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 a Woman or aMuse

Agrippina the Elder. Portrait. Marble face. 1st Century AD. Prominent roman woman mother of Caligula Emperor. Archaeological Museum. Barcelona. Spain.

Roman Egypt. Mummy mask of a man with beard. 3nd century. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Head of Medusa 1796-1806 Italy. The great Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova dominated the artistic scene in Rome at the turn of the 19th century. This bust represents a partial study for his marble statue Perseus Holding the Head of Medusa (1797ñ1801). The face of Medusa, a monster from Greek mythology, had the power to petrify anyone who beheld it. Canova expressed the horror of Medusaís appearance and her death throes in this decapitated head. The sculptor initially modeled the work in clay, subsequently making a plaster mold of it. This preserved the freshness and spontaneity of the model while conveying a surface similar to the finished marble.. Plaster . Antonio Canova

Head 4th-7th century Coptic. Head 478727

Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869), said Dantan the young. Unknown mask. Terracotta and plaster. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Mask, plaster, terracotta

A Palmyrene priest. C. 190-210 A.C. Limestone. Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Faustina the Elder (100-140). Roman Empress and wife of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. Colossal portrait. From Hadrian's Villa. 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums. Vatican city.

Campania Salerno Padula Museo Archeologico della Lucania Occidentale9. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Antiquities: There are views of Ardean artifacts, including artefixes. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano25. 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

Socrates (469-399 BC) Ancient Greek philosopher. Marble portrait bust Archaeological Museum, Athens

Statue of goddes Minerva. Dressed in a chiton and himation which covers her head. Roman. Augustan period. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy.

Agripina Menor, procedente de la Plaça Sant Miquel de Barcelona. Museu Historia de Barcelona (MUHBA).

Biust portretowy. unknown, author

Lucius Caesar (17 BC-2 AD). Roman politician. Portrait of a boy. Marble. Work of a roman Neo-attic workshop. From Ercavica, province of Cuenca. Museum of Cuenca. Castile La Mancha. Spain.

Roman bust, Naples, Italy

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Herm of a Caryatid. Marble. Archaistic-style. Augustan age. From Horti Maecenatiani. Rome. Capitoline Museums. Rome. Italy.

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

Fragmentary Small Head of Serapis; Egypt; 1st - 2nd century; Marble, crystalline; 9 × 8.5 × 7.5 cm (3 9,16 × 3 3,8 × 2 15,16 in.)

Hermes Azara 1st Century A.D. Portrait of Alexander the Great

Marble statue of Kouros, known as Apollo Milani

Tiberius (42 BC 37 AD); Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Born Tiberius Claudius Nero, a Claudian, Tiberius was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced Nero and married Octavian, later known as Augustus, in 39 BC, making him a step-son of Octavian.

Marble head of a young woman, perhaps a muse. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: H. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm). Date: 3rd-2nd century B.C..The young girl wears a wreath and rests her head on her right hand. The head may come from a statuette of a Muse, one of the nine female figures that personified the arts. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Terracotta head of a youth 2nd century B.C. () Cypriot The head is mold-made and hollow. The neck is not preserved. He has an ovoid face with a high, broad forehead, rounded cheeks, and ridged eyelids. His short, overlapping locks of hair are grooved.. Terracotta head of a youth 241011

Head of a Woman with Crown 300 BCE-1 BCE Greece. terracotta . Ancient Greek

Emperor Antoninus Pius 1519-1524 Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Italian Working almost exclusively for the members of the Gonzaga family, frequently at their court in Mantua, Antico earned his nickname by specializing in interpretations of antique Greek and Roman sculpture. Trips to Rome on Gonzaga business afforded him occasions to see the latest discoveries of antiquities, which his patrons avidly collected; helping to acquire and repair those statues and busts gave the sculptor concrete knowledge of ancient art. His precise and elegant style owed much to the care with which he cast and chased his bronzes; this technical refinement of his work, as much as its evocation of the ancient world, appealed to generations of exacting patrons among the Gonzaga, from Gianfrancesco, to Francesco II and his famous wife Isabella dEste, to Federico II.Isabella appears to have owned five busts by Antico dating between 1519 and 1522: Cleopatra (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Bacchus, Ariadne (

Lucius Caesar (17BC-2AD). Son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. Adopted by emperor Augustus. Copy of plaster. Age of Augustus (27 BC-14 AD). Museum of the Ara Pacis. Rome, Italy.

'Paris'. Italy, circa 1819. Dimensions: height: 66,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Bust of young Commodus

Athenas of the Odescalchi type. Marble. Roman copy from the 2nd century AD after the 5th century BC Athenea Parthenos by Phidias. Found in Civitavecchia, Italy. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Vatican City Museums A Large Bust Of Caesar Augustus In The Courtyard Of The Belvedere Palace

Portrait Head of a Trajanic Lady; Roman Empire; early 2nd century A.D; Italian marble; 36.5 cm (14 3,8 in.)

Caligula (12-41 AD). 3rd Emperor of the Roman Empire. Julio-Claudia dynasty. Marble bust. Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

EMPERADOR CLAUDIO CORONADO DE HOJAS DE ROBLE (HALLADA EN ISLA DE THASOS). Location: MUSEO DEL LOUVRE-ESCULTURAS. France.

Female head, terracotta sculpture, from the site of Lavinium-Pratica di Mare, Lazio, Italy. Latin Civilization, 5th Century BC.

Youth 4th century B.C. Cypriot The figurine is mold-made and solid. The back is handmade and flat. The figure is preserved from the head to the waist; the original pose is uncertain.. Youth 241260

'Portrait of Domitia Longina'. Ancient Rome, first half of the 2nd century. Dimensions: height: 70 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Head of Apollo. Rome. Via Anagnina. Hadrianic period. 2nd century. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

Terracotta head with wreath ca. 600-480 B.C. Cypriot The head originally wore a large wreath that is now mostly broken off. In Cypriot limestone sculpture, representations of wreathed figuresusually maleare one of the most common types. They probably have to do with observances connected with fertility. This head is a fine example in terracotta; it would have been part of a full-length statue.. Terracotta head with wreath 241006

VESPASIANO - ITALICA SIGLO I. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN. TITUS.

Cabeza de hombre. Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona.

Bust of a Woman; Tarentum (Taras), South Italy; 350 - 250 B.C; Terracotta; 15.9 × 12.3 cm (6 1,4 × 4 13,16 in.)

Marble statues prospective in the most important museum of Venice

Marble portrait bust of a man A.D. 81-96 Roman The carefully styled hair on this young man resembles the short coiffure combed forward in undulating waves found on portraits of the emperor Domitian, who ruled from A.D. 81 to 96.. Marble portrait bust of a man. Roman. A.D. 81-96. Marble. Early Imperial, Flavian. Stone Sculpture

Marble statues prospective in the most important museum of Venice

Lazio Frosinone Veroli S. Andrea Apostolo, Cathedral32. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of metalwork objects housed in Treasury of S. Andrea Apostolo, including busts, reliquaries, crosses, polittico, boxes. Antiquities: relief sculpture; busts General Notes: Museum, which contains Treasury, is located in the last chapel of the right nave. Thirteen views of (non-metalwork) sculpture from Museum have been assigned numbers at end of Treasury sequence, but there are no negatives corresponding to these prints, nor is there authoritative evidence that these objects are housed in the Cathedral Museum. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque

Limestone head of a beardless male with a wreath of flower buds early 5th century B.C. Cypriot Male head with wreath of leaves.. Limestone head of a beardless male with a wreath of flower buds 242384

Fragment of a Togate Statue of Diocletian; about 295 - 300; Asia Minor marble, fine white; 35 cm (13 3,4 in.)

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). king of Macedonia. Head. Bronze. Portrait. 2nd C. Rome. Italy. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy.

BUSTO. Author: ALVAREZ CUBERO JOSE. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. VENTIMIGLIA Y MONCADA ROSALIA.

Anonymous / 'Trajan'. First half of the XVI century. White marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Roman marble bust of an unknown noble woman, 2nd century AD

"Bust of Faustina the Younger 1761-62 Marble by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Italian , 1716 - 1799"

Royal Head. Egypt, 2nd - 4th century CE. Sculpture. Limestone

The Emperor Augustus 63BC-14AD the first Roman emperor. He became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus through adoption by Caesar in his will (44BC) and later received the name Augustus in recognition of his services and position. At the time of Caesar's assassination Augustus was a student at Apollonia in Illyricum, but returned at once to Italy to claim his inheritance.

Head of Apollo, Provincial museum, Salerno, Campania, Italy

Nero (37-68), Roman emperor, marble portrait head

Augustus (63BC-14AD). Founder of the Roman Empire and first Emperor (27BC-14AD). Bust. Copy from the original preserved in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. Age of Augustus. Museum of the Ara Pacis.

Portrait of Emperor Tiberius (42 BC-37 AD). Copy from the original preserved in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Age of Augustus (27 BC-14 BC). Museum of the Ara Pacis, Rome, Italy.

Marble bust of Julius Caesar, marble bust of a Roman emperor or nobleman, against a dark background, Archaeological Museum, Archea Korinthos, Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe

Portrait Head. Unknown

'Portrait of Menander (Menandros)'. Italy, Late 18th century. Dimensions: height: 63,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Mask of Medusa (Masque de Méduse). Adolphe Braun; French, 1811-1877. Date: 1862. Dimensions: 47.4 × 36.3 cm (image/paper); 61.4 × 48.1 cm (mount). Albumen print. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Marble sculpture of Sant Pedro de Roda by Master of Cabestany. Romanic, 12th (Perelada).

Post Mythological - a man with sheep's horns - one of the so -called "Głąd Wawelski" by Sebastian Taurberach and the woodcarler Hans decorating the ceiling of the Wawel parliamentary hall in the years around 1540-1804/1807 and from 1927; Plater-Zyberk, Stefan (1891-1943); around 1917 (negative); around 1917-1927 (print) (1915-00-00-1927-00-00);

Statue of standing youth (Kouros). Marble, 6th century AD

Bronze head of Medusa by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1671) an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist. Dated 16th Century

Sculpture. Roman. Aphrodite or Venus of Arles. 360 BC. France.

Head with Melon Coiffure. Unknown

Portrait of Caracalla as a child, marble, 3rd century, Roman Hispania, Valladolid Museum, Community of Castile and Leon, Spain.

Livia. Wife of Augustus. Mother of Tiberius. Her first husband was Claudius. Died 29 AD. Italy.

Roman head, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

689. Archaïc head of Apollo, A. M. Athens , Sculpture, Antiquities. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Bust of a Woman. Unknown 2nd century B.C.

Bronze box mirror. Culture: Greek. Dimensions: diameter 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)H. of handle 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)H. of Head 5 7/16in. (13.8cm). Date: late 4th century B.C..In relief, head of PanThe goat-god Pan is always portrayed with the shaggy legs, ears, and horns of a goat. His face is often given a brutish cast, but here he appears as a beautiful youth whose tousled hair and dreamy expression are the only indications that he is an unpredictable woodland being. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Bronze bust of Antinous, from Odessus, Varna Region, Bulgaria. Thracian Civilization, 2nd Century.

Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and soldier. Artist: Unknown

Portrait of Nero Claudius Drusus (38-9 BC). Roman politician and militar commander. Father of the Emperor Claudius. Copy from the original preserved in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. Age of Tiberius (14-37 AD). Museum of The Ara Pacis, Rome. Italy.

Funerary Relief of Abuna, Daughter ofNabuna

'Head of Kore'. Cyprus, Late 6th - early 5th century BC. Dimensions: h. 12,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Fictile protome of Cybele, from commercial area of ancient Olynthos, building E

VESPASIANO 9 - 79. EMPERADOR ROMANO DEL 69 -79. BUSTO DE MARMOL PROCEDENTE DE ECIJA , SIGLO I. MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO DE SEVILLA. ARTE ROMANO.

Sculpture, Cortile Ottagono, Museo Pio-Clementine, Vatican Museums, Vatican, Rome, Italy, Europe

Young girl head with draped hat (dummy title). rock. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris. Young girl head wearing a turban hairstyle, adorned with a voluminous cabochon.

Head of 1st Roman emperor Augustus (63 BC-14 AD). From Italy. British Museum. London.

Tiberius (42 BC-37 BC). Roman emperor. Head. Bronze. Found in Tiermes, Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Augustus Caesar (Emperor 27BC-14AD) Marble bust from Fayum. Copy from 1st Century AD after an original from 30-17 BC. Denmark.

Musée de l'Acropole d'Athènes, 689, tête dite blonde vers 460 an. s. chr. , Sculpture, Antiquities. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Head of a man of front (plaster)

Lazio Viterbo Viterbo Museo Civico49. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of paintings (Middle Ages through 18th c.), frescoes, a tabernacle, coffin, sculpture reliefs, portal fragments, busts, sculpture, tapestry found in the Pinacoteca, Second floor gallery and Second floor cloister sequences. Antiquities: Many views of Etruscan and Roman fragments, sculpture, sarcophagi, pottery, masks, jewelry and other objects found in the Storeroom sequence (inventory numbers on back of prints), and the Cloister, Second floor Cloister, Valle Giulia, Sala Romana and Sala Etrusca sequences. General Notes: There are eight separate numerical sequences for this location. The cloister as an architectural structure, rather than museum site, is documented in the record and file for S. Maria della Verita, Cloister, all views of which are stored in Medieval core collection. Five views from the Museo Civico Second floor cloister sequence are stored in Medieval. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-

VESPASIAN, Titus Flavius Vespanius (9-79). Bust. Roman art. Early Empire. Sculpture on marble. ITALY. CAMPANIA. Naples. National Museum of Archaeology.

Head of Apollo sculpture, 2nd century, bronze, from Serdica, Bulgarian National Archaeological Museum, Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria, Europe.

Rome Altar of Peace of Augustus 33804

Bust of Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the Prussian General, 1755-1813, Wallhalla, Donaustauf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Limestone head of a beardless male with a diadem middle of the 6th century B.C. Cypriot Head of a man wearing a frontlet with rosettes.. Limestone head of a beardless male with a diadem 242413

Standing female figurine. Culture: Greek, Attic . Dimensions: H. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm). Date: Early 5th century B.C..The figurine is mold-made and solid. The back is mold-made, showing the principal contours of the body and elements of the drapery. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Head of the Roman emperor Caligula, 1st century. Artist: Unknown

Marble head of Roman Emperor Balbinus (Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus, 165-238)

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