The Capitoline Flora
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Stone
Measurements
1590 x 520 x 280 mm
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Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266940
Summary
Stone sculpture, The Capitoline Flora. A classical woman standing on left leg, the right slightly bent, extending right hand as turns that way. Drapery falls over right shoulder and across over left arm and down in deep, sharp-edged vertical folds. Flower circlet in swept back hair. Sandals on feet which protrude from beneath dress. On rectangular base with shaped corners. Right arm missing below elbow, and left hand. The original marble statue of 1.68 m is in the Capitoline Museum, Rome and has been since 1744, although it was ceded to the French under the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino and went to Paris in 1798 but removed in 1815 and arrived back in Rome in early 1816, also known as Sabina, Polyhymnia.
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 40, fig. 112