From a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, attributed to Praxiteles. Inv. No. S 267.Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, GalleryPhoto by Sergey Sosnovskiy
Aphrodite.
From a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, attributed to Praxiteles.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Gallery
(Roma, Musei capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo, Galleria).
In the 18th cent. — Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Hall of the Doves.
39. Head of Aphrodite (pl. 30).
H. 0.45 m., with foot 0.603 m.
Marble, grechetto.
Restored: nose, piece on forehead (in plaster), lobe of l. ear; the bust with the lower part of the neck.
The head is turned sharply towards her left shoulder and is tilted backwards rather than forwards. The mouth is slightly open, and the upper teeth are not visible or perhaps not given by the copyist. The hair drawn back rather tightly covers the upper third of the ear. A taenia is wound round the hair with a double twist. The hair-knot behind is roughly blocked out and prolonged downwards on to the nape of the neck, forming a kind of support to the latter.
The head is a poor but careful copy on a small scale of the Aphrodite attributed (on the basis of the coins of Cnidus) to Praxiteles.
This head (which stood in the Sala delle Colombe in the eighteenth century) was traditionally known as “Niobe”.
Doubtless from the Albani collection, but not certainly to be identified.
Mori, IV, Misc. 8, 3;
Armellini, III. 243, 3;
Furtwängler, MW, p. 551, note 2, No. 13 = MP, p. 322, note 3, No. 13;
Klein, Praxiteles, p. 252, note 2 B, Heads No. 8.
2005. Text: museum information (E).
© 2020. Add. information: http://arachne.uni-koeln.de.
© 1912. Description: H. Stuart Jones, A catalogue of the ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome. The sculptures of the Museo Capitolino. Oxford, 1912. P. 113, no. 39, pl. 30.
