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Marble statue of jupiter.
A colossal marble statue of roman emperor claudius in the guise of jupiter.
He was the god of the sky and thunder.
From a theatre at lanuvio 1st century ce.
Iūpiter ˈjuːpɪtɛr or iuppiter ˈjʊpːɪtɛr from proto italic djous day sky patēr father thus sky father also known as jove gen.
A superb roman marble statue of the god jupiter depicted standing he wears drapery slung over his left shoulder and around his waist revealing the well defined muscles of his torso an eagle resting against his feet with the wings partially spread its head now missing.
In imitation of this so called chryselephantine technique the roman sculptor used marble gilded wood and stucco for his jupiter.
Dimensions 42 00 x 29 00 cm.
The two stand on an integrated base.
Iuppiter is the king of the gods in roman mythology.
The statue has features typical of flavian art such as pompousness emotion and dynamism.
Life of jupiter birth.
Iovis is the god of the sky and thunder and king of the gods in ancient roman religion and mythology jupiter was the chief deity of roman state religion throughout the republican and imperial eras until christianity.
Back almost without carving.
The statue of olympian zeus was overlaid with gold and ivory.
His brother s name was pluto and his sister was ceres.
He is one of the most famous exhibits of the museum.
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The statue was found during archaeological excavations at the villa of emperor domitian who reigned from 81 to 96 ad.
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The statue of jupiter in the hermitage collection is one of the largest sculptures from classical antiquity in any museum in the world.
The statue of jupiter is also a significant monument of the flavian era bearing the characteristic features of roman art of this period.
Saturn who was the previous king of the gods began to swallow the children that he had with his wife greek equivalent rhea when they were born.
The statue of jupiter in the hermitage museum is a colossal sculpture of the supreme ancient god created by an unknown roman master at the end of the 1st century ad.
He is known as zeus in greek mythology.