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HEAD OF A ROMAN 57
age of the Republic to the reign of Tiberius, and is perhaps con-
nected with Pompeius’s famed dvaaroA??.1
?4
BUST OF AN ELDERLY ROMAN. (Lansdowne House.)
[Foot of bust modern ; bust itself ancient. Height without
foot 0-39. Marble. Small parts of ears and right-hand corner of
mouth restored in plaster. Nose tip slightly damaged. Otherwise
in excellent preservation.]
This fine portrait may be dated to the beginning of the Imperial
period both by the undercut forehead hair (cf. no. 33) and by the
cutting off of the bust at the middle of the shoulder.2 What is peculiar
is the contrast between the firm expression of the face in front view
and the much milder expression of the profile.
(Michaelis, p. 448, no. 48 ; A. H. Smith, Catalogue of Lansdowne House,
no. 103.)
HEAD OF A MIDDLE-AGED ROMAN. (Wilton House.)
[Alabaster bust with inscription ‘ Marcus Brutus ’ modern.
Marble. Height of head 0-25. Head, neck, and beginning of breast
with strongly modelled collar-bone in one piece and obviously
original bust cut off high up as in no. 34. Restored in marble :
nose-tip and small piece of chin ; ears damaged.]
This is a lively, one might almost say rather brutal, face, the date
of which is fixed by the shape of the bust and treatment of the hair,
1 Arndt-Bruckmann, 77-8, 593-7, 691-4. 2 On the development of the bust see
Already effaced in the head, ih. 259. Hek- the latest treatment in R. Delbriick, An-
ler, Greek and Roman Portraits, p. xxxvi, tike Portrats, p. XLVI, note 1. Cf. as
and pl. 189 b, 190, 195 a ; Stuart Jones, important for the dating of this shape
Museo Capitolino, pl. 88, no. 16 (p. 355) ; Ny Carlsberg, 610, 612, 615, 623 ; Hekler,
Esperandieu, Recneil general, ii, p. 64, Greek and Roman Portraits, 166 and 174 ;
no. 957. A general treatment in F. Poulsen, Arndt-Bruckmann, 249-50.
Tidskrift for Konstvetenskap, i,1916, p. 143.
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age of the Republic to the reign of Tiberius, and is perhaps con-
nected with Pompeius’s famed dvaaroA??.1
?4
BUST OF AN ELDERLY ROMAN. (Lansdowne House.)
[Foot of bust modern ; bust itself ancient. Height without
foot 0-39. Marble. Small parts of ears and right-hand corner of
mouth restored in plaster. Nose tip slightly damaged. Otherwise
in excellent preservation.]
This fine portrait may be dated to the beginning of the Imperial
period both by the undercut forehead hair (cf. no. 33) and by the
cutting off of the bust at the middle of the shoulder.2 What is peculiar
is the contrast between the firm expression of the face in front view
and the much milder expression of the profile.
(Michaelis, p. 448, no. 48 ; A. H. Smith, Catalogue of Lansdowne House,
no. 103.)
HEAD OF A MIDDLE-AGED ROMAN. (Wilton House.)
[Alabaster bust with inscription ‘ Marcus Brutus ’ modern.
Marble. Height of head 0-25. Head, neck, and beginning of breast
with strongly modelled collar-bone in one piece and obviously
original bust cut off high up as in no. 34. Restored in marble :
nose-tip and small piece of chin ; ears damaged.]
This is a lively, one might almost say rather brutal, face, the date
of which is fixed by the shape of the bust and treatment of the hair,
1 Arndt-Bruckmann, 77-8, 593-7, 691-4. 2 On the development of the bust see
Already effaced in the head, ih. 259. Hek- the latest treatment in R. Delbriick, An-
ler, Greek and Roman Portraits, p. xxxvi, tike Portrats, p. XLVI, note 1. Cf. as
and pl. 189 b, 190, 195 a ; Stuart Jones, important for the dating of this shape
Museo Capitolino, pl. 88, no. 16 (p. 355) ; Ny Carlsberg, 610, 612, 615, 623 ; Hekler,
Esperandieu, Recneil general, ii, p. 64, Greek and Roman Portraits, 166 and 174 ;
no. 957. A general treatment in F. Poulsen, Arndt-Bruckmann, 249-50.
Tidskrift for Konstvetenskap, i,1916, p. 143.
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