Roman copy of a Greek original. As with so many Greek bronzes, there were numerous such Roman replicas of the original. The workshop of a Roman copyist has been excavated in Baiae in the Bay of Naples, and casts of parts of this very Athena were found; the clearest evidence yet that Romans too made plaster casts and mass-produced copies of Greek originals for the Roman market
Number:
152
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Munich Glyptothek 213
Size:
1.05m
References:
Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 173 (n.4)
Furtwängler: Catalogue of the Munich Museum, 201, no.213
Howard in Journal of the History of Collections, vol.3, no.2 (1991), 203 (Los Angeles version)
Haskell & Penny: Taste and the Antique (1981), 284
Date:
Roman. Original: 430-420 BCE
Sculptor:
Of original: possibly Kresilas
Provenance:
Discovered in a ruined villa near Velletri, south east of Rome, in 1797
