Barberini Hera

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Head of the Barberini Hera type (Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican Museums)
Head of the Barberini Hera type (Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican Museums)
The full Barberini Hera (Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums)
The full Barberini Hera (Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums)

The Barberini Hera or Barberini Juno is a type of sculpture of Hera or Juno, standing, wearing a crown and peplos (which clings to show her form beneath and has dropped from her left shoulder, nearly revealing her breast) and holding a sceptre in her right hand and a patera in her left. It is named after the owners of its archetype, the Barberini. This archetype is a Roman copy of a Greek original, possibly by Alcamenes, and is now in the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican Museums