Maybe
inspired by the model of the Hellenistic Tyche of Antioch, personification of
the city, the work of the Eutychides in about 290 BC
According
to Filippo Coarelli it is a Hellenistic work of the second century BC: Thetis,
mother of Achilles has just left the weapons his son requested and she is now
about to take flight
The son
Achilles would be the so-called Ares
Ludovisi in Palazzo Altemps with which this statue formed a
single group that adorned the Temple of Neptune in today's Jewish ghetto in
Rome
Both
statues were placed on a pedestal identified with the Altar of Domitius
Enobarbus fragments of which are now both in the Louvre and in Munich
Extraordinary
“Dionysus from the Tiber” second century AD in bronze, copy
of the original of the fifth century BC maybe by the workshop of Phidias known
as Woburn Abbey type
It was
found in the Tiber in 1885 during the foundation of a pylon of the Garibaldi Bridge
“The pose of
the body is still under the influence of Polycleitos, while the slight movement
of the head and the sinuous contour line of the flanks reveal the knowledge of
works by Praxiteles. (...) Zanker believes it is derived from the so-called
'athlete of Stephanos', a classicistic Roman creation of the first century BC
to which the hairstyle was added with long locks of wavy hair. The work would
be therefore an eclectic creation of the imperial period, a reflection of the
classical tastes of the time” (Brunella Germini)
“Sleeping
Hermaphrodite”
copy from the original by Polycles found in the area of the Opera Theater
Hermaphrodite
was born from the union of Hermes and Aphrodite, and was loved by the nymph
Salmacis who, once she was rejected, prayed to the gods so that they would be
indissolubly united: the prayer was answered literally and they were merged
into one being half man and half woman
“The complex
twisting movement of the figure is a compositional motif typical of the figures
of the late Hellenistic period. Another aspect revealing of the period of
composition of the work is its visual impact, i.e. the possibility to be
understood in different ways depending on the point of view” (Brunella Germini)
“Apollo Chigi” second century AD from
Castelporziano
“It is
recognizable as a classical type of work that is inspired by a Greek original
in bronze, dating from the fourth century BC. The presence of adult and ephebic
features and the contrast between the sharp forms of the body and the
chiaroscuro hair in curls are to be considered variations experimented within
the eclectic style. As a whole, these features occur in the statues of Antinous
and are likely to date the work to the second century AD” (Eleonora Ferrazza)
“Black
acrobat” from Via Nomentana
Two “Eros bending the bow” second century AD from an original
in bronze by Lysippus, one of which from Gabii in Parian marble
“Marching Diana with
quiver”
second century AD from the Villa
dei Quintili
“Statuette
of an actor dressed as a woman” second century AD
“Papposilenus” mid-imperial reworking of the
so-called Resting Satyr by Praxiteles (about 395/326 BC)
“Relief with maenad
and goat” of
the early second century AD, found in 1921 in Via Statilia, where the Horti
Lamiani used to be
“Relief with
sacred-idyllic landscape” of the second half of the second century AD, found in 1906 in Via del
Quirinale
A bucolic
scene beautifully frames Pan with his flute near a small temple with a statue
of Diana the huntress and the myth of Actaeon attacked by dogs represented in
the pediment
“Dionysus
Sardanapalus”
from the Appian Way formerly brought to Weimar by the Nazis to make the icon of
Nietzsche-Dionysos conceived by the philosopher Walter Otto and returned to
Rome in 1992
“The type,
of which more than ten replicas are known, derives its name from the
inscription 'Sardanapalus' visible on the Vatican replica, inscribed by the
rich owner of the villa in which it was found. He probably associated this sumptuous
image of the God to the one of the rich Sardanapalus, Assyrian king famous for
his opulent and dissipated costumes, as well as the fact that he used to wear
women's clothes” (Brunella Germini)
“Headless Apollo
playing a lyre” second century AD from the Villa dei Quintili
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