Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Niobe and Her Children [casts]
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Niobe and Her Children [casts]
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Image View:
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Group in the garden outside of the glyptotek (cast collection)
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Creator:
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after unknown (Ancient Greek sculptor)
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Location:
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repository: Villa Medici (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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French Academy in Rome; gardens
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GPS:
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+41.908+12.483
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Date:
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copies ca. 1965 (creation); original ca. 280 BCE (other)
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Cultural Context:
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Ancient Greek
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Style Period:
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Hellenistic
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Work Type 1:
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replica
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Work Type 2:
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cast (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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cast stone and resin
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Measurements:
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2.27 m (height, figure of Niobe)
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Subjects:
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mythology (Classical); Medici family; Niobe; Niobids
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Description:
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Group portraying Niobe and her children (originals at Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence). The copies were made at the initiative of Balthus, the Polish-French painter who was Director of the French Academy in 1961-977. A complex set of ancient statues found in Rome in 1583 near Porta S. Giovanni, they may have decorated the Horti Lamiani. At the Villa Medici they were originally placed at the end of the long alley which started at the entrance in Via di Porta Pinciana, until they were moved to Florence and the Uffizi. The original group (ca. 280 BCE) was probably set up by Seleukos, a king of Cilicia in south coastal Asia Minor. It was moved to Rome in 38 BCE to decorate the rebuilt temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius. (Source: Virtual Uffizi Gallery [website]; https://www.virtualuffizi.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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6A2-I-R-VMG-NAHC-A23
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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