Amazzone ferita. Marmo bianco. Scultore italiano neoclassico, Roma, XVIII-XIX secolo

The statue, which depicts a warrior woman with bare breasts, dressed in a short chiton in the act of holding the upper end of the bow while the helmet, shield and axe are placed at her feet, takes as its almost palpable model the Roman-era exemplar in the Capitoline Museums in Rome derived from a fifth-century Greek original made for the Sanctuary of Artemis and Ephesus, The work, which comes from the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, was donated to the Museum by Pope Benedict XIV in 1753, and then underwent a series of substantial restorations and reconstructions by the sculptor Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (Rome 1717 - 1799), making it a syncretic model between the original by Phidias and the Amazon by Polyclitus, whose head is similar, H. 80 cm, Cf: , - Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Roman sculptor (1717-1799), Ed. Palombi, Rome 1999, - Rome and the ancient, reality and vision of the'700. C.Brook, V.Curzi, Ed. Skira 2010