Zeus
Greco-Roman, 1st century - 2nd century AD
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
810 mm (31 7/8 in) high
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)
NT 732925
Summary
Marble sculpture, Zeus, Greco-Roman, 1st century - 2nd century AD Roman. A small statuette of the mature, bearded Zeus is represented in heroic semi-nudity; in his right hand the Father of the Gods holds his powerful attribute, the thunderbolt. The prototype of the Stourhead Zeus may have been a late fourth-century BC work.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Greco-Roman, 1st century - 2nd century AD , sculptor
Exhibition history
The Treasure Houses of Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, 1985 - 1986, no.242
References
Vermeule, 1956: Cornelius C. Vermeule, and Dietrich vaon Bothmer, ‘Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis: Ancient Marbles in Great Britain’, American Journal of Archeology, vol.60 (1956), pp. 343 - 344, pl. 105, fig. 4