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PAINTINGS REPRODUCTIONS
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YOUNG GIRL KNOWN AS SAPPHO
The young girl with delicate features, dainty hairstyle and golden hairnet holding her light brown curls, is holding the stylus against her lips while supporting a polyptych made up of four waxed tablets. Being turned three-quarters of a circle towards the left, the general impression of the portrait is more spontaneous than other similar "portraits". In effect this is the work of a particularly skilled artist who knew how to give a personal touch to subjects who had been painted time and time again; an example of this is the way the girl has the tablets turned towards her rather than towards the onlooker, and the rather affected manner with which she is holding the stylus against her lips thereby gives the impression of a slight pause for reflection before starting to write, an activity which in the Roman world was an almost exclusively female occupation.
Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
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