popes, Francesco Fusconi from Norcia, whose Roman palazzo faced Palazzo Farnese.〔Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, ''Taste and the Antique: the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900'' (Yale University Press) 1982:263, cat. no. 60.〕 The sculpture, which was engraved in all the anthologies of antiquities, was copied by Pierre Lepautre for Louis XIV at Marly. The original remained with Fusconi's eventual Pighini heirs until early in 1770, when it was purchased by Pope Clement XIV as one of the founding pieces for his new museum in the Vatican. It was among the select group of sculptures triumphantly removed by Napoleon to Paris, under terms of the Treaty of Tolentino (1797) but returned after Napoleon's fall. A variant, discovered in 1838, has been conserved in the Antikensammlung Berlin〔Illustration〕 since 1844. Another early Roman full-size marble copy is at the Art Institute of Chicago.〔Acc. no. 1972.935, height 173 cm (68-5/16 in.) gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Davidson.〕 Ms Ridgeway remarks critically on the slenderness of the connection with Skopas, which is based on the subject of the east pediment of the Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, in which Skopas was the architect, but not, as Ms Ridgeway observes, accounted directly responsible for the pediment sculptures in any classical reference: "from a narrative pedimental composition in Arkadia— related, moreover, to local families and legends— to a single free-standing sculpture, perhaps in Kalydon (a tomb monument to the hero, as suggested by Stewart?) is quite a leap of the imagination."〔Ridgeway 2001:89.〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meleager of Skopas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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