A CARVED 'GRAND TOUR' WOOD MODEL OF THE TEMPLE OF HERA AT PAESTUM AFTER DOMENICO PADIGLIONE, MODERN 140cm wide, 46cm high, 70cm deep Provenance: The Simon Neal Collection Paestum was the Roman name of Greek colony Poseidonia, which was established to the south of Naples around 600 BC. The temples were discovered in 1746 by the architect Mario Gioffredi and in the late 1760s, Vincenzo Brenna (1745 - c.1814) made cork models of the Paestum Temples for the collector Charles Townley. There are also cork models of Paestum at the Sir John Soane Museum, London, variously attributed to Domenico Padiglione (1756 - 1832) and Augusto Rosa (1738 - 1784) and dated to c.1820 and c.1777, respectively.