The Roman bust was discovered in the town of Otricoli, about 70 km north of Rome, during excavations in the 1770s undertaken at the behest of Pope Pius VI, who expanded the Vatican’s museum collections through such projects. ” A year later, Fanny wrote in a letter to her brother-in-law Sam Longfellow, “We, at present, take our meals under Jupiter which we find charming these happy summer mornings.” That year Henry and Fanny Longfellow recorded the arrangement of furniture for their son Charley’s second birthday dinner, writing, “there were two supper tables, one in the dining room, + one in the hall adjoining under the colossal bust of Jupiter. This 19th-century plaster copy of a Roman bust (itself a copy of an older Greek work) has been in the Longfellow House since 1846. Displayed in the west end of the chamber known as the “Blue Entry” on the first floor of the Longfellow House is this massive bust of Jupiter.
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