《Bronze Statue Of Eros Sleeping》（睡梦中的厄洛斯铜像）
《Bronze Statue Of Eros sleeping》（睡梦中的厄洛斯铜像）（厄洛斯睡像）
类型：古希腊艺术
题材：神话绘画
材质：青铜
希腊化时期引入了年龄的精确描述。幼童备受喜爱，无论是在神话故事中——如小赫拉克勒斯或小爱神厄洛斯——还是在场景描绘中——与同伴或宠物嬉戏玩耍。这位爱神厄洛斯被降格至凡间，失去了神力，这一概念与古诗中经常描述的、强大、往往残忍且反复无常的形象大相径庭。这是从古代留存下来的为数不多的几尊青铜雕像之一，这位体态丰盈、姿态放松的婴儿形象，传递出一种即时感和自然主义的细节感，这正是青铜材质所赋予的可能。他显然是基于第一手观察创作的。支撑这位神祇的底座是现代添加的元素，但作品原本可能配有独立的底座，材质多半为石头。
这座雕像堪称同类作品中的典范。从现存的大量复制品来看，这种类型在当时颇为流行，尤其是在希腊化时期乃至罗马时代。在罗马时期，睡姿爱神雕像被用于装饰别墅花园和喷泉。而在希腊化时期，它们的功能则不甚明确。它们或许曾被用作供奉于阿佛洛狄忒神庙内的祭品，也可能被竖立在公共公园或私人乃至皇家园林中。
希腊化时代的艺术从主题到风格发展都呈现出丰富的多样性。这一时代的艺术家是天才创新者，他们在视觉形像中引入了对不同年纪的准确刻画。小孩的形象尤其受到青睐，不管是以婴儿时期的赫拉克勒斯或厄洛斯等神话形式呈现，还是以彼此玩耍或与宠物玩耍的风俗场景形式呈现。这里的厄洛斯（即爱神）已被带到地上并解除了武器，其构思与古风时期希腊诗歌中描绘的那个强大、时常很残忍而且反复无常的形象判若两人。从古代流传下来的为数不多的青铜雕像中，这尊据信来自罗得岛的人像传达出一种直接而自然的细节刻画，因使用了青铜这种材料而成为可能。
The Hellenistic period introduced the accuratecharacterization of age. Young children enjoyed great favor, whether in mythological form, as baby Herakles or Eros, or in genre scenes, playing with each other or with pets. This Eros, god of love, has been brought down to earth and disarmed, a conception considerably different from that of the powerful, often cruel, and capricious being so often addressed in Archaic poetry. One of the few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity, this figure of a plump baby in relaxed pose conveys a sense of the immediacy and naturalistic detail that the medium of bronze made possible. He is clearly based on firsthand observation. The support on which the god rests is a modern addition, but the work originally would have had a separate base, most likely of stone.
This statue is the finest example of its kind.Judging from the large number of extant replicas, the type was popular in Hellenistic and, especially, Roman times. In the Roman period, Sleeping Eros statues decorated villa gardens and fountains.Their function in the Hellenistic period is less clear.They may have been used as dedications within a sanctuary of Aphrodite or possibly may have been erected in a public park or private, even royal, garden.
