ID: 700001286 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001286	Record Type: Movable Work
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Farnese Flora (colossal statues; unknown Roman sculptor; restored by Guglielmo della Porta; early Roman empire, probably 2...)

Note: Colossal marble statue that was found in the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla during excavations under Pope Paul III. Roman copy of a probably smaller Greek original. It stood in the Farnese Palace in Rome until 1790, when the Farnese collection was removed to Naples. When found, th head, forarms, and feet were missing. The figure was restored as Flora by Guglielmo della Porta. Later scholars proposed that the figure was a muse in dance, either Erato or Terpsichore.

Titles:

Farnese Flora (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

colossal statues [300047453] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by subject type>, statues)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Creation Date: early Roman empire, probably 2nd century

Creator Display:

unknown Roman sculptor; restored by Guglielmo della Porta [preferred,VP]

restorer Porta, Guglielmo della (Italian architect, sculptor, and restorer, born between 1500 and 1510, died 1577) [500001864]

sculptor unknown Ancient Roman (Ancient Roman cultural designation) [500202843]

Locations:

Museo Nazionale di San Martino (Naples, Napoli province, Campania, Italy) [500303445] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: marble

	marble (rock) [300011443]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)

Dimensions: colossal; height: around 11 feet (3.35 meters)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	Flora [901001704]
	.....((Roman characters, Roman iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Related Works:

	architectural context is .... Baths of Caracalla [700009231]
	..........thermae; unknown Roman architects; patron: Caracalla (Roman emperor, ...; ca. 211-216 CE; Rome (Roma, Lazio, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TGN hie...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Farnese Flora	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	........ Eaton, Hand-book of Greek and Roman Sculpture (1884) 282
	........ Grummond, Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology (2015) 430

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Eaton, Hand-book of Greek and Roman Sculpture (1884)
	..... Grummond, Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology (2015)