Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Old Woman at Museo Garimberti ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Many ancient statues on display in Renaissance Rome did not become crowd favorites, but were yet prominent enough to be recorded by artists in drawings and engravings. Sometimes this documentation can still be matched to actually surviving marbles. In other cases the original statue may have disappeared or may have been altered past recognition. An anonymous portfolio at the British Museum contains nearly fifty of these documentary images, apparently created all by the same hand in the 1540s.
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Personification of Arithmetic at Museo Garimberti ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Mercury at Museo Garimberti ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Bacchus at Museo Garimberti ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Bacchante in the della Valle Collection ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Bacchus in the della Valle collection ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Silenus with the infant Bacchus at Palazzo Farnese ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Bacchus at Palazzo Farnese ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Hermaphrodite at Palazzo Farnese ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome The Muse Polyhymnia at the Vatican ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Draped Goddess at the Vatican ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Seated Goddess at the Vatican ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Leda at Museo Tiberio Cevoli ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Jupiter at Museo Tiberio Cevoli ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |