Vatican Museums (Vatican City), Cast of column base and lowest part of column with scrolling decoration in low relief.
Plaster cast. 577 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: Francis Ware.
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Cast of column base and lowest part of column with scrolling decoration in low relief
From: Vatican Museums (Vatican City)
RA Collection: Art
The cast is of the lower portion of a column and its base which is now in the Vatican Museum. The complete column (H: 2.94 m) is recomposed of numerous fragments of which only a few are ancient. The base of the column, well-reproduced in the cast, is not ancient.
The Royal Academy has another cast of this same column, 12/2290; both casts were probably acquired from the collection of Thomas Lawrence. Interestingly, this cast was displayed for years upside down, with its base functioning as a capital.
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