An Italian Bronze Model of Ares, 19th Century

The Ludovisi Ares is a Roman marble sculpture of Mars, a fine 2nd-century copy of a late 4th-century B.C. Greek original, associated with Scopas or Lysippus thus the Roman god of war receives his Greek name, Ares. The small figure at the god's feet is most probably an invention of the seventeenth century Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).