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Scopas, the third of this group of 4rh Century sculptors, worked a little earlier than either of the others and most of his work was done in the Greek colonies in Asia Minor. Nevertheless his influence was probably greater than that of either Praxiteles or Lysippus, for it was Scopas who introduced a more heightened and naturalistic expression into his figures and faces. He did this with such force that the direction which he had begun to explore spread to the mainland of Greece and continued as a major influence in its sculpture for more than a century after his death,
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Thus it would seem that the Museum’s lovely, nostalgic, sorrowing “Head,” possibly a fragment from a funerary monument or possibly the head of a goddess, was created more under the influence of Scopas than of Praxiteles or Lysippus. Praxiteles’ refinement of grace and beauty and Lysippus’ tendancy to create types and commemorative sculpture are not as evident in this head as Scopas’ pathos and dramatic force And this influence of Scopas also puts the Museum’s head into the mainstream of 4th Century B. C. Greek art, for it was the major influences on suceeding generations of Greek sculptors.
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