Niobe and her Youngest Daughter
Niobe and her Youngest Daughter
3D
Published 2019-10-09T15:15:13+00:00
The boasting mortal Niobe cowers before her punishment by the gods.
These two figures were originally part of a larger group depicting the killing by the gods of Niobe and her children. The groiup was probably set up by Seleukos, a king of Cilicia in south coastal Asia Minor. It was moved to Rome in 38 BC to decorate the rebuilt temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius.
The original o this cast was damaged in a bomb blast at the Uffizi in 1993; restored and rediplayed in 2006.
As usual, we only have later Roman copies to show us what the original was like. But the strong emotional content of the sculpture, a favourite theme of Hellenistic styles, is clear.
Photography Credit - CC BY-SA 4.0 - Nationalmuseum
These 3D scans have been produced with an Artec Eva with the ambition to produce a digital representation as close to the original as possible. However, the presented scans are not to be regarded as duplicates as due to inaccessible areas etc deviations from the original might occur.
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| Date published | 09/10/2019 |
| Complexity | Medium |
| Title | Niobe and her Youngest Daughter |
| Date | Original: Early 3rd Century BC |
| Dimension | Height: 2.27m |
| Accession | NMSkAv 95 |
| Period | Hellenistic |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Credit | 19th century cast after antiquity |
| Record | http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=137975&viewType=detailView |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Nationalmuseum |
