Sujet

Cast of proper left side of grave altar of M. Antonius Alexander, late 18th or early 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Cast of proper left side of grave altar of M. Antonius Alexander, late 18th or early 19th century. Plaster cast of a grave altar for a man, M. Antonius Alexander, who was the freedman of Antonia the Younger (36 BCE-37 AD/CE), a niece of Augustus, grandmother of Caligula, and mother of Claudius. The original object is in the Museo Chiaramonti of the Musei Vaticani (Vatican Museums) in Rome. The altar can be dated securely to the mid-or later second century because of the individuals mentioned. The panel shows birds drinking from a large krater or vase and a smaller pitcher stands nearby. It is an unusual depiction for such a monument; these monuments had a repetitive and set visual repertoire. The water vessels were used in religious ceremony and were probably intended to recall the funerary rites.

Date

1775

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts, London

Notre référence

HRM26A34_217

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53.2Mo (8.8Mo) / 31.8cm x 42.0cm / 3751 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal Italy building drink architecture arts bird birds country Rome shape drinking sculpture art color decoration decorative death relief Roman location century urn altar concept vase cast mould decorated funerary mold Homeware Plaster Cast Colour 19th century bas relief bas-relief Monument 18th century Ancient Roman Ancient Rome Eighteenth Century nineteenth century 2nd century krater sculpture Unknown plaster 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts Antonia Minor Minor Antonia Antonia Minor Augusta Antonia the Younger