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Dying Niobid
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Copy in plaster acquired in 1926 made on a Greek original from a temple pediment, made around 430 BCE, and brought to Rome in antique times, and found in 1906 in a garden once belonging to the historian Sallust ((ca. 86 – 35 BCE) and Roman emperors. Sallut served Gaius Julius Caesar and spoke in favor of the Roman Republic. Therefor he was considered a key person to the understanding of the virtues of Republican rule during the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth centuries. His taste for erotic and morbid sculptures like this one may have had an interest in itself. Two other, original sculptures from the same group is now at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
Title: Dying Niobid
Description:
Copy in plaster acquired in 1926 made on a Greek original from a temple pediment, made around 430 BCE, and brought to Rome in antique times, and found in 1906 in a garden once belonging to the historian Sallust ((ca.
86 – 35 BCE) and Roman emperors.
Sallut served Gaius Julius Caesar and spoke in favor of the Roman Republic.
Therefor he was considered a key person to the understanding of the virtues of Republican rule during the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth centuries.
His taste for erotic and morbid sculptures like this one may have had an interest in itself.
Two other, original sculptures from the same group is now at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
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