Wednesday, January 4, 2017

FARNESINA PALACE ON VIA DEI BAULLARI (second part) - GIOVANNI BARRACCO MUSEUM OF ANCIENT SCULPTURE

MUSEO DI SCULTURA ANTICA GIOVANNI BARRACCO
Since 1948 it houses in NINE ROOMS in a collection of 380 pieces donated to the City of Rome in 1902 by Baron Giovanni Barracco (1829/1914) from Calabria
Barracco had the collaboration of two of the most recognized experts in the ancient art of the day: Wolfgang Helbig, secretary of the German Archaeological Institute and Ludwig Pollak the antiquarian discoverer of the arm of the Laocoon that bears his name
It is a small but interesting and educational museum because it allows to compare and see examples of sculpture belonging to different civilizations and periods
Entrance “Apollo mutilated sitting on a rock” of the Hellenistic period from the gardens of Caesar in the Trastevere neighborhood
“Christian Sarcophagus”
“Seated Woman” from Attica (beginning of fourth century BC)
In the mezzanine two headless statues: “Little girl pouring water from a vase” and “Muse”
Egyptian art:
Works spanning three millennia (Old Kingdom 3100/2161 BC to 30 BC)
“Stele of Nefer” scribe of Pharaoh at the table of tenders (IV dynasty 2640/2520 BC)
“Relief of the dignitary Ty” from Memphis (V dynasty 1938/1739 BC)
“Relief of the courtier Akhiti-hotep” (IV Dynasty)
“Wooden head of a lion” (XVIII Dynasty 1100 BC)
“Two canopic jars” for the entrails of the dead
“Portrait of Sethi I” (1289/1278 BC) in black granite
“Portrait of a bearded man” mistakenly believed to be Julius Caesar but, in fact, maybe a priest (Ptolemaic period 304/30 BC)
“Hourglass water of Ptolemy” found in Rome in the Iseum Campensis (Temple of Isis)

Sumerian and Assyrian Art:
Two nails for the foundation of Sumerian temples “Goddess Inamna” and “God Nirgirsu” 2000 BC
“Slab with winged genius” (IX century BC). Upper part of a frieze kept in the Vatican Museums
“Slab with three warriors on the run in a cane” (VII century BC)
“Tablets with cuneiform writing” from the time of the third dynasty of Ur (about 2050 BC)

Cypriot and Etruscan Art:
“Memorial stone from Chiusi” (V century BC)
“Female Head” antefix in limestone from Bolsena (III century BC)
“Quadriga with woman and child” polychrome from Cyprus (about 490 BC)

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