Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano), Rome, Italy
Artist/Maker Unknown
So-called “Ludovisi Ares”. Pentelic marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 320 BC. Some restorations in Cararra marble by Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1622.
Dimensions H. 1.56 m (5 ft. 1 ¼ in.)
Credit line Former Ludovisi Collection
Accession number Inv. 8602
Location First floor
Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)
Mythology Images
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