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Lower Part of a Marble Statue of Hygieia in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2012
Title: Lower part of a marble seated statue of Hygieia
Period: Imperial
Date: 1st or 2nd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: H. 50 in. (127.0 cm)
Width 30 in. (76.2 cm.)
Depth 40 (101.6 cm)(w/ base)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903
Accession Number: 03.12.11a
Copy or adaptation of a Greek work of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.
Hygieia, the personification of Health, was the daughter of Asklepios, the god of healing. Snakes were closely associated with both figures and were actually kept in many of the sanctuaries where the sick gathered. This Hygieia was shown feeding a gigantic serpent. The statue was once part of the collection formed in Rome in the early seventeenth century by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/246996
Period: Imperial
Date: 1st or 2nd century CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: H. 50 in. (127.0 cm)
Width 30 in. (76.2 cm.)
Depth 40 (101.6 cm)(w/ base)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903
Accession Number: 03.12.11a
Copy or adaptation of a Greek work of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.
Hygieia, the personification of Health, was the daughter of Asklepios, the god of healing. Snakes were closely associated with both figures and were actually kept in many of the sanctuaries where the sick gathered. This Hygieia was shown feeding a gigantic serpent. The statue was once part of the collection formed in Rome in the early seventeenth century by the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/246996
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