The Studio

Submitted by Ilze Girgensone on Sat, 2008-07-12 10:15.

Medusa's head in white marble, AD 307. Roman copy of Greek original. For more information: Classical Antiquities of the Villa San Michele, I by Arvid Andrén: Opuscula Romana, V, Lund 1965, p. 129 or Roman Marble by Agneta Freccero, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand 2003, p. 131: Peter de RuMedusa's head in white marble, AD 307. Roman copy of Greek original. For more information: Classical Antiquities of the Villa San Michele, I by Arvid Andrén: Opuscula Romana, V, Lund 1965, p. 129 or Roman Marble by Agneta Freccero, Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand 2003, p. 131: Peter de RuMedusa's head (VSM 749) in white marble hangs above the writing desk in the studio.

Erdeös writes:

...which Munthe reputedly found on the seabed off Palazzo a Mare.

Even if it is a good story, the truth might be different. Possibly the mask comes from the Tempio di Venere e Roma in Rome.


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