Ariadne, sleeping
Ariadne, sleeping
Name: Ariadne, sleepingMaterial: cast (plaster of Paris)
Format: Statue
Dimensions: 161,5 m high; 1.95 wide
Museum: Courtesy Museo dell'Arte Classica, Sapienza University, Rome
Museum inventory number: 879
Museum of original: Vatican Museums (inv. 548.0.0).
More information on the website of the Vatican Museums and on the website of Arachne, the central object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)
Cast emended by G.Q. Giglioli by removal of its high plaster base and by reduction of the angle with which the figure rests on its left side. For details, see Maria Luisa Morricone, Il Museo dei Gessi dell'Universita' di Roma (Rome 1981) 26.
Bibliography: G. Spinola. Il Museo Pio-Clementino (1999) vol. 2, p. 11
Photographer/modeler: Davide Angheleddu
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