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English: Statue of a mixoparthenos (two-tailed siren) from the New York Metropolitan museum. The museum placard reads "Siren, Bronze, Italian (Rome), ca. 1570-90. The siren, crowned and holding her two tails, was a heraldic device of the House of Colonna, a powerful Roman family. In all likelihood, this siren is the bronze named in a 1644 Barberini inventory, a Colonna princess having married into that family. It was no doubt intended for placement at a considerable height outdoors, where the extraordinary tumble of hair would have been seen to full advantage. Rogers and Edith Perry Chapman Funds, 2000. 2000.69
Date statue made ca. 1570-90, photo taken Sept 1, 2006
Source author unknown, photograph is my own work
Author photo taken by Y. Trottier
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