Inv. Scu 652 This statue group depicts the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife Faustina the Younger costumed as the Greek deities Ares (god of war) and Aphrodite (goddess of love). Scholars believe the statues were modeled after two famous…
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Helmeted Head
Inv. Scu 581 Male head, wearing a richly decorated Attic style helmet, with a star with fourteen points above the forehead and animals (lion, bull, sphinx and griffin) on the top and back. Between the animals runs an elegant floral…
Female statue, so-called Aspasia Type
Inv. Scu 41 Marble statue made according to the type known as Aspasia and very popular in the Roman period, especially as the base of portrait heads. The female statue, in tunic and cloak, is characterized by the extreme rigidity…
Colossal Head of Constantine
Inv. Scu 1072 The Lateran was the original home to the Papal art collection before the building of the Vatican Palace during the Renaissance. Alongside the head was the fragment of a bronze hand and partial forearm, as well as…
Draped female statue restored as Muse
Inv. Scu 811 Female statue restored as Thalia, Muse of Comedy, through the addition of a flute in her left hand (only a fragment is still visible today) and a theatre mask in her right. The shoes, at the feet…
Portrait of a Barbarian
Inv. Scu 548 The portrait represents a middle-aged man with the head briskly turned to right. The hair, parted in the middle, falls in soft curls over the ears and neck; the beard is arranged in wavy, rather disordered locks.…
Female statue of the so-called Aspasia type
Inv. Scu 46 Parian marble statue made according to the type known as Aspasia in the Roman period, especially as the base of portrait heads. The type was made in Campanian area already in the 1st century BC, even if…
Relief with barbarians kneeling before Marcus Aurelius
Inv. Scu 809 The relief together with the other two panels walled in Shelf I of the staircase of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, it depicts an episode in the life of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The work comes from the decoration…
Female statue with cornucopia
Inv. Scu 51 The figure is wearing a sleeved chiton, girt with a belt just below her breasts. Over the chiton the figure wears a cloak that falls from the left shoulder and covers the legs almost entirely. The statue…
Female statue, Hygeia
Inv. Scu 1099 It depicts a standing female figure. Its head has been reattached to the body by means of a restoration that distorts the real torsion. Her weight is resting on the left foot, next to which there is…