drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2013,5015.1.15
- Description
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Study of fragments of a sarcophagus lid showing two Sirens and dramatists; formerly in the Villa Altieri, now lost. From a volume of 146 drawings illustrating Roman sculpture
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1710-1730 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 666 millimetres (of volume)
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Width: 559 millimetres (of volume)
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Width: 427 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- For a description of the volume and bibliography, see 2013.5015.1.1
This is a preliminary drawing of ECL-Bm.4:39-2012
The lid was complete in Dal Pozzo's time (see 2005,0926.12) and was probably already in the Vatican gardens where, in 1683, it was seen by Fabretti. This drawing, produced around 1710-1730, shows two parts of the lid joined together and we know from the annotation that it was in the Villa Altieri at this time. It was still in there when it was drawn by Braun (Annali dell'Instituto XXXI 1859) but sometime after this the two fragments were separated. The fragment with the Sirens was last recorded as being in the Sapienza but then all trace was lost, and in 1889 the other fragment was no longer to be found in the Villa Altieri.
See:
- Carl Robert, ASR II, no.141
- Giandomenico Spinola, 'Le sculture nel Palazzo Albertoni Spinola a Roma e le collezioni Paluzzi ed Altieri', (1995), fig. 46
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2013,5015.1.15
