Giustini-Neigebauer type Bronze Antique Sculpture of Asclepius.
Italy, circa 1850
Height: 32 cms (12.5 ins)
Width: 13 cms (5 ins)
Depth: 8 cms (3 ins)
The Greek god Asclepius, a deity associated with healing and medicine stands in robes holding a staff with a snake wrapped around it. After the antique from a Greek original from the 4th century BC.
The statue is of the Giustini-Neigebauer type, derived from a Late Classical archetype dating back to the end of the Vth century A.D. The original Roman sculpture is housed in the Uffizi galleries, in Florence.
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