The Complex of San Lorenzo

A coherent group of sculpture in peperine (a stone from the Albani Hills), broken into fragments which were then reused in a renaissance wall, discovered near the Church of San Lorenzo.
Several of these statues, brought together in the Capitoline collections, represent female figures, Orpheus among the animals, and a barbarian; they are carefully worked, using Hellenistic models of the Pergamon school from the late IIIrd – early IVth centuries BC.
The complex should probably be associated with a temple of Herakles, as should the peperine base from the same area, inscribed with a dedication by the dictator M. Minucio, who was victorious against Hannibal in 217 BC.

Sala Colonne - Complesso di San Lorenzo
Statua di Orfeo tra gli animali
Sculpture
II secolo a.C.
Statua femminile con due bambini
Sculpture
IInd century BC
Testa di barbaro
Sculpture
IInd century BC