Object class: Statues / Donor: Alfred Emerson / Maker or artist: Leopoldo Malpieri - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Statue head (reproduction), accession number 21-35, described as Plaster cast of head of a girl bronzed dark. From a bronze in the Vatican Library.

Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-29, described as Winner of the girls’ footrace at Olympia. The restorer appears to have supposed the subject surprised. The palm branch on the stump indicates an athletic victory. It is an addition by the antique copyist of the early Greek bronze statue. So, doubtless, is the round plate under the girl’s right foot. She is running. A girls’ race was held at Olympia in honor of Hera. Winners were allowed to erect a statue. The original marble stands in the Gabinetto della Venere in the Vatican Museum. Belonged to the Barberini family. Sold it to Clement XIV. New: both arms from the middle of the humeri. Rayet, Monuments du l’art antique I 17 3 gives a Dodona statuette of a girl racer. Pausanias describes the racers’ dress as follows: V 16, 2: “They race with their hair loose. Their tunics reach a trifle short of their knees. And they bare the right shoulder and breast. The winners get an olive wreath and a share of the cow that has been sacrificed to Hera.” Fifth Century B.C.

Hearst Museum object titled Terminal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-25, described as Cast of terminal bust of a bearded Dionysos. From a marble in Villa Albani. The collection of the Villa Albani was hermetically closed in 1901-1902. Malpieri apparently confused this Dionysis with the larger ones on Villa Borghese. A similar bust in the University Museum (marble) is from the old stock of the same Villa Borghese Collection, not placed on exhibition there. Malpieri’s statement seems wrong.

Hearst Museum object titled Terminal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-31, described as Cast of terminal bust of Hephaistos (Hephaestus). From a marble found on Piazza di Spagna, Rome. Vatican Museum. Friederichs-Wolters 1541 published by Brunn Annali 1863. Monuments VI, plate 81.

Hearst Museum object titled Terminal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-36, described as Cast of terminal bust of Perikles, of certain identity, guaranteed by the antique inscription of a counterpart herma in the British Museum. Compare Visconti’s Iconographic greique plate 15. The signature, by Kresilas of Crete, of a portrait of P. on the Akropolis, is extant. Modern opinion sees copies of Kresilas’s work in the Vatican and London busts. Compare Furtwaengler’s Kresilas in his Masterpieces of Greek sculpture.