DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.52594#0441
Roman Portraiture.
The earlier identification of this beautiful and soulful
portrait, which is among the very best in the Glyptotek, as
Agrippina the Elder, the proud wife of Germanicus, is wrong
because the head does not resemble the other certain por-
traits of this woman (cf. Carlo Pietrangeli: La famiglia di
Augusto p. 25. For other literature on Agrippina the Elder
see under No. 535. See further Bernoulli: Rom. Ikon. II I pl.
XV. Hekler: Bildniskunst 212 b. Delbriick: Bildnisse rom.
Kaiser pl. 8. Robert West: Rom. Portratplastik I pl. XLIV
191-93). But it is closely related to two heads—one at Milan,
and one that was earlier in the Woodyat collection at Naples
—which again come very close to the known and certain
portraits of the younger Agrippina. See under No. 636. There
cannot be the slightest doubt that this pathetic female head
is a portrait of the younger Agrippina in her last years
(demonstrated by V. H. Poulsen, Acta Arch. XVII 1946 p. 41
seqq.).
Billedtavler pl. LI. A. B. 711-121’ Mau, Rom. Mitt. VII 1892 p. 234 seqq.
Hekler: Bildniskunst 213. Furtwangler-UrlichsS p. 178 fig. 63 M. Ahrem:
Das Weib in der antiken Kunst p. 291 fig 269. Steininger: Weibliche Haar-
trachten p. 22 note 2. R. West: Rom. Portratplastik I p. 180 and pl. XLIV
194. Eugenie Strong: Rome antique (Ars Una) p. 164 fig. 240. Cf. the gem
ibid. fig. 241. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture p, 335, pl. 132 b. V. H.
Poulsen 1. c. and Journ. of the Walters Art Gallery XI 1948 p. 10.
631. (I. N. 744). A boy. Bust. M.
H. 0.23. The tip of the nose restored, the ears bruised. Acquisition
and provenance as No. 601.
The quite small bust terminating just below the neck and
the thready hair make it probable that this portrait of a boy
belongs to the beginning of the time of the emperor Augustus.
Diepolder suggests the beginning of the reign of Claudius.
Billedtavler pl. LI. A. B. 70. Rom. Mitt. 54, 1939, p. 272 note 1. Journal
of the Walters Art Gallery XI, 1948, p. 12.
632. (I. N. 757). An infant. Head. M.
H. 0.12. The nose and ears bruised, the surface much scratched.
Acquired from Rome.
The conception of the tender features is right especially
as far as the cranium, the mouth and the small snubnose
are concerned. The hair is rendered by incised lines, the
437
The earlier identification of this beautiful and soulful
portrait, which is among the very best in the Glyptotek, as
Agrippina the Elder, the proud wife of Germanicus, is wrong
because the head does not resemble the other certain por-
traits of this woman (cf. Carlo Pietrangeli: La famiglia di
Augusto p. 25. For other literature on Agrippina the Elder
see under No. 535. See further Bernoulli: Rom. Ikon. II I pl.
XV. Hekler: Bildniskunst 212 b. Delbriick: Bildnisse rom.
Kaiser pl. 8. Robert West: Rom. Portratplastik I pl. XLIV
191-93). But it is closely related to two heads—one at Milan,
and one that was earlier in the Woodyat collection at Naples
—which again come very close to the known and certain
portraits of the younger Agrippina. See under No. 636. There
cannot be the slightest doubt that this pathetic female head
is a portrait of the younger Agrippina in her last years
(demonstrated by V. H. Poulsen, Acta Arch. XVII 1946 p. 41
seqq.).
Billedtavler pl. LI. A. B. 711-121’ Mau, Rom. Mitt. VII 1892 p. 234 seqq.
Hekler: Bildniskunst 213. Furtwangler-UrlichsS p. 178 fig. 63 M. Ahrem:
Das Weib in der antiken Kunst p. 291 fig 269. Steininger: Weibliche Haar-
trachten p. 22 note 2. R. West: Rom. Portratplastik I p. 180 and pl. XLIV
194. Eugenie Strong: Rome antique (Ars Una) p. 164 fig. 240. Cf. the gem
ibid. fig. 241. A. W. Lawrence: Classical Sculpture p, 335, pl. 132 b. V. H.
Poulsen 1. c. and Journ. of the Walters Art Gallery XI 1948 p. 10.
631. (I. N. 744). A boy. Bust. M.
H. 0.23. The tip of the nose restored, the ears bruised. Acquisition
and provenance as No. 601.
The quite small bust terminating just below the neck and
the thready hair make it probable that this portrait of a boy
belongs to the beginning of the time of the emperor Augustus.
Diepolder suggests the beginning of the reign of Claudius.
Billedtavler pl. LI. A. B. 70. Rom. Mitt. 54, 1939, p. 272 note 1. Journal
of the Walters Art Gallery XI, 1948, p. 12.
632. (I. N. 757). An infant. Head. M.
H. 0.12. The nose and ears bruised, the surface much scratched.
Acquired from Rome.
The conception of the tender features is right especially
as far as the cranium, the mouth and the small snubnose
are concerned. The hair is rendered by incised lines, the
437