Wednesday, January 4, 2017

FARNESINA PALACE ON VIA DEI BAULLARI (third part) - GIOVANNI BARRACCO MUSEUM OF ANCIENT SCULPTURE

Second Floor

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
“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
“Portraits of Sophocles, Euripides, Demosthenes and Epicurus”
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

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