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Marphurius[1][2][3] or Marforio (Italian: Marforio; Medieval Latin: Marphurius, Marforius) is one of the talking statues of Rome. Marforio maintained a friendly rivalry with his most prominent rival, Pasquin. As at the other five "talking statues", pasquinades—irreverent satires poking fun at public figures—were posted beside Marforio in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Marphurius
Italian: Marforio
Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini
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Year	1st century AD
Type	Talking statues of Rome
Subject	Oceanus The name is a corruption of Latin mare in foro, "the sea in the forum" (inscribed near the statue's original location)
Location	Palazzo Nuovo
Coordinates	41°53′37.50″N 12°28′59.77″E

The statue and its location

Marforio is a large 1st century Roman marble sculpture of a reclining bearded river god or Oceanus,[4] which in the past has been variously identified as a depiction of Jupiter, Neptune, or the Tiber. It was the humanist and antiquarian Andrea Fulvio who first identified it as a river god, in 1527.[5] The Marfoi was a landmark in Rome from the late 12th century.[6] Poggio Bracciolini wrote of it as one of the sculptures surviving from Antiquity,[7] and in the early 16th century it was still near the Arch of Septimius Severus, where the various authors reported it.[8]

The origin of its name is a matter of some debate. It was discovered with a granite basin bearing the inscription mare in foro,[9] but may take its name from the Latin name for the area in which it was discovered (Martis Forum), or from the Marioli (or Marfuoli) family who owned property near the Mamertine Prison, also near the forum, where the statue was sat until 1588.

Pope Sixtus V had the statue moved to the Piazza San Marco, (in Rome) in 1588, and then to the piazza del Campidoglio in 1592, where it decorates a fountain designed by Giacomo della Porta on a wall of the Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, facing the Palazzo dei Conservatori. Part of the face, the right foot, and the left hand holding a shell were restored in 1594. In 1645, the building of the Palazzo Nuovo enclosed the fountain in its courtyard.

See also

• The Scior Carera in Milan.

Notes

Bibliography

• Rendina, C., "Pasquino statua parlante”, ROMA ieri, oggi, domani, n. 20, February 1990.

External links

• Roma Segreta: Marforio (in Italian)
• Marforio
• The Insider's Guide to Rome, p.73
• Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, p.106
• Marforio

Media related to Marforio at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by Il Facchino

Landmarks of Rome Marforio

Succeeded by Fontana del Moro

На других языках

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[de] Marforio

Der Marforio ist eine der sechs sogenannten „sprechenden“ Statuen Roms. Wie auch bei den anderen wurden an ihm im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert Pasquinaden, Schmäh- oder Spottschriften, veröffentlicht. Meist richteten sich die spöttischen, in Dialogform verfassten Verse, gegen unakzeptable Verhaltensweisen der Herrschenden: Die Statuen kommunizierten also gewissermaßen untereinander.

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- [en] Marforio

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[es] Marforio

Marforio es una de las seis estatuas parlantes de Roma, la más conocida después de la de Pasquino. Es una enorme escultura de mármol, de la época romana, realizada en el siglo I d.C., que representa quizá a Neptuno, o al río Tíber.

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[it] Marforio

Marforio è un'enorme scultura marmorea di epoca romana, risalente al I secolo, raffigurante forse il dio Nettuno, l'Oceano o il Tevere. Fu una delle sei statue parlanti di Roma, forse la più nota dopo Pasquino. La statua è conservata nei Musei capitolini.

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