PARISI AMBROGIO
Connu en Italie depuis 1676 - Rome, 1719

JULES CÉSAR,
D’APRÈS L’ANTIQUE

Marbre, 1688-1694

Placé au jardin des Tuileries en 1800
M.R. 2099

La restauration de cette statue a bénéficié du soutien du Fonds Atland au sein du Fonds de dotation du Louvre.

One of the statues in the Tuileries Gardens.
Work on the statue made by Ambrogio Parisi began in 1688 and is based on an ancient statue that was in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Work on the statue continued until 1694. The statue left Rome only in 1715, and went through many incarnations until it was found in one of the antiquities warehouses of the Louvre Museum in 1800, and then it was decided to place it in the Tuileries Gardens.
The statue is made of marble and is 3 meters high.

The statue shows Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC), perhaps the most famous emperor of the Roman Republic.
who conquered many territories, and crowned himself as the sole ruler until he was murdered by the senator Brutus (the sentence "Et tu, Brute?" (You too Brutus) from Shakespeare’s play became an image for severe betrayal by a close and loved person).

The statue was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
PARISI AMBROGIO
Known in Italy since 1676 - Rome, 1719

JULIUS CAESAR,
ACCORDING TO THE ANTIQUE

Marble, 1688-1694

Placed in the Tuileries garden in 1800
M.R. 2099

The restoration of this statue benefited from the support of the Atland Fund within the Louvre Endowment Fund.