Ludovisi Ares

by SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

The Ludovisi Ares is an Antonine Roman marble sculpture of Mars, a fine 2nd-Century copy of a late 4th-Century BC Greek original, associated with Scopas or Lysippus: thus the Roman god of war receives his Greek name, Ares. Ares/Mars is portrayed as young and beardless and seated on a trophy of arms