Explore the Style of this artwork, Castor and Pollux (Prado).
The work is an outstanding example of neo-Attic eclecticism frequent at the end of the Roman Republic and during the first decades of the Roman Empire, around the Augustan period, combining two different aesthetic streams: whilst the right-hand youth is Polyclitean, the left-hand one is in a softer, more sensual and Praxitelean style.
Polyclitean Praxitelean right neo-Attic Roman Empire Roman Republic left