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Title	Sarcophagus of Cornelius Statius, front panel.
Date	150 - 160
Cultural Context	Ancient Roman Roman Italian European Western European
Style/Period	Roman (ancient Italian style) Imperial (Roman)
Theme	Sculpture (visual work) Sarcophagi (coffins) Coffins Burials Ceremonial containers Containers (receptacles) Funerary art Funerary sculpture Reliefs (sculptures) Panels (ornament areas) Memorials Epitaphs Inscriptions Scenes (depictions) Infancy Childhood Riding (traveling) Driving Gesture Feeding Sitting Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Three-quarter views Oblique views Profiles (figures) Children (people by age group) Youth Infants Boys Sons Men (male humans) Women Mothers Fathers Families Parents Costume (mode of fashion) Tunics Stolas Togas Mantles (outerwear) Drapery (representations) Boots Footwear Hairstyles Armchairs Chairs (furniture forms) Seating furniture Furniture Arms (furniture components) Armrests (object genre) Backs (furniture components) Legs (furniture components) Scrolls (information artifacts) Papyri Chariots (ancient vehicles) Vehicles (transportation) Wheels Domestic animals Goats Animals Bridles Harnesses
Subject	Sculpture Sarcophagi Coffins Death & burial Containers Monuments & memorials Memorial works Inscriptions Human life cycle Childhood & youth Domestic life Child rearing Breast feeding Feeding Lifting & carrying Riding Sitting Gestures Boys Infants Children Men Women Mothers Fathers Families Clothing & dress Boots Footwear Hairstyles Beards Chairs Seating furniture Furniture Scrolls (Visual works) Chariots Vehicles Wheels Goats Animals Bridles Harnesses
Description	"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of the few examples that show various stages in the life of a child. Above the epitaph are four scenes from the young boy's life. First he appears as an infant, wearing a short tunic bound at the waist with several cloth bands and being nursed by his mother. She sits in a large armchair wearing a stola and has a waved hairstyle gathered into a chignon. A man with a beard and moustache, dressed in a toga over a long tunic, with calcei on his feet, rests his elbow on a pillar and tenderly contemplates this domestic scene, leaning his head on his right hand and holding a scroll in his left. […] In the second scene, the same man is shown full face, holding the slightly older baby in his arms: this time the child is wearing a long tunic and playing with an object. Next the child is represented as a little boy, wearing a short toga over his tunic and driving a child-sized chariot drawn by a goat. In the final scene, he stands reciting his lesson in front of his father, who is seated, legs crossed, on a chair with a curved back. Both father and son hold a volumen, a papyrus or parchment roll. […] It has been suggested that the woman may be a hired nurse and the bearded man a tutor, but the realism of the representation suggests these are actual people rather than standardized prototypes. It is more likely that these are the parents of the young Cornelius Statius and that they wanted the sarcophagus to evoke memories of the daily life they shared with their departed son." (Excerpt from catalogue entry by Pascale Carpentier, p. 136). Discovered in Ostia (Italy) (?).Purchased in 1861, formerly in the Campana collection (MA 659-INV. CP 6547). Restorer: V. Picur, 2006.
Location Depicted	Italy
Material	Fine-grained white marble (Luna?) Fine-grained white marble Carrara marble Marble (rock) Rock Stone (rock)
Measurements	H: 18 3/4 in (47.5 cm); W: 58 3/4 in. (149 cm)
Technique	Sculpting Carving (processes) Relief (sculpture techniques)
Inscription	Epitaph on lower plinth: M(ARCO)-CORNELIO-M(ARCI)-F(ILI)-PAL(ATINA TRIBU)-STATIO-P[ARENTES]-FECER(UNT)
Work Type	Sculpture Sarcophagi Coffins Reliefs (sculptures)
Repository	Musee du Louvre (Paris, France)
Source	Giroire, Cecile, and Daniel Roger. Roman Art from the Louvre. New York: American Federation of Arts in assoc. with Hudson Hills Press, 2007. (p.[137], cat.76).
Rights	Photographs of the works in the exhibition reproduced in Giroire courtesy: Copyright © 2007 Musee du Louvre and the American Federation of Arts/Anne Chauvet, Daniel Lebee, and Carine De Ambrosis.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 762-15.jpg
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