Chiaramonti Niobid
- Title:
- Chiaramonti Niobid
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (Roman copy)
possibly Skopas or Praxiteles (Greek original)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
later 1st c. to early 2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
end of 4th c. BCE (Greek original)
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Italy (discovery site, mid 16th c.) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, Italy (discovery site, mid 16th c.) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0126
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 265
126 - File Name:
- CCC_0126.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 176 (H) cm (complete statue)
- Culture:
- Roman, after Hellenistic
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Hellenistic Greek
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Niobe (Greek mythology)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 100 (maximum) x 104 x 50 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a section of a cast of the Chiaramonti Niobid, a depiction of one of the daughters of Niobe fleeing the vengeful wrath of Artemis and Apollo. As complete, the figure runs with her left leg extended and right leg back, her windswept drapery suggesting rapid movement. Cornell's cast of the Chiaramonti Niobid was produced in at least three sections. This section of the cast preserves the figure's headless (in the original) torso. She wears a short-sleeved chiton, belted at the upper waist with a thin rope, and a heavy cloak that encircles her body and flows behind her head and hips. She holds her right arm up and out to the side. Her left arm is bent at the elbow and her cloak is draped over it. The lower parts of both arms are missing in the original. The section is cut at the tops of her thighs. This upper section of the cast is in a decent state of preservation, with several chips and a hole at the neck. The lower sections of the cast (ID no. 167) are in poorer states of preservation. In its original state, the statue would probably have been part of a group consisting of Niobe and her daughters and sons shot down by Artemis and Apollo, as a less detailed duplicate of this statue in Florence demonstrates (Uffizi inv. no. 300). The original was discovered in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli in the mid sixteenth century. It is a Hadrianic era copy of a Hellenistic group dated to the later fourth century BCE and uncertainly attributed to Skopas or to Praxiteles on the basis of style and a reference in Pliny (HN xxxvi.4).
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Gregoriano Profano, no. 1035 - Bibliography:
- Brunilde S. Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture I: The Styles of ca. 331-200 B.C. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 84, pl. 47
- Related Work:
- ID nos. 126, 167, 286, 417, and possibly 306 belong together.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Vatican Museums (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.