A superb roman marble statue of the god jupiter depicted standing he wears drapery slung over his left shoulder and around his waist revealing the well defined muscles of his torso an eagle resting against his feet with the wings partially spread its head now missing.
Marble statue of jupiter.
Saturn who was the previous king of the gods began to swallow the children that he had with his wife greek equivalent rhea when they were born.
The statue of olympian zeus was overlaid with gold and ivory.
Dimensions 42 00 x 29 00 cm.
His brother s name was pluto and his sister was ceres.
He was the god of the sky and thunder.
The statue has features typical of flavian art such as pompousness emotion and dynamism.
In imitation of this so called chryselephantine technique the roman sculptor used marble gilded wood and stucco for his jupiter.
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The statue of jupiter is also a significant monument of the flavian era bearing the characteristic features of roman art of this period.
He is one of the most famous exhibits of the museum.
Iuppiter is the king of the gods in roman mythology.
Although it was carved in a roman workshop in the first century a d the inspiration for this image of jupiter was a greek sculpture of the 430s b c the monumental gold and ivory statue of zeus created by the sculptor pheidias active 470 420 b c for zeus s temple at olympia.
From a theatre at lanuvio 1st century ce.
A colossal marble statue of roman emperor claudius in the guise of jupiter.
Back almost without carving.
The colossal statue of the supreme god was made by a roman sculptor of the flavian era.
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The statue of jupiter in the hermitage collection is one of the largest sculptures from classical antiquity in any museum in the world.
Small seated statue of jupiter the westmacott jupiter unknown roman empire 3rd century marble 55 5 cm 21 7 8 in reimagined by gibon design of warm cheerful glowing of brightness and light rays radiance.
The statue of jupiter in the hermitage museum is a colossal sculpture of the supreme ancient god created by an unknown roman master at the end of the 1st century ad.
The two stand on an integrated base.
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He is known as zeus in greek mythology.