Headache Caryatid

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This caryatid, originally headless and missing forearms and toes, is drapped in cloth. The head, now cast in plaster, is due to intervention from the early 20th century, where the head was found to have been mounted in a restoration during the Renaissance and was not the original. The head was replaced with a cast of another head from a caryatid from the same collection. The original Renassiance head is also kept in the same collection.  The caryatid was typically used in Roman times as a decorative element and architectural support, acting as a pillar for important buildings. It was potentially made in the Hadrianic period, and gifted to Antonio Grimani from the inhabitants of Ossero, arriving from the island of Cres.