Archaeologists Found an Ancient Workshop With Unfinished Statues Inside

Archaeologists Found an Ancient Workshop With Unfinished Statues Inside

The art once again transcends the artist.

Ancient Hellenistic sculpture workshop with unfinished statues unearthed at Floga site on Paros island, Greece

A newly excavated site on the Greek island of Paros has given a remarkable insight into the work and life of ancient sculptors. Led by Dr. Sofia Detoratou of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades, the archaeological team completed this year’s exploration at the Floga site in Paroikia, where evidence of a long-operating sculpture workshop dating from the Hellenistic era has surfaced. (Illustrative image) – Fragment of a Head, 440-430 BCE, O…

The subject of this article may a priori seem to profanes to be contradictory: can we speak of preparatory or unfinished "works" when the status of art and the legal protection resulting therefrom seem to be reserved only for "perfect" works, "finished" by their authors at the end of a singular intellectual and material creative process? These works, or, it should be said, these primitive "states" that precede or are concurrent to the creative p…