Marble Statue Of Jupiter

Dimensions 42 00 x 29 00 cm.
Marble statue of jupiter. A colossal marble statue of roman emperor claudius in the guise of jupiter. A superb roman marble statue of the god jupiter depicted standing he wears drapery slung over his left shoulder and around his waist revealing the well defined muscles of his torso an eagle resting against his feet with the wings partially spread its head now missing. Back almost without carving. He was the god of the sky and thunder.
The statue of olympian zeus was overlaid with gold and ivory. Life of jupiter birth. This was because he. The statue of jupiter in the hermitage collection is one of the largest sculptures from classical antiquity in any museum in the world.
The statue of jupiter is also a significant monument of the flavian era bearing the characteristic features of roman art of this period. The statue of jupiter in the hermitage museum is a colossal sculpture of the supreme ancient god created by an unknown roman master at the end of the 1st century ad. Small seated statue of jupiter the westmacott jupiter unknown roman empire 3rd century marble 55 5 cm 21 7 8 in reimagined by gibon design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light rays radiance. Iūpiter ˈjuːpɪtɛr or iuppiter ˈjʊpːɪtɛr from proto italic djous day sky patēr father thus sky father also known as jove gen.
The colossal statue of the supreme god was made by a roman sculptor of the flavian era. His brother s name was pluto and his sister was ceres. He is known as zeus in greek mythology. The statue was found during archaeological excavations at the villa of emperor domitian who reigned from 81 to 96 ad.
He is one of the most famous exhibits of the museum. The statue has features typical of flavian art such as pompousness emotion and dynamism. Iovis is the god of the sky and thunder and king of the gods in ancient roman religion and mythology jupiter was the chief deity of roman state religion throughout the republican and imperial eras until christianity. Although it was carved in a roman workshop in the first century a d the inspiration for this image of jupiter was a greek sculpture of the 430s b c the monumental gold and ivory statue of zeus created by the sculptor pheidias active 470 420 b c for zeus s temple at olympia.
From a theatre at lanuvio 1st century ce. The two stand on an integrated base. In imitation of this so called chryselephantine technique the roman sculptor used marble gilded wood and stucco for his jupiter. A marble statue of jupiter in the vatican museum of st peter s basilica rome italy a0wxy4 from alamy s library of millions of high resolution stock photos illustrations and vectors.