#musei capitolini
Bust of Medusa
By Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1640s.
Medusa, with a classically beautiful face and delicate features, sees herself in an imaginary mirror and is caught in the moment when she realizes the atrocious trick of fate, and before our eyes, her soft skin changes color, the writhing serpents in her hair paralyse and her expression of pain and anguish are forever captured in marble.
- Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.
Head of Anzio Apollo
Roman copy from the original Greek of the 4th century BC.
- Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums.
Statue of Flora
Roman artwork of the Imperial period with some modern alterations, from Hadrian’s Villa.
- Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums.
Statue of Antinous
Antinous represented as a Dionysiac figure. From the Via Modena, 1881.
- Centrale Montemartini, Rome.
Emperor Decius. C. 250 AD. Marble. Musei Capitolini, Rome.
myglyptothek: Faces of ancient Rome
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Portrait of emperor Septimius Severus. 193-211 AD. Marble. Musei Capitolini, Rome. Inv. S 364
myglyptothek: Faces of ancient Rome
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Detail of relief with Marcus Aurelius offering a sacrifice to Jupiter Capitoline. Relief panel comes from the decoration of a triumphal arch erected in 176 AD. in the Roman Forum at the foot of the Capitoline Hill to celebrate Marcus Aurelius’s victories over the Germanics and Sarmatians. Relief was created during Marcus Aurelius’s reign in the years from 177 to 180 AD. Musei Capitolini, Rome.
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