STATUETTA DI MUSICO IN TERRACOTTA Rara e particolare statua in terracotta raffigurante un suonatore di cimbali, l’uomo è ritratto nudo, stante in contrapposto con il peso del corpo poggiante sulla gamba sinistra e la gamba destra piegata, la muscolatura è delineata in rilievo, i particolari anatomici dei singoli muscoli sono resi con dettaglio e maestria, le braccia sono aperte è piegate nell’atto di percuotere tra loro i due strumenti, nella mano destra tiene un piatto o un cimbalo, porta i baffi e la barba lunga, i capelli hanno folte ciocche minuziosamente delineate e sono stretti in un nastro, poggia su di una base circolare modanata. Comunicazione alla Soprintendenza Archeologica di Bologna Cod RPS 1/2013 TERRACOTTA STATUETTE OF A CYMBALS PLAYER A terracotta statuette of a standing nude male figure bears the weight of his body on his left leg, the right bent, emphasizing the pose, which is characterized by a turn of the hip, his hands opened in the act of playing two cymbals. His hairs are parted into thin locks with a wreath around the head, long beard. His oval face has a small, fleshy mouth and a prominent nose, almond shaped eyes, arched eyebrows. The musculature is carefully delineated. The mould-cast terracotta Tanagra figurines, produced from the later fourth century B.C., were a specialty of the Boeotian town of Tanagra in Greece where many of them were found for the first time in 1860, but they were produced also in other ancient centre such as Canosa. The majority of this terracotta figurines depict fashionable women or girls, elegantly wrapped in thin himathia (cloaks), and sometimes wearing broad-brimmed hats and holding wreaths or fans. Previously, in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., terracotta statuettes had been produced in Athens primarily for religious purposes, or as souvenirs of the theatre. In contrast, the entirely new repertoire of Tanagra terracottas was based on an intimate examination of the personal world of mortal women and children, occasionally young men, and other characters, who are believed to have had their origins in the New Comedy of Menander. Cod. 1/2013 Altezza 34 cm circa Integro, scialbatura bianca, resti di policromia marrone sulla testa