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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Juno Ludovisi
Alternate Title:
Colossal head of Hera
Image View:
Overall side view from the right
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient))
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 8596
Location Note:
via Sant’Apollinare, 46 (Palazzo Altemps); Boncompagni Ludovisi Collection
GPS:
41.901169 12.473062
Date:
ca. 40-50 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
deities; mythology (Classical); portrait; rulers and leaders; Roman Empire; Roman Imperial family
Description:
The Juno Ludovisi (also called Hera Ludovisi) is a colossal Roman marble head of the 1st century CE from an acrolithic (composite) statue of an idealized and youthful Antonia Minor as the goddess Juno. Antonia Minor (31 January 36 BCE - September/October 37 CE) was the younger of two daughters of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor. She was a niece of the Emperor Augustus and mother of the Emperor Claudius. This work was admired by Wilckelmann, Goethe and Schiller. There is a cast of it in the Goethehaus in Weimar, Germany. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-PAL-HL-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Juno Ludovisi