Relief of a Falling Warrior

1. Said to be found off the coast of Athens, 1925; sold to Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), Geneva, Switzerland, 1925; sold to Alfred E. Hamill (1884-1953), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1928.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, An Exhibition of Classical Art, c. January 1927–unknown date.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, Gallery 101A, March 1, 1987-August 31, 1987.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture from the Classical Collection, September 1, 1987–August 31, 1988.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection, Part 2, January 13, 1989–February 21, 1990.
• Art Institute of Chicago, What’s Greek about a Roman Copy?, April 9–June 2, 2011.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 156, April 20, 1994-February 6, 2012.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012-present.

• Helen Comstock, “Five Centuries of Greek Sculpture,” International Studio 84 (May–August 1926), p. 33 (ill.)–34.
• Art Institute of Chicago, “An Exhibition of Classical Art,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 21, 1 (January 1927), pp. 9–10, (ill.).
• Daniel Caton Rich, “A Late Greek Relief,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 23, 6 (September 1929), pp. 102–103 (cover ill.).
• Ralph Van Deman Magoffin and Emily Cleveland Davis, Magic Spades: The Romance of Archaeology (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929), pp. 323 (ill.), 328.
• A. D. Fraser, “The Sinking Warrior Relief,” in “General Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America,” American Journal of Archaeology 31, 1 (January–March 1930), p. 58.
• Paul Jacobsthal, Die Melischen Reliefs, (Berlin: Verlag von Heinrich Keller, 1931), p.152.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide To The Collections (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 8 (ill.).
• Hans Schrader, “Kopien nach dem Schildrelief,” in Corolla Ludwig Curtius zum sechzigsten Geburtstag dargebracht, ed. Heinrich Bulle (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1937), p. 87, pl. 20, 2.
• A.D. Fraser, “The ‘Capaneus’ Reliefs of the Villa Albani and the Art Institute of Chicago,” American Journal of Archaeology 43, 3 (July–September 1939), pp. 447–457, fig. 2.
• Frank Brommer, “Zu den Schildreliefs der Athena Parthenos des Phidias,” Marburger Winckelmann-Programm (1948), p. 18 note 11.
• Phoivos D. Stavropoulous, I aspis tis Athinas Parthenou tou Pheidiou (Athens: Archaiologika etaireía, 1950), pp. 48–49, figs. 24–24a.
• Giovanni Becatti, Problemi Fidiaci (Milan: Electa, 1951), p. 114, pl. 67, fig. 202.

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Fragment of a Necklace

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Bottle

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Portrait Head of Emperor Hadrian

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