Head of Artemis (600–575 BCE): Art, History and Details
Head of Artemis at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 600–575 BCE, terracotta. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Head of Artemis (600–575 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Artemis was the goddess of hunting. Her long straight nose, almond-shaped eyes, and "archaic smile" are very similar to those of Atalanta on the contemporary white-ground lekythos (1966.114)
Object facts
- Title: Head of Artemis
- Date: 600–575 BCE
- Culture: Greece
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: terracotta
- Dimensions: Overall: 13.8 cm (5 7/16 in.)
- Collection: GR - Greek
- Department: Greek and Roman Art
- Accession number: 1929.976
Collection credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
- Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 05, September/October 2013
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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