Roman marble of Leda and the Swan (Prado)

Timotheos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BCE, one of the rivals and contemporaries of Skopas, among the sculptors who worked for their own fame on the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus during the 350s.^[1] He was apparently the leading sculptor at the temple of Asklepios at Epidauros, ca. 380 BCE. He is known to have produced a sculpture of Leda, protecting the swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums^[2] is said to be "after Timotheos". The theme must have been popular, judging from more than two dozen copies that survive.^[3] The highly restored version in the illustration is in the Museo del Prado. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 359 × 600 pixels Full resolution (1159 × 1937 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 359 × 600 pixels Full resolution (1159 × 1937 pixel, file size: 1. ... The Museo del Prado is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid, Spain. ... Scopas (c. ... A fanciful interpretation of the Mausoleum of Mausolus, from a 1572 engraving by Martin Heemskerck (1498–1574), who based his reconstruction on descriptions. ... Map of the Aegean Sea, showing the location of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) Halicarnassus (; modern Bodrum; see also List of traditional Greek place names), an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Asia Minor, on a picturesque and advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf (Gulf of Cos, Gulf... Asclepius was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology, according to which he was born a mortal but was given immortality as the constellation Ophiuchus after his death. ... Panoramic view of the theater at Epidaurus Epidaurus (Epidauros) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece at the Saronic Gulf. ... Michelangelos design for Capitoline Hill, now home to the Capitoline Museums. ... The Museo del Prado is a famous museum and art gallery located in Madrid, Spain. ...

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Further reading

• Reiche, A. Die copie der 'Leda von Timotheos' 1978.
• Kunzl, E. and G. Horn, Die 'Hygeia' des Timotheos 1969.
• Schorb, B. Timotheos 1965.