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Journal of the History of Collections Advance Access originally published online on January 27, 2006
Journal of the History of Collections 2006 18(1):1-7; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhi044
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

Livy, the Savelli, and a Domitian/Nerva in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Patrick Kragelund

At an auction in Rome in 1896 the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek acquired a statue representing the Roman Emperor Domitian. The hitherto unpublished inscription on the statue's pedestal throws new light on its provenance and history. Found at Albano, once part of the great suburban residence of Domitian himself, it had after his fall in AD 96 been re-hewn as his successor, Nerva. Some 1,500 years later, in 1663, when it was unearthed in what was by then the property of the Savelli, one of the ancient baronial families of papal Rome, the statue was transferred to Rome where it was set up in the Palazzo Savelli, thereby becoming part of an ancestral gallery featuring paintings by Pietro da Cortona as well as a triumphal relief representing the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The famosa statua (so described in numerous guidebooks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) was now claimed to represent an ancestor of the Savelli, one Gaius Popilius Sabellus, whose bravery in battle was praised by the Roman historian Livy.

Address for correspondence Patrick Kragelund, Danish National Art Library, Kongens Nytorv 1, P.O. Box 1053, DK 1007 Copenhagen K, Denmark. pkr{at}kunstbib.dk


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