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A ROMAN MARBLE ATHENA HEAD OF VESCOVALI TYPE

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Lot 39 | A ROMAN MARBLE ATHENA HEAD OF VESCOVALI TYPE
A ROMAN MARBLE ATHENA HEAD OF VESCOVALI TYPE

LATE FLAVIAN-EARLY TRAJANIC, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

14 in. (36 cm.) high





Provenance

Found in the early 1840s on the Gulf of Naples, reputedly between Pompeii and Castellammare.

With the sculptor Emil Wolff (1802-1879), Rome.

Acquired by Prince Friedrich Charles of Prussia (1801-1883), Schloss Glienicke, Berlin, prior to 1844 (probably acquired in Rome via the sculptor Emil Wolff).

Thence by descent to Franz Joseph Oskar Patrick Friedrich Leopold von Hohenzollern, Prince of Prussia, (1895-1959), Berlin and Lugano.

Fridolin (1903-1969) and Halina (1907-1989) Schwitter-Lagutt Collection, Basel, prior to June 1969.

Arachne Database Number: 34848.



Literature

H. Hettner, 'Pallas Tritogeneia' in Annali dell’Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, 16, 1844, pp. 112-132 (Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica IV, 1844, pl. 1).

K. O. Müller, Denkmäler der alten Kunst II, ed. F. Wieseler, 1856, p. 95, no. 198a, pl. XIX.

C. Friedrichs & P. Wolters, Die Gipsabgüsse antiker Bildwerke, Berlin, 1885, p. 555, no. 1483.

A. Furtwängler, 'Athene in der Kunst,' in W. H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexicon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Band I, Leipzig, 1884-1890, p. 703 and illustration.

W. H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexicon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie, Leipzig, 1884-1890, Band II (frontispiece).

T. Reinach, ‘Deux Athéna en bronze,’ in Gazette des Beaux Arts, 26, Paris, 1922, image on p. 29.

A. Schober, Jahreshefte des Österreichischen archäologischen Instituts in Wien, 23, 1926, p. 7 . fig. 2 (with incorrect caption).

E. Berger, Antike Kunst, 14, 1971, p. 137 Pl. 43, 3.

A. H. Borbein, 'Die Athena Rospigliosi,' in Marburger Winckelmann-Programm, 1970, p. 29, note 4.1.

G. B. Waywell, 'Athena Mattei,' in Annual of The British School at Athens, 66, 1971, p. 381, Athena Rospigliosi 7.

A. Houghton, 'A Pergamene Head of Athena,' in Getty Museum Journal, 11, 1983, p. 108, fig. 15.

H. Nehls, Italien in der Mark. Zur Geschichte der Glienicker Antikensammlung, Berlin, 1987, p. 100, note 287-288, fig. 69.

I. E. Altripp, 'Zu den Athenatypen Rospigliosi und Vescovali. Die Geschichte einer Verwechslung,' Archäologischer Anzeiger, 1996, p.87, fig. 15.

W. Schürmann, 'Der Typus der Athena Vescovali und seine Umbildungen,' in Antike Plastik, 27, 2001, p. 66, K4, fig. 4, pls. 40-41.

I. E. Altripp, Athenastatuen der Spätklassik und des Hellenismus, Cologne, 2010, pp. 322-333, Ve V5, pl. 49.



Exhibited

Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, 1970-2021 (Inv. No 236).



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Medium:Marble, Stone
Place of origin:Italy, Europe, Roman Empire
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