Roman
A Roman terracotta Campana relief fragment, Late 1st century BC - early 1st century AD
Terracotta
Length: 29.5 cm
Depicting a winged genius with drapery around the hips, playing a lyre, with scrolling tendrils behind, a small portion of the upper border remains.
Depicting a winged genius with drapery around the hips, playing a lyre, with scrolling tendrils behind, a small portion of the upper border remains.
Provenance
Artemis A.W. Joukowsky (1930 - 2020) and Dr. Martha Sharp Joukowsky (1936 - 2022), Providence, RI, acquired 1967 - 1974; thence by descentExhibitions
Providence, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection, 12 October - 8 November 1985Literature
'Campana' reliefs take their name from Giampietro Campana, Marchese di Cavelli (1808-1880), a prolific collector of Greek and Roman art, who had a number of these reliefs in his collection. Campana reliefs were often made from moulds, from which several copies of the same scene could be taken, and then finished by hand.This fragment is from a panel with a pair of winged Genii. There are similar examples from the Campana Collection in the Musée du Louvre, acc. nos. S 887 and S 856.
Cf. S. Reinach, Répertoire des reliefs, II, Afrique - Iles Britanniques, 1912, p. 284, no. 2; H. von Rohden, Architektonische römische Tonreliefs der Kaiserzeit, 1911, p. 198-202; G. Campana, Antiche opere in plastica discoperte, raccolte, e dichiarate da G. Pietro Campana, Roma, 1851, pl. 111.