Ancient Sculptural Portraits

Classical busts and reliefs from various periods, presenting notable figures and deities, revealing artistic styles and cultural significance in ancient sculpture.

Head of Athena made of marble. Found in the Stoa of Attalos, Athens. The goddess wears the Corinthian helmet with raised cheek pieces adorned with relief ram's heads. This belongs to the Athena Giustiniani type and is a copy made in the 2nd century BC of an original dating from 400-390 BC

Head of Hermes. Probably a bigger part of a slab with face in high relief. 2nd century AD. From Serdica. National Archaeological Museum. Sofia. Bulgaria.

Alexander the Great (356BC-323BC). Italica, Andalusia.117-138 AD. Spain. Archaeological Museum of Seville. Andalusia. Spain.

GREEK ART. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA. Bust of Demeter, Greek goddess of agriculture. III-I centuries B.C. Ruins of Butrint Museum.

Cypriot sculpture in Greek style 350-250 BC. male head in local Hellenistic tradition

Roman Art. Unknown female head with hair in the style of Octavia, sister of Emperor Augustus. Marble. Palazzo Massimo. National Roman Museum. Rome.

'Relief: Medallion with a Woman's Head'. Italy, Early 18th century. Dimensions: 29,0x21,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Dipylon Head. ca. 590 BC. GREECE. Athens. Kerameikos. Archaic Greek art. Sculpture on marble. GREECE. ATTICA. Athens. National Museum of Archaeology.

Head of Athena made of marble. Found in the Stoa of Attalos, Athens. The goddess wears the Corinthian helmet with raised cheek pieces adorned with relief ram's heads. This belongs to the Athena Giustiniani type and is a copy made in the 2nd century BC of an original dating from 400-390 BC

Head of Hermes, god of trade, guardian of roads and messenger of the gods. Marble. Roman work. 2nd c. AD. After the Greek original of the 340-420 BC. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Female head, fragment, sculpture sculpture fragment sandstone stone, sculpted Sculpted woman head back face flat to attach to wall or larger picture.

161, Roman head of the poet Sappho, Istanbul, Turkey, Asia

Head of a Woman, 500-475 BC. Italy, Etruscan, 5th Century BC. Terracotta; overall: 20.3 cm (8 in.).

Portrait Head of a Priest Egyptian Art Stone Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, (Agyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung), Berlin, Germany

Portrait of the god Helios, Hellenistic period, Archaeological Museum in the former Order Hospital of the Knights of St. John, 15th century, Old Town, Rhodes Town, Greece, Europe

Women Sculpture, Archaeological Museum Ancient greek woman sculpture bust isolated on white background Copyright: xZoonar.com/DanielxFerreira-LeitesxCiccarinox 17049572

Portrait Head of Faustina Minor. Unknown

Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) (37-68). Roman Emperor, last representative of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Bust of the emperor with a laurel wreath. 1st century. Marble. Roman-Germanic Museum. Cologne. Germany.

Greek Art. Greece. 4th century BCE. Bronze statue of a young identified as Perseus with Medusa's head hanging. However, probably represents Paris and would subject the apple of discord. Attributed to the sculptor Euphranor of Corinth to 340-330 BC. Bust. National Archaeological Museum. Athens.

Bust of Alexander the Great, 4th century BC. Artist: Unknown

Sappho (c.612-c..570 B.C.). Ancient Greek poet. Bust. Black basalt. Copy of 16th-17th centuries from a Greek original. Palazzo Massimo. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.

Head from a statue of Apollo. Bronze. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. From Serdica (Sofia), Bulgaria. National Archaeological Museum. Sofia. Bulgaria.

SABINA (ANTES OCTAVIA). Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) (10 BC-54 AD). Roman emperor. Julio-Claudia, dynasty. Idealized bust. Marble. From Thassos, Greece. Louvre Museum. Paris.

Marble head of woman, from Ephesus, Turkey

Julia Agrippina, (Agrippina Minor); (AD 14 - 59). Roman Empress, 1st Century AD; Barcelona; Spain. Julia Agrippina, (Agrippina Minor); (AD 14 - 5 was a Roman Empress. great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.

Head of a Woman. Unknown

Portrait head of a ruler. Pentelic marble. Found in the sanctuary of Apollon on Delos. The head was inlaid in a statue. The diadem confirms that it is to be identified with a ruler. It probably depicts Alexander the Great or Mithridates, King of Pontos. 125-100 BC

Marble head of Juno, From Banasa (Morocco)

Alexander Severus (208-235). Roman Emperor from 222 to 235. Severan dynasty. Bust. Marble. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Ceres. 1st century-2nd century AD. White marble. Musei Reali. Archaelogical Museum. Turin.

Head of Ares from Ares Temple, Athens. Greek Classical statue.

Female portrait. Hispanic workshop. Last of the 1st century or beginning of the 2nd century AD. Calcareous stone. Frederic Mares Museum. Barcelona, Spain.

Marble head of a goddess wearing a diadem 1st-2nd century A.D. Roman Head of a woman wearing a diadem.. Marble head of a goddess wearing a diadem 254496 Roman, Marble head of a goddess wearing a diadem, 1st2nd century A.D., Marble, H. 9 1/16 in. (23 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Francis Neilson, 1942 (42.201.11)

Portrait of Ch Opc; Unknown Roman workshop; 1 PO. 1st century (1-00-00-50-00-00);Collection of ancient art

Roman Statue Fragment; 2nd century; Stone; 22.9 cm (9 in.)

Emperor Claudius. 41-54 AD ITALY.

Tanit goddess, Punic necropolis of Puig des Molins, originally from Sicily, 400-300 BC, Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, Spain.

Head of a Young Woman (Small Herculaneum Woman type). Unknown 25 B.C.-A.D. 25 The head depicts a young woman with even and entirely symmetrical features. Her face is in the shape of an oval with a smooth forehead below a semicircular hairline and terminates in a small but perfectly rounded chin. Under gently arched brows her almond-shaped eyes, though missing any indication of irises or pupils, appear slightly downcast; her nosefrom what is left of itwould have been slim; and the small mouth is softly embedded between the swelling flesh of her cheeks. The sensitive lips are slightly parted as if breathing or speaking. The idealized yet organic build of the face is crowned by a distinct hairstyle commonly referred to as a melon coiffure: the hair is divided into ten evenly spaced rows (lobes) running parallel from front to back. There they meet five additional rows starting from behind the ears and converge in a circular chignon whose center the sculptor left ill-defined. Each row is ma

Portrait Head of a Man. Roman. Date: 230 AD-270 AD. Dimensions: 38.1 × 26.7 × 24.1 cm (15 × 10 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.). Marble. Origin: Italy. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: ANCIENT ROMAN.

Marble bust of Agrippina the Younger (15-59) a Roman empress in the Julio-Claudian dynasty

Kopf des Satyrs Head of Satyr, Roman empire, mid 2nd century AD, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22896835

Marble head of a deity 1st half of 2nd century A.D. Roman The wreath with pomegranates suggests that this head represents a deity, such as Ceres, who was associated with the generative powers of nature.. Marble head of a deity 252916 Roman, Marble head of a deity, 1st half of 2nd century A.D., Marble, H. 13 5/8 in. (34.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1927 (27.122.1)

Portrait of Caracalla, by Unknown artist, 2nd Century d. C.,, very fine grain Greek marble. Italy. Lazio. Rome. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Sala XVIII - inv. 125565. Whole artwork. View from the right - curly hair beard face. From Rome, Via Cassia at km 11.5 (1948). State of preservation of missing a curl on the forehead, tip of nose, part of right ear pavilion and a part of left ear. Chippings

Funerary portrait from a Roman grave, within the Roman city, Barcelona, Spain. 1st Century AD

SELEUCO I NICATOR DE LISIPPO (358/280 AC) - REY Y FUNDADOR DE LA DINASTIA SELEUCIDA - GENERAL MACEDONIO - COPIA ROMANA DE UN ORIGINAL GRIEGO. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

Bust of Apollo, 1806 marble (rock) marble (rock)

Portrait bust of Dionysus, God of Wine and patron of wine making. Artist: Unknown

POMPEO 106-48 AC-ARTE ROMANO. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. Venedig. ITALIA. Pompeyo.

Alexander the Great (356 BC to 323BC). King of Macedonia (336 BC to 323 BC). Bust of Alexander the Great known as Azara herm. Roman copy, imperial period, centuries 1st-2nd BC) from an original in bronze of Lysippus , in 330 BC., found in Tivoli, Italy. Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Marble portrait of the Empress Faustina the Younger, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm). Date: ca. A.D. 161-180.The well-formed but rather puffy features, the prominent eyes, and the deeply waved hair exemplify mid-Antonine standards of beauty and are identifying traits of this empress. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Asia, Iran. Portrait of Mithridates VI, Empator King of Pont wearing a lion skin helmet. 120-63 BC. Iran

Reclining youth, 'Kladeos' (P) east pediment. Kladeos (or Cladeus,) is a River god.

Marble head of woman, Roman civilization, 1st century b.c.-1st century a.d.

Limestone head of a boy with a wreath of leaves 4th century B.C. Cypriot Figure beardless wearing wreath.. Limestone head of a boy with a wreath of leaves 242302

Head of a Bearded Man, c. 375 BCE, the Sculptor of the Pheidylla Stele, Greek, (Attica), active mid-late 4th century B.C., 11 1/2 x 8 in. (29.21 x 20.32 cm), Pentellic marble, Greece, 4th century BCE

Portrait Head of a Ruler. Unknown

Marble bust of a youth 1st or 2nd century A.D. Roman Copy of the head of a Greek statue of the 4th century B.C.The very short hair and the broken cartilage of the ears indicate that this head belonged to either a statue of Herakles or a victorious athlete. The Romans oftencreated decorative works by carving the heads of well-known Greek statues on busts or on rectangular herms. The surface of this piece has been severely cleaned, and the back may have been re-cut in modern times.. Marble bust of a youth. Roman. 1st or 2nd century A.D.. Marble. Imperial. Stone Sculpture

Vibia Sabina (83-136/137). Roman empress, wife of emperor Hadrian. 122-128 Ad. Bust. Marble. The Met. NY. USA.

Detail of a head of the statue of a goddess, probably Aphrodite. Roman copy of a greek original of the 3rd century BC. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.

Bust of the young; 117-138 (117-00-00-138-00-00);

Italy, Lazio, Rome, He Courtyard Of The Palazzo Dei Conservatori Part Of The Capitoline Museum With The Head Of The Colossal 4Th Century Statue Of Emperor Constantine I

Roman period. Female portrait. Vatican Museums. Chiaramonti.

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano27. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Byzantine architectural fragments; parchment fragments with miniatures (12th century) from Montecassino; painted wooden crucifix (13th century); Carolingian crucifixes; Bishop's miter (11th century) of gold and silver damask; fresco (13th century). Post-medieval: Architecture (15th century). Formerly the Palazzo Antignano. Unusual Catalan/Moorish-style portal; Paintings on panel and canvas (15th-18th centuries); marble intarsia (16th century); marble sculpture: busts of Christ and Mary (17th century); sculpture of saints in marble and in wood (15th century); painted and gilded sculpture in wood; marble grave sculpture (16th century); sarcophagus with allegorical carvings; gold reliquary "Rosa d'Oro"; crucifix made of elephant tusk Specific Location: Pianterreno Antiquities: Italic sculpture (seated women holding babies); inscription. Photo campaign #1: 533 photos. Roman relief and sculpture; cinerary urns; Greek an

Athena Parthenos. Amelia, Italy. AD 100-150. Bust. Marble. The goddess wears a helmet crowned by a sphinx flanked by winged horses. It is a copy of the gold and ivory statue by Phidias originally in the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD). Neronian-Flavian. 2nd half 1st century AD. Pentelic marble. Archaeological Museum Naples.

Pope's head crowned with a tiara (dummy title). rock. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris. This statue represents a holy pope. His beardless head, wearing the tiara, corrects the iconography of Saint Grégoire that we meet at the end of the Middle Ages, or possibly of Saint Sylvestre.

Marble head of a youth A.D. 117-161 Roman This idealized head is carved in a manner that brilliantly evokes the qualities of metal in the medium of stone. The polished flesh, sharply outlined eyes, and individualized locks of hair were all typical features of bronze sculpture that were imitated in marble as part of the classicizing taste that prevailed during the reign of the emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century A.D.. Marble head of a youth. Roman. A.D. 117-161. Marble, Pentelic . Hadrianic or Early Antonine. Stone Sculpture

Head of a Woman from a Funerary Monument; Asia Minor; about 75 B.C; Marble; 14 × 12.2 × 13.1 cm (5 1,2 × 4 13,16 × 5 3,16 in.)

BUSTO DE CORNELIO PUBLIO ESCIPION EL AFRICANO-GENERAL ROMANO 234/183 AC. Location: MUSEO CAPITOLINO. Rome. ITALIA.

Cleopatra bust.

Julius Caesar (c100-44 BC) Roman soldier and statesman. Portrait bust

cabeza del emperador Augusto,museo monografico de Conimbriga, ciudad del Conventus Scallabitanus, provincia romana de Lusitania, cerca de Condeixa-a-Nova, distrito de Coimbra, Portugal, europa.

Ganymede and the Eagle. Marble. 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums. Chiaramonti.

Head of Athena. Sculpture in white marble from a Roman workshop ( 1st century AD ). Empuries, GIrona. Museu Frederic Mares, Barcelona.

Empress of Rome Domitian Longina (55-126 AD) with Flavian hairstyle. Marble. 1st century AD. Louvre Museum.

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD.) Bust as a youth, marble, 2nd century AD. Roman Emperor (161-180 AD). Naples Archaeological Museum.

Head of Athena. Unknown

Marble Bust of Ptolemy of Mauretania 40 A.D. Prince and last Roman client King of Mauretania.

Busto de Faustina la Mayor (Annia Galeria Faustina), siglo II. Museo de Historia de Barcelona. Museum: Museo de Historia, Barcelona.

Head from an Acrolithic Statue. Unknown

Katherine Seney Simpson (Mrs. John W. Simpson). Dated: 1902-1903. Dimensions: overall: 55.4 x 69 x 41.5 cm (21 13/16 x 27 3/16 x 16 5/16 in.). Medium: marble. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: AUGUSTE RODIN.

marble portrait bust of Vibia Sabina Wife of Emperor Hadrian 100 AD

Head of Ares, god of war. Roman work. Early 2nd c. AD. After the Greek original of the 420 BC by Alkamenes. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Portrait of a Man; Unknown; Asia Minor; 1st century B.C.; Bronze; Object: H: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.)

Head from an Acrolithic Statue; Metapontum, Lucania, Italy; mid-5th century B.C; Marble; 23.3 × 11.1 × 14.1 cm (9 3,16 × 4 3,8 × 5 9,16 in.)

Domitian (51-96). Roman Emperor from 75 to 81 AD. Flavian Dynasty. Marble bust. Nat. Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy.

Head of young woman, N. M. Athens , Sculpture, Antiquities. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Marble head of Herakles. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm). Date: 1st century A.D..Small-scale copy of a Greek statue of the early 3rd century B.C.The Greek hero, Herakles, is shown as a beardless young man with sideburns. He has cauliflower ears-disfigured by boxing--and a victory wreath around his head. The head bears a strong resemblance to a group of Roman works, known as the Lenback type, that probably reflect more or less closely a Greek bronze statue of the early Hellenistic period. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Votive Head of a Female. Unknown

Head of a Woman, 400s BC. Greece, 5th Century BC. Terracotta; overall: 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.).

Marble head of woman, 30 b.c.-50 a.d., from Pergamon, Turkey

BUSTO FEMENINO PUNICO-EBUSITANO-KALATHOS-IV A C-PUIG MOLINS. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO / MUSEO DE PUIG DES MOLINS. IBIZA. SPAIN.

DESBOIS, Jules (n.1851-12-20-D.1935-10-02), Women's mask (main title), 1914. Terracotta. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Turkey, Ephesus. Ephesus Museum. Marble bust of Menandros, circa 4th century A.D.

Head of Tiberius. Tiberius Caesar Augustus (16 November 42 BC - 16 March AD 37) was the second Roman emperor. He reigned from AD 14 until 37, succeeding his stepfather, the first Roman emperor Augustus. Marble sculpture, Roman, 1st century AD

Marble portrait of a young woman. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: H. 10 3/16 in. (25.9 cm). Date: A.D. 150-175.The hairstyle, deeply drilled eyes, and expression, all point to a second century A.D. date for this private Roman portrait of a young woman. Moreover, the high polish of the flesh and the oval shape of the looped knot of hair in the back are found on portraits associated with the court of the emperor Lucius Verus, who reigned from A.D. 161 through 169. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD). Emperor of Rome from 161 to 180. Antonine Dynasty. Marcus Aurelius as a youth. AD. 147-151. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Relief Portrait of an Antonine Prince; Asia Minor; A.D. 140-150; Marble; 23.5 cm (9 1,4 in.)

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Trajan's Market, bust of Constantine 1st Century AD.

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