Stock No: 16722

A large and magnificent bust of Ares in plaster, after the 2nd century Roman marble of the Imperial Era, known as the Borghese Ares. This marble is thought to be a copy of the rare Greek bronze by Alkamenes, dated to the 5th century BC.
The identification of the figure as Ares has been challenged, some thinking the statue could possibly be Achilles. However, numerous ancient Roman replicas of the Ares have survived, and this conforms to the type. It has also been proposed that the sculpture was an object of Augustan propaganda, casting Augustus's heir and grandson Gaius as 'The New Ares'.

Our plaster model is possibly by Brucciani & Co. or a similar workshop.

Italian, mid-19th century.

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