Juno Ludovisi

Juno Ludovisi
Created1st century A.D.
PlacePalazzo Altemps
Present locationRome
Identificationinv. 8631
Landscape with Roman Ruins by Herman Posthumus (1536), a collage of Roman ruins with the bust at the forefront (Collection: Liechtenstein Museum)[1][2]
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The Juno Ludovisi (also called Hera Ludovisi) is a colossal Roman marble head of the 1st century CE from an acrolithic statue of an idealized and youthful[3] Antonia Minor as the goddess Juno.[4] Added to the Ludovisi collection formed by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, it is now in the Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

Casts of it are in the University of Cambridge Classics Department Casts Gallery, UK;[5] Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA;[6] the Goethehaus in Weimar, Germany; George Mason University, Johnson Center, Fairfax, USA;[7] the University of Helsinki, Department of Art History, Finland;[8] and the University of Tartu Art Museum, Estonia.[9]

  1. ^ Curran, Brian A. (2018-07-24), Holleran, Claire; Claridge, Amanda (eds.), "The Renaissance: The "Discovery" of Ancient Rome", A Companion to the City of Rome, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 643–671, doi:10.1002/9781118300664.ch32, ISBN 978-1-118-30066-4, S2CID 194866882, retrieved 2023-08-07
  2. ^ "Herman Posthumus". Liechtenstein. The Princely Collections, Vaduz–Vienna. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  3. ^ "The coiffure of Antonia's youth is characterized by a central part and round, braided hairknot" (K. Patricia Erhart, "A Portrait of Antonia Minor in the Fogg Art Museum and Its Iconographical Tradition", American Journal of Archaeology 82.2 (Spring 1978:193-212) (online abstract).
  4. ^ R. Tölle-Kasterbein, "Juno Ludovisi: Hera oder Antonia Minor?" Mitteilungen dI (A), 89 1974.
  5. ^ Museum of Classical Archaeology
  6. ^ Susan Wood, "Goddess or woman?"
  7. ^ Klassikstiftung Weimar, Goethes Wohnhaus,
  8. ^ Virpi Huhtala, "Taidetta kirjastossa" [Art in the Library], [1]
  9. ^ University of Tartu Art Museum

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