Hora-Carpo

Hora-Carpo, Carrara marble, first century A.D. with mid 16th century integrations ,height 1,51 m. A life-size sculpture crafted from the finest Carrara marble in the first
century AD, the piece loaned out to the Italian Pavilion by the Galleria
degli Uffizi in Florence portrays one of the Horai, female deities
associated with the fertility of the soil. According to Greek mythology,
these daughters of Zeus and Themis guarded the seasons, protecting
and nourishing the fruits of the earth to ensure a plentiful harvest.