Fragment of the head of Athena completed in plaster
Part of an acrolith.Ca. 460 BCE. Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Profane Museum
Fragment of the head of Athena completed in plaster.
Part of an acrolith.
Ca. 460 BCE.
Ca. 460 BCE.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Profane Museum
(Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo gregoriano profano).
Description:
A Head of Athena, dating from around 460 BC and ascribable to the cultural environment of Magna Graecia, was once part of an acrolith, an archaic type of statue where limbs and head were made of precious materials like marble and ivory and the rest of the body with other materials, such as wood covered with sheets of precious metal. The most famous example is the chryselephantine statue of Athena in the Parthenon, a work by Phidias. This head is embellished with various insertions: chalcedony for the eyeballs, bronze strips for the eyelashes and glass paste for the pupils, no longer in place.
Credits:
© 2007. Photo, text: Pomella A. «Vatican Museums». Edizioni Musei Vaticani. P. 203.
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