File:Isis, Glyptothek Munich, Nr. 29.JPG

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English: Two fragmentary sculptures share a common history: At an unknown time, a torso of a statue of the goddess Isis was combined with the head of a priest’s statue (made of similar black stone but somewhat too small in size). In the 18th century, the resulting pasticcio statue was part of the famous Albani collection in Rome. From that collection, it was acquired for the Glyptothek in Munich. After World War II, the two elements were separated and transferred to the new collection of Egyptian art.
Isis torso: 3rd century BC (see exhibition catalogue 1966) or 1st century BC (see exhibition catalogue 1978).
Head: 3rd century BC (see exhibition catalogue 1966).

Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich.

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  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums. Erster Theil. In der Waltherischen Hof-Buchhandlung, Dresden 1764 (online), p. 48: “Denn an einer Aegyptischen Isis, aber vom späteren und schöneren Stil, in der Villa Albani, sind auf den Brüsten derselben, welche dem ersten Anblicke entblößet zu seyn scheinen, fast unmerkliche erhobene Falten gezogen, welche in eben der Richtung sich von dem Mittelpunkte ausbreiten. An dem Leibe jener Figuren muß die Kleidung bloß gedacht werden.”
  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums (= Johann Winckelmanns sämtliche Werke. Einzige vollständige Ausgabe. Band 3). Verlag deutscher Klassiker, Donaueschingen 1825 (online), p. 191: “Denn an einer ägyptischen Isis, aber vom spätern Styl, in der Villa Albani, sind auf den Brüsten derselben, welche bei dem ersten Anblike entblößt zu sein scheinen, fast unmerkliche erhobene Falten gezogen, die in eben der Richtung sich von dem Mittelpunkte ausbreiten. An dem Leibe jener Figuren muß die Kleidung bloß gedacht werden.”
  • [“Statue”:] Ludwig Schorn, in: Beschreibung der Glyptothek Sr. Majestät des Königs Ludwig I. von Bayern. Architektonischer Teil von Leo von Klenze, Verzeichniss der Bilderwerke und Gemälde von Ludwig Schorn. In Commission der J. G. Cotta’schen lit. artist. Anstalt, München 1830 (online), pp. 13–14 no. 17. (The 1830, 1833, 1837 editions seem to have the same text. The French edition of 1835 is abridged.)
  • [“Statue”:] Heinrich Brunn: Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig’s I. zu München. 5th edition. In Commission bei Theodor Ackermann, München 1887 (online), pp. 28–29 no. 17 (detailed description of what can actually be seen).
  • [“Statue”:] Adolf Furtwängler: Illustrierter Katalog der Glyptothek König Ludwig’s I. zu München. Kgl. Hof-Buchdruckerei Kastner & Callwey, München 1907 (online), p. 5 no. 29 plate 3 (just four lines of text, and photo).
  • [“Statue”:] Adolf Furtwängler: Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig’s I. zu München. Zweite Auflage besorgt von Paul Wolters. In Kommission bei A. Buchholz, München 1910 (online), pp. 32–33 no. 29 (detailed description, bibliography, no illustration).
  • [“Statue”:] Paul Wolters: Führer durch die Glyptothek König Ludwigs I. zu München. Illustrierte Ausgabe. Buchdruckerei und Verlagsanstalt Carl Gerber, München 1922 (online), p. 9 no. 29 (just four lines of text).
  • [Head of a priest’s statue:] Die Ägyptische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates. Ausstellung in den Ausstellungsräumen der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung (...). München 1966, no. 93 (illustrated in the appendix of plates).
  • [Isis torso:] Die Ägyptische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates. Ausstellung in den Ausstellungsräumen der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung (...). München 1966, no. 91 (illustrated in the appendix of plates).
  • [Isis torso:] Götter – Pharaonen (catalogue of an exhibition in Essen, Munich etc.). Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1978, no. 127.
  • [“Statue”:] Presumably, the statue is also mentioned somewhere in the multi-volume series: Forschungen zur Villa Albani, 1982–2004, as it once was part of the Albani collection.
  • At this time (February 2022), the museum website does not seem to offer any information about the Isis torso and its former head.
institution QS:P195,Q162077
Current location
Room 2 (as of 1907). After WW II, the statue was moved from the Glyptothek to the Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst, which is now Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich.
Accession number
Inv. 29
Source/Photographer Munich. Glyptothek; de:Adolf Furtwängler (1853-1907) (1907) (in German) Illustrierter Katalog, Munich: Kgl. Hof-Buchdruckerei Kastner & Callwey Retrieved on 29 April 2011.
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  • „Statue“ (Pasticcio), 1907
    „Statue“ (Pasticcio), 1907
  • Isis-Torso, 2014
    Isis-Torso, 2014
  • Isis-Torso, 2014
    Isis-Torso, 2014
  • Priesterkopf, 2017
    Priesterkopf, 2017
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