Collection place: Rome (modern city), Lazio, Central Italy / Donor: Alfred Emerson / Accession number: Acc.193 - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Cinerary urn (reproduction), accession number 21-49, described as Cast of Vase—Roman cinerary urn: fluted foot, torus, gadroons, 2 wyverns face 2 candelabra right and left of tablet framed in beads, which bears the inscription: AVRELio VICTORI.EQuitisSINGularis (TVRmae) IVRe CONSTANTINI. NATione DACVS ALLECTus Ex. ALA. I [rpima] ILLY.RICORum VIXit ANnos XXXIII MILitavit ANnos XIII. VLPIVS MACEDO. ET. VLPi(an)us MATERNVS. DVPLixi HEREDitate b.m.f. Under tablet, an Arabesque of Acanthus. Frize of bucrania and garlands. Fluted lid with bead acanthus ornaments. Vatican Museum--i.e. Museo Gregoriano, Vatical Palace. Place of discovery unrecorded to hand. The candelabra are a common sepulchral symbol.

Hearst Museum object titled Colossal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-273, described as Cast of colossal bust of Faustina the Elder (Annia Galeria Faustina), wife of Antoninus Pius. The identification is certain, proved by coins. Faustina was born in 105, and died in 141. From a marble in the Vatican, Rome. Restored: back and top of head, ears, nose, bust.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-47, described as Cast of terminal figure of Pan with a child on his left shoulder, to whom he shows a fruit. Location: Vatican Museum

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-48, described as Cast of terminal figure of Pan, wearing a nebris knotted on his left shoulder over tunic. A tiny boy (putto) perches on his right shoulder. The god has pointed ears, horns, and a goatee, like certain modern idealizations of Satan. He teases the child with an offer of fruit. Location: Vatican Museum

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-28, described as Cast of relief; The Three Graces. From a marble in the Vatican, found near St. John Lateran, 1769. New: left lower corner of plate, nose and right forearm of figure to right, small parts of feet of other two. Conjectured to be the antique copy of a sculpture by Sokrates of Athens. Fragment of other copies have been found at Athens. Also, location of the original relief on the Akropolis, see Bohn’s Propylaen, page 25. It was about 50 percent larger every way than the present copy. Another one from Grimani Collection disappeared in the Roman art trade. Friederichs-Wolters 118.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-46, described as Cast of three double heads, terminal, and of Archaistic model. They cap the marble legs of a table. Vatican Museum.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-44, described as Cast of three double heads, terminal, and of Archaistic model. They cap the marble legs of a table. Vatican Museum.