DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.15091#0054
PLATE XIII.
A female head, larger than life. It has been generally supposed
to represent Juno, but it certainly differs in several respects from
the representations we are acquainted with of that goddess, as the
head is not crowned with a diadem, the eyes are smaller, and the
countenance is expressive of less austerity than we usually see in
the heads of Juno. We are therefore more inclined to think with
the author of " Specimens of Antient Sculpture," that it may
perhaps have been intended for ahead of Venus :(i) but, on the
whole, it appears to us still more probable that it has belonged to
a statue of Dione,(2) the mother of Venus, to whom the matronly
character of countenance here pourtrayed seems to be particularly
appropriate.
The ears have been pierced to receive ear-rings; and the hair,
which is parted in a straight line down the middle of the head, is
disposed on each side in wavy locks, very much in the same style as
in the statue of Venus found at Ostia.(3)
The whole of the head, with the exception of the nose, is antique,
but the bust is modern. It is not known where this head was
discovered.
Height, 1 foot 9~ inches.
1 Specimens of Antient Sculpture published by the Society of Dilettanti, vol. i. pi. xlii.
1 ■-'-sparri re Aicuvjj.
Hesiod. Deor. Gen v. 353.
3 Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, Part I.
pi, viii.
A female head, larger than life. It has been generally supposed
to represent Juno, but it certainly differs in several respects from
the representations we are acquainted with of that goddess, as the
head is not crowned with a diadem, the eyes are smaller, and the
countenance is expressive of less austerity than we usually see in
the heads of Juno. We are therefore more inclined to think with
the author of " Specimens of Antient Sculpture," that it may
perhaps have been intended for ahead of Venus :(i) but, on the
whole, it appears to us still more probable that it has belonged to
a statue of Dione,(2) the mother of Venus, to whom the matronly
character of countenance here pourtrayed seems to be particularly
appropriate.
The ears have been pierced to receive ear-rings; and the hair,
which is parted in a straight line down the middle of the head, is
disposed on each side in wavy locks, very much in the same style as
in the statue of Venus found at Ostia.(3)
The whole of the head, with the exception of the nose, is antique,
but the bust is modern. It is not known where this head was
discovered.
Height, 1 foot 9~ inches.
1 Specimens of Antient Sculpture published by the Society of Dilettanti, vol. i. pi. xlii.
1 ■-'-sparri re Aicuvjj.
Hesiod. Deor. Gen v. 353.
3 Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, Part I.
pi, viii.