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Title	Isis, front, slight three-quarter view.
Date	Late 2nd or early 3rd century
Cultural Context	Ancient Roman Italian European Western European
Style/Period	Roman (ancient Italian style) Imperial (Roman) Greco-Roman
Theme	Sculpture (visual work) Statues Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Three-quarter views Oblique views Myths (literary documents) Mythology (literary genre) Legends (folk tales) Folk tales Folklore Women Goddesses Heads (representations) Costume (mode of fashion) Tiaras Headdresses Headgear Hairstyles Symbols Symbolism (artistic concept) Uraeus Snakes
Subject	Sculpture Myths Legends Women Goddesses People associated with religion Supernatural beings Fictitious characters Heads (Anatomy) Clothing & dress Headdresses Headgear Hairstyles Symbols Cobras Snakes Reptiles
Description	"This head of Isis, turned to the right, with delicately parted lips, is almost entirely intact except for the ends of a few locks of hair and the left edge of her tiara. The neck stops at a recessed fitting, a tenon, indicating that the head must have been part of a statue. The Egyptian goddess is recognizable here by her coiled locks (known as Libyan curls) and by some of the decorative symbols on her tiara: the uraeus (cobra) and a feather on the left edge that evokes the quills of a falcon. […] The pomegranate and poppy also adorning the preserved edge of the tiara, the styling of the cow horns as crescent moons that traditionally surround a uraeus, and the small horns surmounting the forehead are unique qualities in this representation. This version is a Greco-Roman syncretization: the pomegranate and poppy also allude to Demeter, while the crescent moon suggests Selene. The bovine appearance of the small horns may correspond to Isis and Hathor. The Greeks and Romans may also have interpreted this element as an allusion to Io, who was transformed into a cow by Hera. […] The very skillful finish given to the skin, the almost abstract symmetry of the arch of the eyebrows, and the style of the pupils and hair - with sections of wavy locks separated by deep grooves - suggests that this work dates from the reign of Commodus (180-192 A.D.) or the Severan dynasty (193-235 A.D.)." (Excerpt from catalogue entry by Ludovic Laugier, p. 236). Provenance unknown. Purchased in 1817, formerly in the Marquis de Drée collection (MA 223-INV. LL46). Restorer: C. Devos, 2005.
People Pictured	Isis (Egyptian deity)
Material	Marble (rock) Rock Stone (rock)
Measurements	H: 22 7/8 in (58 cm)
Technique	Sculpting Carving (processes)
Work Type	Sculpture Statues
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.[237], cat.163).
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 762-28.jpg
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