page_title: Juno Ludovisi
hierarchical_section_title: Juno Ludovisi
caption_attribution_description: English: So-called “Hera Ludovisi”, actually a portrait of Antonia Minor. Parian marble, Roman artwork, 1st century CE. Français&#160;: «&#160;Héra Ludovisi&#160;», en réalité un portrait d'Antonia Minor. Marbre de Paros, œuvre romaine du Ier siècle ap. J.-C. Italiano: Cosiddetta “Hera Ludovisi”, veramente un ritratto di Antonia Minor. Marmo pariano, opera romana del I sec. d.C.
context_page_description: The Juno Ludovisi is a colossal Roman marble head of the 1st century CE from an acrolithic statue of an idealized and youthful Antonia Minor as the goddess Juno. Added to the Ludovisi collection formed by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, it is now in the Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
  Casts of it are to be seen at the University of Cambridge Classics Dept Casts Gallery., Bryn Mawr and the Goethehaus in Weimar, Germany and the University of Tartu Art Museum in Estonia.
  The American-British novelist Henry James wrote of the Ludovisi Juno several times including in his first long form novel Roderick Hudson. He described it in its surrlund 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"...
context_section_description: The Juno Ludovisi (also called Hera Ludovisi) is a colossal Roman marble head of the 1st century CE from an acrolithic statue of an idealized and youthful Antonia Minor as the goddess Juno.  Added to the Ludovisi collection formed by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, it is now in the Palazzo Altemps, Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
  Casts of it are to be seen at the University of Cambridge Classics Dept Casts Gallery., Bryn Mawr and the Goethehaus in Weimar, Germany  and the University of Tartu Art Museum in Estonia. 
  The American-British novelist Henry James wrote of the Ludovisi Juno several times including in his first long form novel Roderick Hudson.  He described it in its surrlund 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"...
caption: The Juno Ludovisi
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D70", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "DxO Optics Pro Standard MACOSX 3.55b.6377581.356110 MTF", "Image DateTime": "2006:09:07 15:57:01", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ReferenceBlackWhite": "[0, 255, 0, 255, 0, 255]", "Image DateTimeOriginal": "2006:09:07 15:57:01", "Image Tag 0x9216": "[1, 0, 0, 0]", "Image Tag 0xD000": "1", "Image ExifOffset": "370", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "8136", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5942", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/60", "EXIF FNumber": "16/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Aperture Priority", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "400", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2006:09:07 15:57:01", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2006:09:07 15:57:01", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "RedGreenBlue", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "5906891/1000000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "167807/50000", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "2", "EXIF MeteringMode": "CenterWeightedAverage", "EXIF LightSource": "Tungsten (incandescent light)", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "35", "EXIF SubSecTime": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "00", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2000", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3008", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 1, 0]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Manual", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "52", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "8012"}