Villa Speranza
Friday, August 3, 2012
Il nudo maschile nella statuaria italiana a tutto tondo all'aperto: GIOVE -- the statue was known in 1785 in Roma, VILLA ALBANI
Speranza
A
hero
or god, probably
Zeus
. He may have held a sword, and scabbard or shield.
Plaster cast: Height: 2.39m.
Copy of a marble statue.
The statue:
is known as the Munich
Zeus
.
is a version of a Greek original of about 440 BC.
was known in 1785 in Rome, Villa Albani.
is now in Munich, Glyptothek, 295.
Look at casts showing
Zeus
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