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Keywords: Greek - Head of a Woman - Walters 23220.jpg In the first decades of the 4th century artists further refined the representation of facial features the eyes became more deeply set the lower eyelid almost disappeared and the lips and chin became more delicate The serene expression the triangular shape of the forehead and the loosely carved locks of hair on this statue typify the 4th-century variations on the Classical ideal The head is from a grave monument and paint would have softened the roughened surface of the hair between 390 375 BC Classical marble cm 13 5 9 6 12 2 accession number 23 220 26049 Ludwig and Renata Edelstein date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Bequest of Ludwig and Renata Edelstein 1965 In Search of Ancient Treasure 40 Years of Collecting The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1978 From Alexander to Cleopatra Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1988-1989 Pandora's Box Women in Classical Greece The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Dallas Museum of Art Dallas; Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig Basel 1995-1996 place of origin Athens Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Art from Greece Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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