The Juno Ludovisi (also called Hera Ludovisi) is a colossal

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marble head of the 1st century CE from an

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statue of an idealized and youthful

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as the goddess

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. Added to the Ludovisi collection formed by Cardinal

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, it is now in the

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. Casts of it are to be seen at the

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Classics Department Casts Gallery, UK;

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, Pennsylvania, USA; the

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haus in Weimar, Germany;

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, Johnson Center, Fairfax, USA; the

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, Department of Art History, Finland; and the University of Tartu Art Museum, Estonia. The American-British novelist

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wrote of the Ludovisi Juno several times including in his first long form novel ''

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''. He described it in its surround as follows..."One warm, still day, late in the Roman autumn, our two young men were seated beneath one of the high-stemmed pines of the Villa Ludovisi. They had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden-house where the colossal mask of the famous Juno looks out with blank eyes from that dusky corner which must seem to her the last possible stage of a lapse from Olympus"...

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Ludovisi collection Collections of the National Roman Museum Hellenistic-style Roman sculptures 1st-century Roman sculptures Marble sculptures in Italy Sculptures of women in Italy Sculptures of Roman goddesses Juno (mythology) {{Italy-sculpture-stub