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The ''Sleeping Hermaphroditus'' is an ancient marble sculpture depicting Hermaphroditus life size, reclining on a mattress sculpted by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1620. The form is partly derived from ancient portrayals of Venus and other female nudes, and partly from contemporaneous feminised Hellenistic portrayals of Dionysus/Bacchus. It represents a subject that was much repeated in Hellenistic times and in ancient Rome, to judge from the number of versions that have survived. Discovered at Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, the ''Sleeping Hermaphroditus'' was immediately claimed by Cardinal Scipione Borghese and became part of the Borghese Collection. The "Borghese Hermaphroditus" was later sold to the occupying French and was moved to The Louvre, where it is on display today. The ''Sleeping Hermaphroditus'' has been described as a good early Imperial Roman copy of a bronze original by the later of the two Hellenistic sculptors named Polycles (working ''ca'' 155 BC);〔Robertson, ''A History of Greek Art'', (1975), vol. I:551-52.〕 the original bronze was mentioned in Pliny's Natural History.〔Pliny, ''Hist. Nat.'', XXXIV.80.〕 ==Original Borghese copy== The ancient sculpture was discovered in the first decades of the seventeenth century—unearthed in the grounds of Santa Maria della Vittoria, near the Baths of Diocletian and within the bounds of the ancient Gardens of Sallust. The discovery was made either when the church foundations were being dug (in 1608) or when espaliers were being planted.〔According to two seventeenth-century accounts noted in Haskell and Penny 1981:234.〕 The sculpture was presented to the connoisseur, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who in return granted the order the services of his architect Giovanni Battista Soria and paid for the façade of the church, albeit sixteen years later. In his new Villa Borghese, a room called the Room of the Hermaphrodite was devoted to it. In 1620, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Scipione's protégé, was paid sixty ''scudi'' for making the buttoned mattress upon which the Hermaphroditus reclines, so strikingly realistic that visitors are inclined to give it a testing prod.〔Borghese accounts.〕〔Haskell and Penny, 1981:235.〕 The sculpture was purchased in 1807 with many other pieces from the Borghese Collection, from principe Camillo Borghese, who had married Pauline Bonaparte, and was transferred to The Louvre, where it inspired Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem "Hermaphroditus" in 1863.〔(Text of "Hermaphroditus" )〕 Image:Hermafrodita 1.JPG|Musée du Louvre Image:BorgheseHermaphroditusLouvre-front.jpg|Front Image:Sleeping Hermaphroditus with Bernini Mattress.jpg|Back Image:Sleeping Hermaphroditus Louvre Ma231 face.jpg|Detail Image:Louvre - Sleeping Hermaphroditus 03.jpg|Top 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sleeping Hermaphroditus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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