Pasquino

Cardinal Oliviero Carafa had this shattered Hellenistic torso, probably a Menelaus carrying the body of Patroclus, set on a pedestal beside his palace in the Parione district in 1501. Within a few decades Romans were pasting cartelli on it, anonymous satirical verses against the pope and the city's powerful, and the name of a local tailor, Pasquino, attached itself to the statue and then to the genre. Johns Hopkins University's Stern Center holds a Lafréry engraving of about 1550 showing the statue already being read as a public noticeboard, and the square itself was renamed from Piazza Parione after it.

Statue Name
Pasquino
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasquino
Creation Year
Statue perhaps 3rd century BC; installed 1501
Current Use
restaurant

Category: Culture & History

Tags: pasquinade, talking statue, hellenistic, parione

Coordinates: 41.8979652, 12.4719058

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