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Graeco-Roman art.
GRAECO-ROMAN ART
Nos. 43-527 are mostly sculptures by Roman craftsmen, either
Empire copies of works of the grand art of Greece from the 5th
to the 2nd cent. B. C., or Roman decorative sculpture for the
adornment of public buildings or villas.
Nevertheless there are also original Greek works among them,
first and foremost the sepulchral sculptures and the votive reliefs,
Nos. 189 and 194-240, then Nos. 56 (?), 83, 143, 150 (?), 177, 290,
294, 304, 312, 317 a, 325, 329, 330 a, 344, 364, 397 a, 398, 399,
399 a, 400, 404.
A convenient survey of the original Greek works in the Glyp-
totek, from archaic to Roman times, is given in Fr. Poulsen:
Grseske Originalskulpturer. Kobenhavn 1934.
Regarding the Greek portraits, see the introduction preceding
No. 409.
43. (I. N. 1531). Aphrodite. Statue. M.
H. 1.52. Mistakenly restored as a Muse. The head, right arm and
hand with the fold, left breast and part of the left upper arm, left
forearm and several parts of the drapery and the feet formerly restored
in marble, presumably in the 18th cent. Most of those restorations
removed 1947. The plinth is not the original one. Acquired 1896 from
the Guggenheim palace in Venice.
This is the Goddess of Love, of a type which has numerous
copies, variants and replicas in reduced size; the most
complete and best replica is a statue in the Louvre (Br. Br.
473, cf. 694-95). Aphrodite is wearing a thin chiton fitting
the body closely and revealing her curves in all their
splendour, and, having slipped down from the left shoulder,
baring the left breast; over the chiton she has a heavy
cloak covering her back and twisted round her left arm,
while her right hand raises a corner of it over her right
shoulder. The weight of her body is on the left leg, the
right being bent and drawn back. The original head was
lowered and turned towards the figure’s left side. Our torso
seems to be a somewhat superficial copy of the basic type.
The original statue must have been an Attic bronze statue
of the last quarter of the 5th cent. B. C. This is shown by
the similarity with works such as the reliefs from the Nike
balustrade (cf. Rhys Carpenter: The Sculptures of the Nike
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GRAECO-ROMAN ART
Nos. 43-527 are mostly sculptures by Roman craftsmen, either
Empire copies of works of the grand art of Greece from the 5th
to the 2nd cent. B. C., or Roman decorative sculpture for the
adornment of public buildings or villas.
Nevertheless there are also original Greek works among them,
first and foremost the sepulchral sculptures and the votive reliefs,
Nos. 189 and 194-240, then Nos. 56 (?), 83, 143, 150 (?), 177, 290,
294, 304, 312, 317 a, 325, 329, 330 a, 344, 364, 397 a, 398, 399,
399 a, 400, 404.
A convenient survey of the original Greek works in the Glyp-
totek, from archaic to Roman times, is given in Fr. Poulsen:
Grseske Originalskulpturer. Kobenhavn 1934.
Regarding the Greek portraits, see the introduction preceding
No. 409.
43. (I. N. 1531). Aphrodite. Statue. M.
H. 1.52. Mistakenly restored as a Muse. The head, right arm and
hand with the fold, left breast and part of the left upper arm, left
forearm and several parts of the drapery and the feet formerly restored
in marble, presumably in the 18th cent. Most of those restorations
removed 1947. The plinth is not the original one. Acquired 1896 from
the Guggenheim palace in Venice.
This is the Goddess of Love, of a type which has numerous
copies, variants and replicas in reduced size; the most
complete and best replica is a statue in the Louvre (Br. Br.
473, cf. 694-95). Aphrodite is wearing a thin chiton fitting
the body closely and revealing her curves in all their
splendour, and, having slipped down from the left shoulder,
baring the left breast; over the chiton she has a heavy
cloak covering her back and twisted round her left arm,
while her right hand raises a corner of it over her right
shoulder. The weight of her body is on the left leg, the
right being bent and drawn back. The original head was
lowered and turned towards the figure’s left side. Our torso
seems to be a somewhat superficial copy of the basic type.
The original statue must have been an Attic bronze statue
of the last quarter of the 5th cent. B. C. This is shown by
the similarity with works such as the reliefs from the Nike
balustrade (cf. Rhys Carpenter: The Sculptures of the Nike
56