A PLASTER MODEL OF THE ARA PACIS AUGUSTAE
Lot 207

A PLASTER MODEL OF THE ARA PACIS AUGUSTAE

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, MODERN

Closed9 October 2012

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GBP 3,000

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A PLASTER MODEL OF THE ARA PACIS AUGUSTAE
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, MODERN
With associated figure of wrestlers to the centre, on a mahogany plinth
15 in. (38 cm.) high; 43 in. (110 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Cast from the reduction originally in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The first century BC marble originally commissioned to celebrate the peace in the Roman Empire under the Rule of Augustus (63 BC - 14 AD) following the Roman victories in Spain and Gaul. The monument was excavated in the first part of the 20th century and was reassembled circa 1937 alongside the Tiber River, Rome, where it is now housed in the Museo dell'Ara Pacis.