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Rome and Central southern Italy

With its ruins, its antique market, and its collections, Rome was a significant supply source of archaeological material and inspiration for various collections of the lagoon city. Expression of the relations between Venetian elites and the Eternal City, these collections were an eloquent symbol of social prestige. Among Venetian prelates and diplomats that sojourned at Palazzo Venezia in Rome from the early 15th century to 1797, there were some personalities close to the Archeological Museum’s history such as the cardinal Domenico Grimani and the ambassador Girolamo Zulian, author of the last bequest in favour of the Public Statuary before the fall of Serenissima Republic.

Biconical cinerary vase

Made of clay ceramic with engraved geometric decoration 9th century BC, from Tyrrhenian Etruria Girolamo Zulian collection, 1795

Oinochoe

Made of thin bucchero with engraved geometric decoration Late 7th – early 6th century BC Girolamo Zulian collection, 1795

HEAD OF ATHENA

Roman copy of the “Velletri” type, bronze original of about 430 BC attributed to Kresilas Renaissance bust Giovanni Grimani collection, 1587

EROS IN THE ACT OF STRINGING THE BOW

Roman copy (first half of 1st century AD) after a Greek original by Lisyppos of 335 BC Giovanni Grimani collection, 1587

ULYSSES

Roman replica after a Pergamene original of the first half of the 3rd century BC Domenico Grimani collection, 1523

GAULS

Roman replicas after Pergamene originals, dated between the late 3rd and the mid-2nd century BC; from Rome Domenico Grimani collection, 1523

ARTEMIS

Roman work in an archaistic style, mid-1st century BC; the head is a plaster cast taken from a similar statue in Naples Giovanni Grimani collection, 1587

POMPEY

Claudian period copy of a type created after 60 BC Mid-1st century AD Giovanni Grimani collection, 1587

GRIMANI VITELLIUS

Male portrait formerly identified as the emperor Vitellius First half of the 2nd century AD Domenico Grimani collection, 1523

TRAJAN

Portrait of the “decennalia” type, AD 108 Domenico Grimani collection, 1523

FRONT OF A SARCOPHAGUS

with the massacre of the Niobids Second half of the 2nd century AD Formerly in the Borghese collection (Rome), in Venice since 1814

FRAGMENT OF A SARCOPHAGUS

with a scene of a naval battle Attic workshop, early 3rd century AD; from Rome Giovanni Grimani collection, 1587

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