Starting in the period of Roman art, we began to see more children depicted in sculptures in which they began to resemble more and more what a child looks like in real life. I am using the museum visit to explore the idea that children are used in artworks to provide different a different perspective and to showcase the evolution of humanism throughout the Ancient Worlds.

Image List:

Statue of Queen Ankhnes-myre II and her son, Pepy II

Bronze statue of a camillus (acolyte), Roman A.D. 14-54, Early Imperial, Julio Claudian

Praxiteles Hermes with the Infant Dionysus,

Marble grave stele with a family group, ca. 360 B.C., Late Classical

Bronze statue of Eros sleeping, 3rd-2nd century B.C., Hellenistic Period