SOFOCLE -- Belvedere, found in Terracina, in 1830, given to GREGORIO XVI by the Antonelli family -- now in the Museo Laterano, Roma.
Speranza
Portrait of the poet
Sophokles.
- Height: 2.14m.
- marble statue.
- The statue:
- is known as the Lateran Sophokles.
- is possibly a version of the bronze statue set up in the Theatre of Athens at the suggestion of Lykourgos in about 340 BC.
- was found in Terracina in 1839.
- was given to Pope Gregory XVI by the Antonelli family.
- is now in Rome, Museo Laterano, inv. 9973.
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