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PRIMO PORTICO 2, 3—CORTILE
3
From the time of Aldrovandi (p. 186) the statue has passed for
a statue of Augustus. But the features, the shape of the head, and the
arrangement of the hair are a!i opposed to this identification. Nor can
any other member of the imperial house be suggested with more proba-
bility. The statue is, however, probably a work of the julio-Claudian
period, though G. Mancini (A*/-*//. Ccwj. li (1923), p. 181, no. 23) believes it
to be Augustan. It represents an unknown naval commander of the time.
The provenance is unknown. The statue was acquired from Bishop
Alessandro Rufini with No. 1 (q. v.).
Inv. 1692.
Drawings: dW. f. 69 ; Dosio, 6W. f. 69, no. 160.
De Cavalieriis, i, H. 71 (CcA. 13); Vaccaria, 10; Franzini, E 11; Perrier, 16;
Maffei-de Rossi, 16; Montagnani-Mirabifi,ii. 117; Righetti, i. 132; Armellini, ii.
203; Clarac, 912 A, 2331 A(p. 360R); Bernoulli, Ao7,v./4w;.ii(i),p. 24(3), 73 f.;
HelbigS, 886.
Alin. 6027; M. 10421.
3. STATUE OF MAENAD (pi. l).
H. 2.33 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : head and neck/ r. arm from above
elbow, 1. arm, patches on garlands.
Statue of Maenad standing with weight on r. leg and 1. drawn
back. She is dressed in long tunic with short sleeves, which falls to the
ground and is girt with a belt below the breasts. Over the tunic is
the skin of a calf or goat, the mask of which hangs down. Two thick
garlands of bay(?) leaves, bound at intervals by ribbons, cross the body
above the tunic and pass over each shoulder. The arrangement of the
drapery recalls, as pointed out by Amelung, that of the Artemis of
Dresden (Furtwangler, AAA, fig. 139 —A/IE, pi. 29), and the statue
may be looked upon as a dry copy, without much character, from an
original of the Attic School of the fourth century, probably in Cephisodotean
or early Praxitelean style.
From the Vatican, Inv. Boccapaduli 43 (probably bought from
Tommaso della Porta (Lanciani, A/crM, iii. 221)); formerly in the Cortile
del Belvedere, as shown in Lafrery's engraving (A^crzVzrw, 100, Hulsen).
Placed on its present pedestal in 1384 (Forcella, i. 83). Perhaps one of
the Muses (two pairs) mentioned by Deseine, A A<?^<?
(1690), ii, p. 333.
Inv. 1692.
Armellini, iii. 292; Clarac, 694 B, 1636 C (p. 389 R); .AmoO*. iii. 1,
p. rc7; Arndt-Amelung, 473, cf. text to Series IV, A^AAu^, p. 61 (Herrmann).
CORTILE
1) 3) 5*12. RELIEFS FROM THE HADRIANEUM (pis. 2, 3).
The reliefs of ' Provinces' and Trophies described under the follow-
ing numbers belong to a series of twenty-nine which have come to light
^ On careful examination the head seems modern; Clarac, however (A?e. H/.),
thought it antique though foreign to the statue, and more lately Herrmann (Ar. rA.)
seems to think that, though very much cleaned and worked over, it is antique and
belongs to the statue.
B 2
3
From the time of Aldrovandi (p. 186) the statue has passed for
a statue of Augustus. But the features, the shape of the head, and the
arrangement of the hair are a!i opposed to this identification. Nor can
any other member of the imperial house be suggested with more proba-
bility. The statue is, however, probably a work of the julio-Claudian
period, though G. Mancini (A*/-*//. Ccwj. li (1923), p. 181, no. 23) believes it
to be Augustan. It represents an unknown naval commander of the time.
The provenance is unknown. The statue was acquired from Bishop
Alessandro Rufini with No. 1 (q. v.).
Inv. 1692.
Drawings: dW. f. 69 ; Dosio, 6W. f. 69, no. 160.
De Cavalieriis, i, H. 71 (CcA. 13); Vaccaria, 10; Franzini, E 11; Perrier, 16;
Maffei-de Rossi, 16; Montagnani-Mirabifi,ii. 117; Righetti, i. 132; Armellini, ii.
203; Clarac, 912 A, 2331 A(p. 360R); Bernoulli, Ao7,v./4w;.ii(i),p. 24(3), 73 f.;
HelbigS, 886.
Alin. 6027; M. 10421.
3. STATUE OF MAENAD (pi. l).
H. 2.33 m. Pentelic marble. Restored : head and neck/ r. arm from above
elbow, 1. arm, patches on garlands.
Statue of Maenad standing with weight on r. leg and 1. drawn
back. She is dressed in long tunic with short sleeves, which falls to the
ground and is girt with a belt below the breasts. Over the tunic is
the skin of a calf or goat, the mask of which hangs down. Two thick
garlands of bay(?) leaves, bound at intervals by ribbons, cross the body
above the tunic and pass over each shoulder. The arrangement of the
drapery recalls, as pointed out by Amelung, that of the Artemis of
Dresden (Furtwangler, AAA, fig. 139 —A/IE, pi. 29), and the statue
may be looked upon as a dry copy, without much character, from an
original of the Attic School of the fourth century, probably in Cephisodotean
or early Praxitelean style.
From the Vatican, Inv. Boccapaduli 43 (probably bought from
Tommaso della Porta (Lanciani, A/crM, iii. 221)); formerly in the Cortile
del Belvedere, as shown in Lafrery's engraving (A^crzVzrw, 100, Hulsen).
Placed on its present pedestal in 1384 (Forcella, i. 83). Perhaps one of
the Muses (two pairs) mentioned by Deseine, A A<?^<?
(1690), ii, p. 333.
Inv. 1692.
Armellini, iii. 292; Clarac, 694 B, 1636 C (p. 389 R); .AmoO*. iii. 1,
p. rc7; Arndt-Amelung, 473, cf. text to Series IV, A^AAu^, p. 61 (Herrmann).
CORTILE
1) 3) 5*12. RELIEFS FROM THE HADRIANEUM (pis. 2, 3).
The reliefs of ' Provinces' and Trophies described under the follow-
ing numbers belong to a series of twenty-nine which have come to light
^ On careful examination the head seems modern; Clarac, however (A?e. H/.),
thought it antique though foreign to the statue, and more lately Herrmann (Ar. rA.)
seems to think that, though very much cleaned and worked over, it is antique and
belongs to the statue.
B 2