Sleeping Hermaphroditus, il Borghese ermafroditi. Una dimensione di vita antica II secolo d.c. statua romana scolpita in marmo greco, il museo del Louvre, Parigi
5524 x 4762 px | 46,8 x 40,3 cm | 18,4 x 15,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1 aprile 2017
Ubicazione:
Louvre Museum, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, France
Altre informazioni:
Sleeping Hermaphroditus, The Borghese Hermaphrodite. A Life size ancient 2nd century AD Roman statue sculpted in Greek Marble and found in the grounds of Santa Maria della Vittoria, near the Baths of Diocletian, Rome. It was added to the Borghese Collection by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, in the 17th century and was named the "Borghese Hermaphroditus”. It was later sold to the occupying French and was removed it to The Louvre. Hermaphrodite, son of Hermes and Aphrodite had repels the advances of the nymph Salmacis. However, she got Zeus as their two bodies are united in a bisexual being. The Sleeping Hermaphroditus has been described as a good early Imperial Roman copy of a bronze original by the later of the two Hellenistic sculptors named Polycles (150 BC) the original bronze was mentioned in Pliny's Natural History. In 1619 Bernini sculpted the mattress on which the ancient marble of Hermaphrodite lies. Louvre Museum, Paris
