Head of a Goddess

1st century BCE-1st century CE (Classical-Roman)

24.1 cm 35.5 cm 30.3 cm

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This head is a fragment of one of the finest existing replicas of Phidias' statue known as the "Hera Borghese." The preeminent sculptor of Athens in the High Classical period, Phidias was also the creator of the famous gold and ivory statue of "Athena Parthenos" and oversaw th...

Sculpture

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17909
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [marble no. 29], 1894, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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