CHIUDI

Author: Ilaria Zuccheri

Subject
Portrait head of a bearded man, after a Greek original dating back to about 200-160 B.C.
 
Accession number 1873,0820.727
Marble
Height 38 cm
With damaged parts (nose and ears)
120-140 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Appia
 
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
 
Credits
The British Museum
 
References
F.N. Pryce – A.H. Smith, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892-1928.

Subject
Portrait head of the well-known philosopher Epicurus, after a Greek original dating back to about 200-160 B.C.
 
Accession number 1873,0820.726
Marble
Height 48.26 cm
120-140 A.D.
 
Provenance
Found on the Via Appia
 
Placement
The British Museum
 
Credits
The British Museum
 
References
F.N. Pryce – A.H. Smith, Catalogue of Greek Sculpture in the British Museum, I-III, London, BMP, 1892-1928.

Subject
View of the interior of the Sepulchre of the Calventii in the Vigna Vidaschi, on the Via Appia. Formerly it was part of an album.
 
Accession number 1955,1210.10.36
Watercolour over graphite
Carlo Labruzzi, Rome 1748 – 1817 Perugia
1789-1794
49.3 cm x 64.0 cm
 
Placement
The British Museum (storage)
 
Credits
The British Museum
 
References
P.A. de Rosa – B. Jatta, ‘La Via Appia nei disegni di Carlo Labruzzi alla Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana’, Vatican City, Vatican Apostolic Library, 2013, cat. 29, pp. 190-191.

Subject
On this relief, a bearded man is seated in right profile on a four-legged stool (diphros) with carved legs and a cushion, and rests his feet on a footstool. With his left hand raised to his cheek in a contemplative gesture, he supports his left elbow on a gnarled staff held in his right hand. Beneath the chair is a griffin, the symbol of Apollo, god of prophecy. Over his left shoulder he wears a tunic that covers his lower body and sandals. Coiled around the tree in front of him is a snake, which menaces a nest of fledglings and two adult birds perched in the branches.

Accession number 72.AA.160
Marble
145×99.5x 26.6 cm

Provenance
Villa di Sette Bassi (Appia Antica Archaeological Park)

Placement
Getty Villa, Gallery 206, Collecting Antiquities

Credits
Getty Villa, Gallery 206, Collecting Antiquities

Subject
View of the Via Appia Antica in an oval. The artist represents ancient ruins on the left, while in the foreground two figures are walking with a dog. The artwork, bearing the title “Sur la Voïe appienne pres de Rome”, was drawn by Jacob Philipp Hackert and realized by an anonymous.
 
Accession number RP-P-1907-2392
Etching
1754 – 1842
15.9 cm x 19.1 cm
 
Placement
Rijksmuseum

Credits
Rijksmuseum

Subject
View of a tomb on the Via Appia Antica, as we read in the lower center (“Vue d’un tombeau sur la voie Appia”), drawn by Jules Coignet and realized by Adam.
 
Accession number RP-P-1905-5474A
Lithography
Victor Adam, Paris 1801 – 1866 Viroflay
1824 – 1826
39.8 cm x 54.6 cm
 
Placement
Rijksmuseum
 
Credits
Rijksmuseum

References
Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 par Jean Laran, tomo 1, Paris, National Library, 1930, p. 37.

Subject
View of a tomb along the Via Appia Antica, from the series “Diverses veuës dedans et dehors de Rome”.
 
Accession number RP-P-OB-60.891
Etching
Herman van Swanevelt, Woerden around 1600 – 1655 Paris
11.5 cm x 17.9 cm
1652-1653
 
Placement
Rijksmuseum
 
Credits
Rijksmuseum

References
Samuel de Swaef to Jan Thesing, compiled by D. de Hoop Scheffer, G.S. Keyes and G. Luyten; edited by K.G. Boon, Blaricum, A.L. van Gendt, 1984, p. 76.