Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-21
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
8-5021 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.193
Description:
Cast of an apotheosis of Herakles (Latin: Hercules), representing the hero and 5 deities advancing to left: Demeter, Apollo, Athena, Ares, and Poseidon (Latin: Ceres, Apollo, Minerva, Mars and Neptune), Terracotta. No original for this relief has been traced. Its model is the Capitoline well kerb. A kindred relief in Munich is a forgery by Monti. So, probably, is this. There are 12 gods, in groups of six. Several suspicious points.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Manifattura di Signa, Florence, Tuscany
Verbatim coll. place:
Manifattura di Signa
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Person depicted:
Apollo (Greek and Roman diety), Ares (Greek deity), Athena (Greek deity), Demeter (Greek deity), Heracles (Greek and Roman diety), and Poseidon (Greek deity)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Athena
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-21, described as Cast of an apotheosis of Herakles (Latin: Hercules), representing the hero and 5 deities advancing to left: Demeter, Apollo, Athena, Ares, and Poseidon (Latin: Ceres, Apollo, Minerva, Mars and Neptune), Terracotta. No original for this relief has been traced. Its model is the Capitoline well kerb. A kindred relief in Munich is a forgery by Monti. So, probably, is this. There are 12 gods, in groups of six. Several suspicious points.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-21, described as Cast of an apotheosis of Herakles (Latin: Hercules), representing the hero and 5 deities advancing to left: Demeter, Apollo, Athena, Ares, and Poseidon (Latin: Ceres, Apollo, Minerva, Mars and Neptune), Terracotta. No original for this relief has been traced. Its model is the Capitoline well kerb. A kindred relief in Munich is a forgery by Monti. So, probably, is this. There are 12 gods, in groups of six. Several suspicious points.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-21, described as Cast of an apotheosis of Herakles (Latin: Hercules), representing the hero and 5 deities advancing to left: Demeter, Apollo, Athena, Ares, and Poseidon (Latin: Ceres, Apollo, Minerva, Mars and Neptune), Terracotta. No original for this relief has been traced. Its model is the Capitoline well kerb. A kindred relief in Munich is a forgery by Monti. So, probably, is this. There are 12 gods, in groups of six. Several suspicious points.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-21, described as Cast of an apotheosis of Herakles (Latin: Hercules), representing the hero and 5 deities advancing to left: Demeter, Apollo, Athena, Ares, and Poseidon (Latin: Ceres, Apollo, Minerva, Mars and Neptune), Terracotta. No original for this relief has been traced. Its model is the Capitoline well kerb. A kindred relief in Munich is a forgery by Monti. So, probably, is this. There are 12 gods, in groups of six. Several suspicious points.

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