[9] The sculpture was made of Parian marble, and is generally considered to be a posthumous and deified portrait of Antonia Minor, mother of Claudius.

[1] The painting, Landscape with Roman Ruins by painter Herman Posthumus depicts the bust at forefront, surrounded by Egyptian and Roman sculpture fragments with a quote from Ovid's Metamorphoses: "TEMPVS EDAX RERVM TVQVE INVIDIOSA VESTVSTAS O[MN]IA DESTRVITIS" (Translated: Oh, most voracious time, and you, envious Age, you destroy everything).

[14] The American-British novelist Henry James mentions the Ludovisi Juno several times including in his first long form novel Roderick Hudson.

He described it in its surround as follows..."One warm, still day, late in the Roman autumn, our two young men were seated beneath one of the high-stemmed pines of the Villa Ludovisi.

They had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden-house where the colossal mask of the famous Juno looks out with blank eyes from that dusky corner which must seem to her the last possible stage of a lapse from Olympus"...[15]