Portrait Bust of a Man
27 BC-AD 14
Maker Unknown
Greek and Roman Art
Portrait Bust of a Man, 27 BC-AD 14. Italy, Roman, Augustan period. Bronze; overall: 38.1 x 21.6 cm (15 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1928.860 The realistic features of this fine life-sized portrait include wrinkles in the forehead and beside each eye, and very naturalistic ears, protruding but not quite symmetrical. The stylized hair is neatly arranged and suggests a date in the Augustan period, although some scholars have seen it as late Republican. Likely once topping a shaft as a herm bust, the portrait’s subject—now unknown—would have been identified by an inscription. This portrait originally had inlaid eyes, probably in stone, glass, or ivory.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- bronze
- Medium
- bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 38.1 x 21.6 cm (15 x 8 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Greek and Roman Art
- Accession Number
- 1928.860
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Exhibitions
- Master Bronzes from the Classical World, Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture, The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 103 Roman
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