Ares Ludovisi (Sculpture)

Statue of a youth

ID:
aa_2467
Type:
Sculpture
Date:
ca. 140 — ca. 150
Period:
Antonine
Sculptor:
In the style of Lysippos
Condition:
Nearly complete
Scale:
Over life-size
Dimensions:
H. 1.56
Style:
Early Hellenistic
Material:
Marble
Type:
Free-standing statue
Category:
Original/copies
Subject Description

Youthful athletic Ares, seated on a rock with drapery (chlamys)around his loins. His left knee, on which he rests both hands, is raised above his left. The end of his chlamys falls over his left wrist, and he holds a sword in his left hand. His helmet lies below his left foot, and an Eros plays beneath his right foot. His shield rests alongside the rock, to the figure's left side. Broken parts of marble on his left side indicate that this figure may have originally sat next to another figure--Aphrodite or another Eros.

Condition Description

Restored by Bernini. Restorations include the nose, except the right nostril, the right hand (except one part resting on the knee), the tips of the left thumb and forefinger, the sword hilt and part of the scabbard, the right foot from the heel, Eros' head, the left arm with the quiver, the right forearm with the bow, the right foot and part of the lower calf. Now overcleaned.

Collection:
Rome, Museo Nazionale delle Terme

Citations and Bibliography

Boardman 1995, 74, fig. 66; Lattimore 1979, 72 no. 1, pl. 2.1; Vierneisel-Schlrb 1979, 424

B. Palma in Giuliano/MNR, 1.5.118; Helbig, 3.2345; Fink 1964, pl. 35.1-3; Picard/Manuel, fig. 321; EA, 254/55; Lippold 1950, 289, pl. 102.2; Johnson 1927, 167-70, pl. 28; Praschniker 1924, 203-21, figs. 76-77; ; Sieveking 1924, 10 n. 9, 11-14, fig. 7; BrBr, 388