Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Cesi Juno
Alternate Title:
Giunone Cesi
Image View:
Overall view on pedestal
Creator:
unknown (Ancient Greek sculptor)
Location:
repository: Musei Capitolini (Rome, Lazio, Italy) Inv. Scu 731
Location Note:
Piazza del Campidoglio 1
GPS:
41.893021 12.4825
Date:
ca. 175-150 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Ancient Greek
Style Period:
Hellenistic; Pergamene (sculpture style)
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
deities; mythology (Classical); Attalid dynasty, 282 B.C.-133 B.C.; Greek Empire
Description:
Over-life-size female statue, named after the Cesi Collection that once housed it. The head, slightly small in comparison to the body, is turned towards the right. She wears a highly belted chiton and a mantle (himation), which falls heavily over her body. The arms are both modern restorations. Debate about the identification of the figure is still open and it has alternatively been interpreted as an Amazon, a Muse (Melpomene), Persephone and Juno. A Pergamene School original, either spoils of war or, more probably, commissioned by a Roman. The work dates to the second quarter of the second century BCE. (Source: Capitoline Museums [website]; http://en.museicapit olini.org/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-G-CM-GC-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Cesi Juno