The Hellenistic period introduced the accurate characterization of age. Young children enjoyed great favor, whether in mythological form, as baby Herakles or Eros, or in genre scenes, playing with each other or with pets. This Eros, god of love, has been brought down to earth and disarmed, a conception considerably different from that of the powerful, often cruel, and capricious being so often addressed in Archaic poetry. One of the few bronze statues to have survived from antiquity, this figure of a plump baby in relaxed pose conveys a sense of the immediacy and naturalistic detail that the medium of bronze made possible. He is clearly based on firsthand observation. The support on which the god rests is a modern addition, but the work originally would have had a separate base, most likely of stone.
This statue is the finest example of its kind. Judging from the large number of extant replicas, the type was popular in Hellenistic and, especially, Roman times. In the Roman period, Sleeping Eros statues decorated villa gardens and fountains. Their function in the Hellenistic period is less clear. They may have been used as dedications within a sanctuary of Aphrodite or possibly may have been erected in a public park or private, even royal, garden.
https://open.substack.com/pub/friedrichfaust/p/how-liberalism-has-given-rise-to?r=1wlet9
Just used the image in a substack post. Hegel thought of ancient Greeks as the perfect balance. (Simplified idea)
Similarly a Kandinsky picture in there. Some scholars connect the philosophical trajectory of Hegel's ideas to abstract art. Artists like Kandinsky are studied for their attempts to express purely spiritual or intellectual content ("the spiritual in art") where the sensible, physical element is almost entirely negated—a process that arguably follows a logical, dialectical path away from physical representation.