Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Relief with Nikai Leading a Bull to the Sacrificial Altar
Image View:
Overall view from front
Creator:
after Kallimachos (Ancient Greek sculptor, active 2nd half of 5th century BCE); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 1914 no. 330
Location Note:
Piazzale degli Uffizi
GPS:
43.768639 11.255214
Date:
ca. 100-150 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Greco-Roman; Neo-Attic
Work Type 1:
relief (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
Pentelic marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
animal; mythology (Classical); Athena (Greek deity); Bull; animal sacrifice
Description:
Formerly in Rome, Villa Medici; entered the Uffizi in 1783. This relief, product of a Neo-Attic workshop, reproduces models based on the friezes on the balustrade (the Nike Parapet) carved with Nikai that surrounded the Temple of Athena Nike on the Athens Acropolis. The temple was begun around 420 BCE to celebrate victory over the Persians. This copy dates from the first half of the second century CE. [Information on museum label.]
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-UG-RNLB-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Relief with Nikai Leading a Bull to the Sacrificial Altar