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Hunter Dukes

Hunter Dukes is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Peterhouse

The Eyes of Statues

By Hunter Dukes

Statues have a tendency to flicker between the quick and the dead. Lucian of Samosata describes a young man who spent his days before the Venus of Praxiteles, his sight fixed uninterruptedly upon her.

<em>Standing Male Worshiper</em> (detail), Sumerian, ca. 2900-2600 B.C. Gypsum alabaster, shell, black limestone, bitumen, 11 5/8 x 51/8 x 3 7/8 in. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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