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- Late Hellenistic Head from Delos
- ca. 100BC
- Bronze
- Quivering with Emotional pathos, acutely self-involved
- The Greek portrait subject is unaware of being observed |
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- The "Capiotline Brutus"
- 2nd Century BC
- Bronze
- Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
- The 'realism' of the verist portrait revealed as a set of conventions |
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- Unknown Roman
- ca. 40BC
- Metropolitan Museum
- "Veristic Portraiture
- Marks of age call attention to the conservative aristocracy's long service to the state and conformity to old-Roman Virtues |
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- Julius Caesar
- ca. 40 BC
- marble
- 10 1/4 inches high
- (Vatican Museum, Rome)
- Hellenizing style of propagandistic glamorisation
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- Augustus from Prima Porta
- ca. 14 AD
- marble
- (Vatican Museum, Rome)
- A Political icon of unmatched cogency and destiny of content |
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- Nero
- ca. 60 AD
- Marble
- 12 3/16 inches high
- (national Museum, Rome)
- Hellenistically tinged pathos and romantically sinister personalism |
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- Vespasian
- ca. 70 AD
- marble
- (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
- Veristic Style reintroduced to express businesslike sobriety and republican-flavoured traditionalist virtues |
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- Caracalla
- 209 AD
- 14 1/4 inches high
(Metropolitan Museum)
- Early Phase of late style: Prominent Forehead "V" and folds bracketing the mouth meet to form an "X" intersecting between (and emphasising) the eyes, in a system that becomes a telegraphic emblem of intense feeling |
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- Julia Soaemias ( usually called Julia Domna)
- ca. 210 AD
- Marble
- (Glyptothek, Munich)
- Reserved and internalised, this is the only example of a private portrait reproduced here (although its subject later became an empress) |
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- Colossal Head of Gordian III
- 238 AD
- ca. four times life-size
- (National Museum, Rome)
- Doubts, anxieties, hesitations distort the official mask |
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- Sixth-Century Empress, probably Theodora
- ca. 540AD
- marble
- 10 5/8 inches high
- (Castello Slorzesco, Milan)
- The great eyes, magnified to tremendous scale, turn frontally upon us with the full force of their attention |
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