Detroit Institute of Arts: Notes on Standing Youth, Possibly Endymion

The medium is marble.

This is a sculpture in the round.

It was created between the first and second century C.E.

It was made by an unknown artist.

It is a Roman sculpture.

Like many other Roman sculptures, it is believed to be based on an earlier Greek

sculpture from around 300 B.C.E.

It may be a depiction of Endymion.

It depicts contrapposto, which was very common in Greek and Roman sculpture. This is

evident by the statue’s relaxed body positioning and how most of his weight is supported

by his right leg.

His arms and head are missing, which seems to be common with a lot of statues from this

period.

The figure seems pretty fit, so he might be idealized depending on whom the artist was

intending to depict. This seems to be popular in Roman art; for example, we looked at a

sculpture of Augustus in class that may have been idealized.