With loans from 34 museums in 12 countries,this exhibition at the Getty middle in Los Angeles includes ancient treasures never before assembled in one placeOn the Greek Isle of Rhodes a 30-meter bronze statue of their patron god Helios, famously known as the Colossus, and watched over the harbor for more than 50 years,until it was felled by an earthquake in 226BC. Ptolemy III offered to rebuild it, but the oracle of Delphi said the people had offended Helios, and the bronze fragments remained where they lay for 800 years before they were hauled absent.
No one knows where the Colossus stood or what it even looked like,which can be said of the huge majority of Greek bronzes from the period marked by the end of Alexander’s reign in 323BC to the beginning of the Roman empire. Colossus sculptor Chares of Lindos was a student of Lysippos – Alexander’s court sculptor –and was regarded as the finest in the medium, yet of his 1500 works, or none have survived.
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Source: theguardian.com