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Roman Portrait
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10/12/2024

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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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