Greek Art (mostly ancient Roman copies):
“Head of
the Silenus Marsyas” Antonine copy of a bronze original by Myron of Eleutere
(about 500/440 BC)
“Head of the Kassel
Apollo”
Flavian copy from Phidias (about 490/430 BC) found during excavations at the
end of the nineteenth century in the Interior
Ministry on Viminal Hill
Two heads
of the “Doriforo (Spearman)” copies from originals by
Polykleitos of Argos (about 490/about 425 BC). The one found in the Baths of Caracalla accentuates
the pathetic expressiveness of the masterpiece by Polykleitos
“This copy
of the Late Hellenistic or Augustan period clearly shows the activity of the
copyist in the reinterpretation of some details: it was pointed out that, in
addition to extremely detailed performance of the locks, only the left side of
the face can be consistently associated with a Polykleitos' setting, probably
in correspondence with the angle from which the statue had to be visible. The
rest of the face is charged with a pathos totally new that emphasizes the
rotation of the face, the eyes more deeply hollowed, the mouth opened more,
thus destructuring the solidity of the facial scheme of Polykleitos” (Lucio
Fiorini)
Two heads
of the “Diadoumenos” one of them, beautiful, although
very worn, comes from Terracina, “Hercules”, “Athlete crowning himself” all
copies from originals by Polykleitos of Argos (about 490/about 425 BC)
“Herm of
Pericles” from original by Cresila
SIXTH ROOM
“Votive relief
dedicated to Apollo with Latona and Diana” original attic 370/360 BC
“Head of Apollo
Lyceum” by
Praxiteles (about 395/326 BC)
“Wounded Bitch” Roman copy signed by Sopatro from Greek original by Lysippus (about 370/300
BC) in Pentelic marble
Pottery dating
from 700 to 400 BC
SEVENTH AND
EIGHTH ROOM
Roman art:
“Head of a Child” maybe Nero, part of the
Julio-Claudian family. It was found in the Villa
of Livia Ad Gallinas Albas at Prima Porta
“Fragment
of mosaic with partridges” also from the Villa of Livia Ad Gallinas Albas
“Bust of
youth of the gens Julia” from Pozzuoli
“Bust of a
Flavian Woman”
“Fragment
of a fresco with Hermaphrodite” (second century AD)
“Funeral palmirene
slabs”
(third century AD) from Palmyra in Syria
In
addition, “Ecclesia Romana” fragment of mosaic of the beginning
of the thirteenth century from the apse of the demolished Basilica of St. Peter
ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EXPLORATIONS
In the
underground ruins of a Roman building of the late antiquity, perhaps a domus
(house) with commercial function
