Statua di Orfeo tra gli animali
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
II secolo a.C.
Material and technique:
Peperino
Origin:
Roma, Via Tiburtina - presso la Basilica di San Lorenzo (1878)
Inventory:
MC1699
Masterpieces of the hall
The hall
A coherent group of sculpture in peperine (a stone from the Albani Hills), broken into fragments which were then reused in a renaissance wall, discovered near the Church of San Lorenzo.
Several of these statues, brought together in the Capitoline collections, represent female figures, Orpheus among the animals, and a barbarian; they are carefully worked, using Hellenistic models of the Pergamon school from the late IIIrd – early IVth centuries BC.