Athena Statuette Bronze Animal lurching forward and roaring

lurching forward and roaring

after the original marble sculpture by John Gibson R

set on a round detailed stepped base

crisp deep realistic detail throughout

Base: White marble with polished black wax finish

Athena Statuette Bronze Animal lurching forward and roaringAthena Giustiniani statuette. The marble Athena Giustiniani or Giustiniani Minerva is an Antonine Roman marble copy of a Greek sculpture of Pallas Athena, of the late fifth early fourth century BC. The sculpture was probably a cult image rather than a decorative culture trophy. It was discovered in the early 17th century, reputedly in the ruins of a ten sided nymphaeum on the Esquiline Hill which thus mistakenly identified as a "Temple of Minerva