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ROMAN ART
FEROCIOUS SHE WOLF TURNS TOWARD us with a vicious snarl. Her tense body thin flanks and protruding ribs contrast with her heavy, milk filled teats. Incongruously, she suckles two active chubby little boys. We are looking at the most famous symbol of Rome: the legendary wolf who nourished and saved the city's founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus. According to a Roman legend, the twin sons of the god Mars and a mortal woman were left to die on the banks of the Tiber River by their wicked uncle. A she-wolf discovered the infants and nursed them in place of her own pups the twins were later raised by a shepherd. When they reached adulthood the twins decided to build a city near the spot where the wolf had rescued them according to tradition in the year 753 ÂÑÅ.
This composite sculptural group of wolf and boys suggests the complexities of art history on the Italian peninsula. An early people called Etruscans created the bronze wolf about 500 ÂÑÅ and Romans added the sculpture of children to it in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century CE. This figure is thus a fitting image for the way the themes and styles of the Etruscans and the later Romans combined.
We know that a statue of a wolf—and sometimes even a live wolf in a cage—stood on the Capitolme Hill: the governmental and religious center of ancient Rome. But whether the wolf is the same sculpture that Romans saw then is far from certain. According to tradition, the original bronze wolf was struck by lightning and buried. The documented history of this She Wolf begins in the tenth century CE, when it was rediscovered and placed outside the Lateran Palace, the home of the pope. At that time statues of two small men stood under the wolf personifying the alliance between the Romans and their former enemies from central Italy, the Sabines. But in the later Middle Ages people mistook the figures for children and identified the sculpture with...
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