18th century Italian school, after the antique
Asclepios
Marble sculpture
H. 43 cm
Related work :
Esculapio, marble, Naples, Farnese Collection, National Archaeological Museum, inv. 6360.
Asclepius or Aesculapius, son of Apollo and Coronis, trained as a physician with the Centaur Chiron. He became the god, and is traditionally depicted as a bearded man carrying a staff with a snake wrapped around it.
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