Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

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English: The Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, situated near the Thermae of Diocletian, is a part of the National Museum of Rome. It is dedicated to Greek and Roman sculpture, frescoes mosaics and Epigraphy.

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[edit] Portraits

[edit] Republican era

  • 3rd-2nd centuries BC

  • Priest of Isis, middle 1st century BC

  • middle of the 1st century BC.

  • Late 1st century BC

  • Period of the Second Triumvirate (43 BC)

  • So-called “Brutus”, 30-15 BC

  • Young woman

  • Portrait of an old woman with the “nodus” (knot) hairstyle favoured by Octavia, sister of Emperor Augustus. Late 1st century BC.

[edit] Early Imperial era

  • Portrait of a boy

  • Portrait of a boy

  • Augustus as pontifex maximus

  • Augustus as pontifex maximus

  • Germanicus

  • Head of Apollo. Marble, Roman copy

  • Agrippina minor

  • Antonia minor

  • Claudia Octavia

  • Philip V of Macedon

  • Poppaea Sabina

[edit] Late Imperial era

[edit] Roman copies after Greek originals

  • Portrait of Epicurus

  • Portrait of Herodotus

  • Double herma of Homer (Apollonius of Tyana type) and Menander

  • Portrait of Sappho (modern copy (16th–18th centuries) after a Greek original, possibly an ancient bust reworked.)

  • Portrait of Socrates

[edit] Statues and reliefs

[edit] Greek originals and Roman copies

  • “Athena Carpegna”: cult statue of Athena with the face of the type of Carpegna Athena.

  • Intaglio with the head of Athena Parthenos. Bloodstone, Greek artwork, 1st century CE (modern mount).

  • Detail of a statue of Dionysus of the Sardanapalos type

  • “Hermes psychopompus”: statue of the Ludovisi Hermes type.

  • Wounded Niobid. Parian marble, Greek artwork, ca. 440 BC

  • Statue of a prince or dynast without crown, traditionnally thought to be a Seleucid prince, maybe Attalus II of Pergamon.

  • Statue of a Seleucid prince

  • Statue of a Seleucid prince

  • “Thermae boxer”: athlete resting after a boxing match

  • “Thermae boxer”

  • “Venus pudica”, one of the types of the Cnidian Venus

  • Anzio Apollo

  • Apollo (Castelporziano)

  • Statue of Thetis with a triton.

  • Tiber Apollo

  • Tiber Apollo

  • Castelporziano Discobolus

  • Lancellotti Discobolus

  • Maenad dancing, detail from a base. Marble, modified copy of a Greek original of the late 5th century BC.

[edit] Roman originals

  • Antinous as Bacchus, harvesting grapes

  • Sarcophagus with battle scene between Romans and Germans. Marble, Roman artwork, 180–190 CE.

  • Sarcophagus with battle scene between Romans and Germans. Marble, Roman artwork, 180–190 CE.

  • Actor playing a slave and wearing a comic mask. Bronze statuette, early 3rd century CE.

  • Representation of the lupercal: Romulus and Remus fed by a she-wolf, surrounded by representations of the Tiber and the Palatine.

  • Funerary relief representing a curule chair. Marble, Roman artwork, 50 BC–50 CE.

[edit] Artwork

[edit] Roman artwork

  • Doll. Coloured ivory, Roman work, second half of the 2nd century CE

  • Bluish glass cup with gadroons decoration, Roman artwork, 1st century BC/CE.

  • Two-handled amphora-shaped balsamarium (perfume flask). Purple glass, 1st-2nd centuries CE.

  • Necklace. Gold and glass paste, Roman artwork, 6th–5th centuries BC.

[edit] Mosaics

  • Central panel of a floor mosaic with a cat and two ducks

  • Central panel of a floor mosaic with a cat and two ducks, detail

  • Floor mosaic with a duck

  • Dionysos fighting the Indians

  • Pavement mosaic with a bust of Dionysos. Roman artwork, 3rd century CE.

  • Hercules and Iolaus, Fountain mosaic from the Anzio Nymphaeum.

  • Nilotic landscape with ducks

  • Head of a satyr

  • Head of Pan

  • Mosaic emblema with charioteer

  • Mosaic emblema with charioteer

[edit] Opus sectile

  • Floral decoration

  • Griffin

  • Rape of Hylas

[edit] Frescos

  • Dea Barberini: fresco with seated Venus, restored as a personification of Rome

  • Garden from villa di Livia

  • Fasti Antiates Maiores:
    pre-Julian Roman calendar

[edit] Epigraphy

    [edit] Other objects

    • Stamping mold in forme of a crescent moon, used for bricks and tiles. Bronze, date unknown.

    • Circular stamping mold for bricks and tiles. Bronze, 3rd century CE.

    • Venetian “osella” (commemorative medal with the value of a gold quarter ducat). Gold, minted in 1704, year V of Alvise II Mocenigo.

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