RB001
Roman bronze seated Zeus.
1st - 2nd century AD.
Height: 9.2 cm. (3 5/8 in.)
Very fine. Missing left hand and scepter. Fine dark green patina, with areas of light green. Mounted.
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Zeus (-Jupiter), head of the Olympian gods, is seated on his throne, wearing himation over the lower body and left shoulder, leaving the breast and the right shoulder exposed. His full curly hair is centrally parted , and he has a heavy curly beard. The face is finely modeled with majestic and calm expression, with certain smile in the full lips. His right hand is holding a thunderbolt, and his missing left hand was holding his scepter.
This type of Zeus sculpture is known as Jupiter Capitolinus, after the statue of Jupiter in the Capitoline, Rome, inspired by the statue of Zeus by Phidias, at Olympia, of mid 5th century BC.
Cf. Vermeule, C.C., Comstock, M.B, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1988, Cat. no. 73, p. 70; Comstock, M. - Vermeule, Museum of Fin Arts Boston, 1971, Cat. no. 122, p. 115
Vermeule, C. C., Comstock, M. B., 1988
Vermeule, C. C., Comstock, M. B., Sculpture in Stone and Bronze. Addition to the Collections of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art 1971-1988 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1988
Comstock - Vermeule, - Boston 1971
Comstock, M., and Vermeule, C. C., Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Greenwich, Conn. 1971
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