Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Bust of Demeter
Alternate Title:
Demeter Ludovisi
Image View:
Detail, head and diadem with drapery
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 8596
Location Note:
Palazzo Altemps; Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46; Ludovisi Collection, from the Cesi Collection
GPS:
41.901172 12.473059
Date:
2nd century CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
coarse marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
deities; mythology (Classical); Ceres (Roman deity)
Description:
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek model of the 5th-4th centuries BCE. The female type with a veil that is held in place it by a high diadem follows the iconography for Demeter (Ceres), the goddess who protects the agricultural harvest. Perhaps it is an idealized portrait of a member of the imperial Roman family. The piece was drawn in 1570, when it was still part of the collection of the Cesi family, who were also tied to the Altemps, though two different branches. The tip of the nose is restored; the diadem was originally decorated with small pearls, now missing. (Source: Gallery of Ancient Art; http://ancientrome.r u/art/artworken/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-PAL-BOD-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Bust of Demeter