Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Three Roman Fragments: Bust of a Satyr; Funeral Urn; Funerary Altar
Image View:
Detail, gray marble bust from left side
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient) sculptors)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo Altemps; Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46; Boncompagni Ludovisi Collection
GPS:
41.900935 12.473053
Date:
fragments, 1st century CE (inclusive)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
altar (religious building fixture)
Work Type 2:
sculpture (visual work)
Work Type 3:
relief (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
Lunense marble; gray marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Subjects:
death or burial; funerary art; decorative arts; mythology (Classical); Restoration and conservation; epigraphy; assemblage; pastiche
Description:
This is an assemblage, created in the 19th century, of different ancient Roman fragments. The funerary altar dates from the 1st century CE and was from the Cesarini collection and then passed to the Boncompagni Ludovisi collection. Lunense marble. Restored in the fifteenth century with the addition of a Christian inscription. On top of this altar is a funeral urn with no lid originally from the collection of Cardinal Giovanni Ricci (Montepulciano); dated at the end of the first century CE. This urn supports the gray marble Bust of a Satyr from Aphrodisias, Turkey with inset eyes, also 1st century CE. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-G-PAL-TOS-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Three Roman Fragments: Bust of a Satyr; Funeral Urn; Funerary Altar