Collection place: Tuscany, Central Italy / Maker or artist: Giuseppe Lelli - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-8, described as Cast of bust of Julia, daughter of Titus, with a modern inscription IVLIA-T (iti) FILIA. Original marble in Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Wrestlers, Venus (Greek: Aphrodite), Apollo, Faun, Julia, horse, and statuette are all the works of Guiseppe Lelli, Florence. All damaged.

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-4, described as Cast of group of The Wrestlers. Copy of a marble sculpture in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The restorer (sometime in 1583 AD) was wrong to let the victor strike his opponent. The conditions of the contest forbade this, and required the victor to compel a surrender. The under man is unbeaten. New parts: all four tibias, the victor’s right arm, The other wrestler’s left hand. Both heads are antique but not pertinent. They belonged to the Hiobids. Compare Freiderichs-Wolters, Die Gipsabgusse 1426. Original found with the Hiobid statues near St. John Lateran, Rome, in 1583. Was in Villa Medici, Rome. Was set up in Florence in 1677, where it occupies a place of honor (The Tribuna).

Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-7, described as Cast of Apollino of the Tribuna, once in Villa Medici. Antique copy of a IV century Greek work, probably in the Lyksion, Athens. Both hands are new. From the School or studio of Praxiteles. Tribuna Room of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-6, described as Cast of Faun of the Tribuna. The Faun beats time with cymbals and a wooden contrivance. The head is a restoration by Michelangelo. Original statue in the Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-5, described as Cast of Venus of the Medici (Greek: Aphrodite). According to the inscription the statue is by Kleomenes of Athens, flourished 150 BC. but the inscribed face of the plinth is modern. A lead copy of an older inscription shows that is also was modern. Object details: Original statue of Parian marble was sold by Della Valle family to the Medici in 1584, and left Villa Medici for Florence in 1677. It occupies the place of honor in the Tribuna room of the Uffizi Gallery.