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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Ludovisi Ares
Alternate Title:
Ludovisi Mars
Image View:
Detail, Eros/Cupid, restored (or added) by Bernini
Creator:
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian restorer, 1598-1680); unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptor)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy) inv. 8602
Location Note:
Palazzo Altemps; Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46; Ludovisi collection
GPS:
41.900935 12.473053
Date:
Roman copy, ca. 138-192 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Antonine; Greco-Roman
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
Pentelic marble; restored with Carrara marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Measurements:
1.56 m (height)
Subjects:
deities; mythology (Classical); Ares (Greek deity); Cupid (Roman deity); Mars (Roman deity)
Description:
The Ludovisi Ares is an Antonine Roman marble sculpture of Ares/Mars, a fine 2nd-century copy of a late 4th-century BCE Greek original, associated with Scopas or Lysippus. Ares/Mars is portrayed as young and beardless and seated on a trophy of arms, while an Eros plays about his feet. Rediscovered in 1622, the sculpture was apparently originally part of the temple of Mars (founded in 132 BCE in the southern part of the Campus Martius). It was acquired by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi and restored by Bernini. He refinished its surfaces and discreetly provided a right foot; he was probably largely responsible for the Eros/cupid. It was a sensational find and one of the featured antiquities to see on the "grand tour" of the 17th and 18th centuries. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-G-PAL-LA-A15
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Ludovisi Ares