page_title: Giustiniani Hestia
section_title: Identification
hierarchical_section_title: Giustiniani Hestia / Identification
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Vesta Giustiniani oder Giustinianische Vesta (Hestia) im Museo Torlonia in Rom, eine weibliche Gewandstatue strengen Stils.
context_page_description: The Giustiniani Hestia is a finely-executed marble sculpture, a perhaps Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek bronze of about 470 BCE, now in the Torlonia Collection, Rome, but named for its early owner, marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani. It is the only known Early Classical bronze that was reproduced at full size in marble for a Roman collection: Roman taste ran more towards the Hellenistic baroque.
context_section_description: Contemporary scholars are less certain about the sculpture's identification as Hestia, in part because of literary references to her imageless sanctuaries, though a similar figure is painted on a cup at Berlin attributed to the Sosias Painter (Lachenal): Demeter and Hera are alternative candidates. Often such attribution issues are skirted in modern scholarship by designating such sculptures simply as peplophoroi ("peplum-wearers")
caption: The Giustiniani Hestia in O. Seyffert, Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1894
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