Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Aesculapius

Preferred Title: 
Aesculapius
Image View: 
Overall view from the front
Creator: 
after Timotheos (Greek (ancient) sculptor, active 380-350 BCE); unknown (Ancient Roman)
Location: 
repository: Musée du Louvre (Paris, Île-de-France, France) Ma 639 (LL14)
Location Note: 
Purchased in 1815, Albani Collection
GPS: 
+48.861045+2.335787
Date: 
Roman copy 2nd century CE (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Ancient Roman; Greek (ancient)
Style Period: 
Classical; Greco-Roman
Work Type 1: 
sculpture (visual work)
Classification: 
sculpture
Material: 
marble
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Measurements: 
2.30 m (height)
Description: 
Roman copy after an original created in the first half of the 4th century BCE by Timotheos. Restored by the workshop of B. Cavaceppi in the 18th century. The statue belonged to a group of ten divinities formerly displayed in the semicircular portico of the Villa Albani. Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), the nephew of Pope Clement XI, was one of the greatest collectors in 18th-century Rome. The collection he installed in the Villa de la Porta Salaria, inaugurated in 1763, was widely studied. It was there that Winckelmann and Cavaceppi laid the foundations for modern art history and restoration. (Source: Louvre Museum [website]; http://www.louvre.fr/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Eight
Identifier: 
7A3-G-L-ES-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.