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拍品专文
This splendid lifesized head of the queen of the gods is closely related to a monumental example now in Palazzo Altemps in Rome, no. 41 in A. Giuliano, ed., Museo Nazionale Romano: Le Sculture, vol. I, 5. The two figures share the same unadorned, high-arching, crescentic diadem and wavy center-parted hair swept back, with distinguishing locks escaping before her ears. Also similar is the modeling of the face with its rounded chin and lips deeply drilled at the corners. The present head, although more idealized, also compares with the so-called Juno Ludovisi, thought to represent Antonia Minor in the guise of the goddess, now also in Palazzo Altemps (see pp. 183-185 in M. De Angelis d’Ossat, Scultura Antica in Palazzo Altemps). This head, like the two in Rome, are all likely based on a Greek original from the 5th century B.C. See also the ancient head of Juno formerly in the Ludovisi collection now on a colossal statue of a Muse in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (C. Kondoleon, Juno: A Colossal Roman Statue, p. 47) and another head in Venice (no. 132 in A, Kossatz-Deissman, "Hera," LIMC, vol. IV). Contrary to the related examples cited here, the almond-shaped eyes on the present example are hollowed for the insertion of now-missing inlays.
This head was first photographed in a private collection in Rome in 1929 by Cesare Faraglia (1865-1946). He was the archaeological photographer of choice for the most prominent Roman scholars and collectors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Ludwig Pollak and Giovanni Baracco. Faraglia is most known for his work in association with the British School at Rome and with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, for whom this head was photographed. To emphasize his close connection with these institutions, Faraglia advertised himself as photographer of “Institutes and Archeological Schools,” as reproduced on his stamps and advertisements (see R. Bucolo, “Cesare Faraglia (1865-1946)," The British School at Rome Fine Arts Archive, 28 January 2022).
This head was first photographed in a private collection in Rome in 1929 by Cesare Faraglia (1865-1946). He was the archaeological photographer of choice for the most prominent Roman scholars and collectors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Ludwig Pollak and Giovanni Baracco. Faraglia is most known for his work in association with the British School at Rome and with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, for whom this head was photographed. To emphasize his close connection with these institutions, Faraglia advertised himself as photographer of “Institutes and Archeological Schools,” as reproduced on his stamps and advertisements (see R. Bucolo, “Cesare Faraglia (1865-1946)," The British School at Rome Fine Arts Archive, 28 January 2022).