introduction BEGINNINGS: THE PHOEBE HEARST ERA (1902-1920) THE PHOEBE HEARST COLLECTIONS GUATEMALA NATIVE CALIFORNIA ALASKAN ESKIMO PHILIPPINES ANCIENT NORTH AMERICA ANCIENT PERU ANCIENT egypt ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN 01. “Temple of Castor and Pollux,” Girgenti, Sicily 02. Female head, limestone 03. Equestrian figurine, terracotta 04. Drinking cup (skyphos), red-figure ceramic 05. Stemmed goblet, black-figure ceramic 06. Pot stand, bucchero terracotta 07. Bottle, glass 08. Mosaic fragment, scene with soldiers 09. Head of a goddess or votary, terracotta 10. Head of a young woman, marble 11. Head of a one-eyed man, sarcophagus fragment, marble 12. Statue of Herakles, marble TRANSITION (1920-1945) EXPANSION (1945-1960) CULMINATION (1960-1980) RECENT YEARS (1980-2001) RECENT ACQUISITIONS Statue of Herakles, marble Turkey, Tralles; Roman, ca. 100 A.D. 8–3429 This figure was made by a Roman sculptor copying a Hellenistic statue, which was in turn based on a famous original by Lysippus, a 4th century B.C. Greek. Made for art collectors of the time, it shows the hero Herakles at rest, with the skin of the Nemean lion (a trophy from his first labor) draped over the club under his left arm, after fetching the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides that are held in his right hand behind his back. Around 500 A.D. a Christian in Tralles “depaganized” the piece by cutting three crosses onto it (on each breast and on the lower abdomen).