Seat Theater

Made from Bardiglio marble with traces of polychrome from a Greek prototype from the 4th century B.C., this seat of honour is from the first row of a Greek theatre in the area of Colophon near Smyrna in Asia Minor. It was renovated in the Middle Ages, probably to be used in a church as a bishop's throne.
This is a work of extraordinary craftsmanship and great emotional quality, which local tradition identified as the Throne of Virgil, as if to reserve for the great poet the role of prince and patron of the city.