Museum GIFs

Os Gêmeos Sem Titulo (Untitled)

Eduardo Basualdo Split Knife/Infinito

Marcelo Moscheta Anti-Gravitational Magnetic Pole 62 Stones 2009

From Vespasian to Trajan

Roman Portraits AD 68–117

The suicide of Nero in 68 led to civil war, with three emperors in a row during 69. An army commander, Vespasian, brought a new dynasty to power, the Flavians, His sons Titus and Domitian succeeded hi, the latter being murdered in 96. A System of adoption was then introduced, with Trajan as the first of the ‘Adoptive Emperors’.

Cast of Torso Found on Thasos 1987

Figures of woman wearing numerous pieces of jewellery and splendid garments, carrying flower buds or a lotus symbolizing rebirth, might be goddesses themselves. The painted head was once covered by an added veil.

Goddess and a Place of Sacrifice?

The goddess of the underworld sits on a throne, guarded by sphinxes and holding in her hand a pomegranate which by virtue of its multitude of seeds and blood-red juice was a symbol of fertility and new life. The goddess has been placed in a tomb. The head can be removed, and the figure is hallow throughout. Perhaps the actual statue was used to pour libations through to the ancestors and the gods in the underworld.

A Roman Boy

Found in the Licinian Tomb in Rome AD 30-50. Marble.

Herman Wilhem Bissen 1798-1868 Danish

A Victorious Danish Soldier 1850-51

Plaster

Bissen pays homage to the Danish food soldiers (privates) from the war in 1848-51, where the Danish government prevented the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from leaving the Kingdom of Denmark. The sculpture springs form the same political soil as the landscape paintings form the period and is fueled by the same nationalist sentiments.

The sculpture marks the first time in European history that a memorial to military victory did not show a goddess, a general. or a monarch, but a simple, anonymous soldier from the battlefields. However, the figure’s face bears a striking resemblance to the painter Johan Thomas Lundbye, who fell in the war.

Benedetto Briosco 1460-1526 Italian

Head of a Woman. Fragment of a statue 1477-1514

Peter Land 1966- Danish

Untitled (Sitting man, with dots on blue carpet) 2003