Relief with dancing female figures
Neo-Attic work.
Pentelic marble.
First half of the 2nd cent. CE. Inv. No. 324.Florence, Uffizi GalleryPhoto by Ilya Shurygin

Relief with dancing female figures.

Neo-Attic work.
Pentelic marble.
First half of the 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 324.

Florence, Uffizi Gallery
(Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi).

Private collection, Medici.
Origin:
Formerly in Rome, in the Palazzi Valle-Capranica, then in the Villa Medici. Entered the Uffizi in 1783.
Description:

Relief with dancing female figures

First half of the 2nd century AD.
Pentelic marble.
Inv. 1914 n. 324.
Provenance: formerly in Rome, in the Palazzo Valle-Capranica, then in the Villa Medici; entered the Uffizi in 1783.

This relief, a neo-Attic work from the early years of Hadrian’s rule, combines elements based on reliefs from the end of the 5th century and the second half of the 4th century BC. It shows a dance of the Horai, who in Greek mythology personified the Seasons, and of the Aglaurids, the daughters of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, and of Aglaurus. Modem restoration (partly by 18th century sculptor Cavaceppi) can be seen almost everywhere on the left-hand figure, on the left arm of the central one and on the third figure’s right arm and drapery, as well as in the background.

Credits:
© 2019. Photo: Ilya Shurygin.
Info: the museum annotation.
THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART
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