The Jupiter Hall is one of the suite of museum rooms in the New Hermitage (1842–51) that were finished in the spirit of the architecture of Antiquity to designs by Leo von Klenze. The walls and pilasters are faced with green artificial marble. The vaults are decorated with stuccowork. The design of the ceiling includes medallions containing portraits of famous sculptors.
The hall houses a display of Roman sculpture. The panorama includes one of the masterpieces of the collection – a portrait bust of Lucius Verus (with a breastplate and drapery over one shoulder), who was co-ruler from AD 161 to 169 with Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161–180). A bust and statue of the latter are also on show in this part of the hall. The full-length statue of Marcus Aurelius is an example of 18th-century restoration, in which the portrait head alone dates from Ancient Rome.
Note the late 2nd-century sarcophagus bearing high-relief depictions of episodes from the tale of Phaedra and Hippolytus.
