Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Niobe and Her Children [casts]
Image View:
Part of the group including rearing horse
Creator:
after unknown (Ancient Greek sculptor)
Location:
repository: Villa Medici (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
French Academy in Rome; gardens
GPS:
41.908 12.483
Date:
copies ca. 1965 (creation); original ca. 280 BCE (other)
Cultural Context:
Ancient Greek
Style Period:
Hellenistic
Work Type 1:
replica
Work Type 2:
cast (sculpture)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
cast stone and resin
Technique:
casting (process)
Measurements:
2.27 m (height, figure of Niobe)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Medici family; Niobe; Niobids
Description:
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.virtualu ffizi.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
6A2-I-R-VMG-NAHC-A14
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Niobe and Her Children [casts]