Hestia Giustiniani

Roman copy of an early Classical Greek bronze original.

The sculpture was known in Rome from at least the early seventeenth century, when it ranked as one of the best pieces. Hestia is the Greek name for Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. This is a traditional but uncertain name for the sculpture; it may represent Hera or Demeter

Number

105

Material

Marble

Location of Original

Rome, Museo Torlonia. Formerly in the Palazzo Giustiniani, Rome

Size

1.93m

Accession

Purchased in 1884 from Lehman of Dresden

References

Lippold: Griechische Plastik, 104 (n.8), pl. 47.1
Richter: Sculpture & Sculptors of the Greeks (1950), 91, fig.257
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 29, no.113
Reporter: 19 June 1885, 891, no.105 (coincidentally)

Date

Roman, second century CE. Original; c.460 BCE

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