La Zingarella

La Zingarella or Gypsy Girl is a 140 centimetres (55 in) tall statue of Diana,[2] a combination of an ancient body with additions commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese[3] and executed by Nicolas Cordier, between 1607 and 1612.

The additions, a head and the extremities of the body, were in bronze, and white and grey marble.

Recent restoration, which removed a thick black patina added to tone down the statue to suit 19th-century taste, revealed a gold clasp.

[1] Its assembly from ancient and modern elements makes it an exotic, almost orientalizing work.

[5] Visconti described the statue as Diana, detto volgarmente la Zingarella.