Tycoon Galleries

The Sculpture below is dedicated to my dear friend Eugenia Livanos, " you will always hold a place in my heart, Tycoon"

"The Lady and the Sailor"

Tycoon Displays Ancient Morgantina, Roman Sculpture

This sculpture : was part of a trade of a fresco,
from a villa near Pompeii between (Tycoon) Shipping tycoon
Yiannis Latsis and Lawrence A. Fleischman,

The Sculpture : believed to be from
Morgantina, an ancient Greek settlement whose
ruins lie next to Aidone.

A remarkable work is now on display in the collection of Tycoon Galleries Museum,
: a marble sculpture depicting a horse's head, whose style and carving are closely similar to those
of other sculptures found in Athens and Attica, dating from the 2nd half of the 6th century BC.
The figure of the horse testifies to its patron's social status: a noble citizen from the Hippeis class,
who enjoyed the privilege of riding into combat on horseback. The work is a valuable addition
toTycoon's priceless art collection. The celebrated Head is a magnificent illustration of the emergence
of free-standing equestrian sculpture, a superb Greek innovation datable to around 550 BC.
The best-documented series of such works was found at the Acropolis in Athens, but other
discoveries at Delos, Eleusis and other Attic sanctuaries testify to the widespread nature of this practice.
Alternatively, the work may have been destined for an aristocratic walled cemetery in the Athenian countryside.