Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Female Deity with Infant Triton
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Female Deity with Infant Triton
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Alternate Title:
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Tethys and Infant Triton
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Image View:
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Overall view from front right
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Creator:
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after Eutychides (Ancient Greek sculptor, flourished late 4th-early 3rd centuries BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 121987
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Location Note:
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Palazzo Massimo alle Terme; Largo di Villa Peretti, 2
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GPS:
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+41.901359+12.498249
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Date:
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2nd century CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Imperial (Roman)
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Subjects:
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deities; mythology (Classical); Triton (Greek deity); marine deity
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Description:
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Seated on a throne a female deity is flanked by a Triton. The work is inspired by a Hellenistic model, the Tyche of Antioch, a personification of the city, by Eutychides (ca. 290 BCE). The Roman reworking of this theme incorporates a marine deity, the small Triton. The work has been variously interpreted as Tethys, the mother of river gods and Oceanids, or Thetis, the mother of Achilles or as Amphitrite, wife of Neptune. Found in Rome, via Marsala near the Termini Station in 1941. (Source: Museo Nazionale Romano; http://archeoroma.beniculturali.it/en/node/482)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-PM-FDT-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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