Neo-Attic sculptures

Roman nude marble sculpture at Capitoline Museums

ancient Roman sculptural group

thumb|200px|The Gradiva, an example of a Neo-Attic sculpture thumb|left|Another Neo-Attic relief (British Museum) Neo-Attic or Atticizing is a sculptural style, beginning in Hellenistic sculpture and vase-painting of the 2nd century BC and climaxing in Roman art of the 2nd century AD, copying, adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the Classical (5th–4th centuries BC) and Archaic (6th century BC) periods. It was first produced by a number of Neo-Attic workshops at Athens, which began to specialize in it, producing works for purchase by Roman connoisseurs, and w

thumb|The original Roman relief upon which Gradiva was based (Vatican City). |300x300px Gradiva, or "She who steps along", is a mythic figure created by Wilhelm Jensen as a central character in his novella Gradiva (1902). The character was inspired by an existing Roman relief. She later became a prominent subject in Surrealist art after Sigmund Freud published an essay on Jensen's work.

Hellenistic-Roman Neo Attic sculpture-type of the god Dionysus