Vatican Lion - statue CensusID: 154920

Vatican Lion - statue CensusID: 154920

Vatican Lion - statue
CensusID: 154920
Alias
Pantheon Lion 1
Lion of Pharaoh Nectanebo I
Egyptian Lion
Location
Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Egizio
Inventory no. inv. 21 (no. 22676)
Description
Class
Type
Material
Present Condition
Original
Number
Descriptive Details
Dimensions
sculpture
statue
granite: grey
intact
yes
01
animal
lion
lying
recumbent
egyptian
inscription
hieroglyphs
height: 77 cm
length: 197 cm
History
Date of Creation
Style
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
Renaissance Dating(s)
Renaissance Attribution(s)
Reason
Documentation
Preservation Event(s)
Nectanebo I (30th dynasty)
Egyptian
unknown
post 28 BC-ante 24 BC
Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius
excavated
> Vacca 1594 > no. 035 (pp. 17-18) (Census)
Date
Eugenius IV
Action
excavated
Person responsible Eugenius IV
Note(s)
The lions were already in front of the Pantheon
before Eugenius IV, but nearly or completely
buried in the ground.
Documentation:
> Vacca 1594 > no. 035 (pp. 17-18) (Census)
Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
1520
restored
Leo X
provided with a plinth
Vacca erroneously ascribes the restoration to
Clemens VII
Documentation:
> Vacca 1594 > no. 035 (pp. 17-18) (Census)
> Du Perac 1575 > fol. 35 (Census)
Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
Documentation:
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1586
removed
Sixtus V
moved to the Moses Fountain
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> Vacca 1594 > no. 035 (pp. 17-18) (Census)
Date
Gregory XVI
Action removed
Note(s) moved from Moses Fountain to the Vatican Museum
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
1435-1586
Location Roma, Piazza della Rotonda
Note(s)
verifiable in front of the Pantheon since the 12th century
Documentation:
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album I > fol. 10 r
(Census)
> Fulvio 1513 > book 2 > fol. 62 v > lines 8 ff. (Census)
> Du Perac 1575 > fol. 35 (Census)
> Vacca 1594 > no. 035 (pp. 17-18) (Census)
Real Monasterio El Escorial: > Antigualhas > fol. 16 v > B (Census)
New York, Morgan Library: > inv. 1969.3 r (Census)
Date
1586-19th cent.
Location Roma, Fontana del Mose
Documentation:
> Vacca 1594 > no. 035 (pp. 17-18) (Census)
Date
Location
Note(s)
Gregory XVI
Roma, Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani
moved from the Moses Fountain to the Vatican Museum
Relationships
Census Document(s):
Cambridge, St Catherine's College Library: > Magister Gregorius > ch. 21
> Rucellai 1459 > p. 410 > lines 1-3
> Prospettivo Milanese > tercet 047
> Fulvio 1513 > book 2 > fol. 62 v > lines 8 ff.
> Fulvio 1527 > book 5 > fol. XCIIII r? > A?
Wien, Liechtenstein Museum, Sammlung des Fürsten von und zu Liechtenstein: > Tempus edax
rerum
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album I > fol. 10 r
> TIB, vol. 29, p. 364, no. 100-I > C
> TIB, vol. 29, p. 364, no. 100-I > F
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > Ud gr. 2° 15 > no. 006
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > Ud gr. 2° 15 > no. 007
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. A 019
> Aldrovandi 1556 > p. 310.G - p. 316.A > p. 313.A
> Aldrovandi 1562 > p. 310.B - p. 315.B > p. 312.B
Roma, Città del Vaticano, BAV: > Codex Ursinianus > fol. 002 r > C
Roma, Città del Vaticano, BAV: > Codex Ursinianus > fol. 002 r > D
Real Monasterio El Escorial: > Antigualhas > fol. 16 v > B
New York, Morgan Lib., Feltrinelli Coll.: > Du Perac Sketchbook > fol. 33 r
> Du Perac 1575 > fol. 35
Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins: > Illustration > book 2 > inv. 26395 r > C
Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins: > Illustration > book 2 > inv. 26395 r > D
New York, Morgan Library: > inv. 1969.3 r
> Vacca 1594 > no. 035 (pp. 17-18)
Windsor Castle, Royal Lib.: > Dal Pozzo Albums, ex-Portfolio 5 > inv. 19283 r > A
Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des dessins: > inv. 11029 r
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. C 548
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. B 281
> TIB, vol. 29, p. 366, no. 100 copy > B
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. A 015
Corpus Winckelmann Document(s):
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> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002) > book 1 > ch. 2 > p. 066 > ll. 12-17
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > p. 067 > ll. 09-18
References
Bibliography:
> Anne Roullet: The Egyptian and Egyptianizing Monuments of Imperial Rome, Leiden 1972 > pp.
131-132, nos. 273-274
> Botti, Giuseppe & Romanelli, Pietro: Le sculture del Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Città del Vaticano
1951 > p. 14 ff., no. 26
> The Vatican Collections. The Papacy and Art, New York 1982 > pp. 178-179, no. 95
> De Fine Licht, Kjeld: The Rotunda in Rome. A study of Hadrian's Pantheon, Arhus 1968 > p. 240,
312 note 1
> D'Onofrio, Cesare: Le Fontane di Roma, Roma 1986 > pp. 107-109, 212, 216
> Katja Lembke: Das Iseum Campense in Rom, Heidelberg 1994 > pp. 223f., no. 13
> Mathias René Hofter, Axel Rügler, Adolf H. Borbein et al.: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums,
Katalog der antiken Denkmäler, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Thomas W. Gaethgens, Johannes
Irmscher, Max Kunze, Mainz 2006 (Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlass IV.2) >
pp. 062f., no. 83
Comment
added:
Thomas Fröhlich
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