Athena Giustiniani
- Title:
- Athena Giustiniani
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
second half of 2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
4th c. BCE (Greek original)
2009 (image)
- Site:
- Rome, Italy (reported discovery site) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Rome, Italy (reported discovery site) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0315a
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 251
315 - File Name:
- CCC_0315a.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 225 (H) cm (complete statue)
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial (Antonine), after Greek Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (Roman copy)
bronze (Greek original) (original) - Subject:
- Athena (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 17 x 13 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- This is a fragment from a cast of the Athena Giustiniani. Preserved here is a portion of the neck of the statue with attachment points for the figure's head.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
- Bibliography:
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 269-270
P.P. Caproni and brother, Catalogue of Plaster Reproductions from Antique, Medieval and Modern Sculpture (Boston, MA, 1911), 12 - Related Work:
- Probably joins with ID nos. 315, 152.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Vatican, 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.