Classical Sculpture Portraits

Busts of notable historical figures and philosophers from ancient Greece, crafted in marble, highlighting their unique features and classical style.

Europe, Greece. Eratoshenes Historian. Librarian of Alexandria Library. 270-194BC.

Greek general (stratetos). Roman work after original of about 400 BC. Bust. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Marble portrait of the Greek lyric poet Anacreon of Teos

Europe, Greece. Eratoshenes Historian. Librarian of Alexandria Library. 270-194BC.

BUSTO DE DEMOCRITO FUNDADOR DE LA FILOSOFIA TOMISTA. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

Colossal torso of Jupiter, by copy from Lisippo, 1st Century, Greek marble, full relief. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum. Detail. Statue torso man face god Jupiter/Zeus Optimus Maximus beard

Colossal Head. Attributed to Baccio Bandinelli (Italy, Florence, 1493-1560). Italy, Florence, circa 1560. Sculpture. Marble

Emperor Septimius Severus (146-211). Severan dynasty. Bust, c. 204 AD. Marble. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Hermes stone carving statue in Archaeological Museum of Delos, Delos, Mykonos, Greece

Thucydides or Theophrastus (). Historian or philosopher. 1st century AD. Lunense marble. Musei Reali. Archaelogical Museum. Turin.

Italy Rome,statue detail at The Capitol

Emperor Commodus, 180-192 AD, Roman.

'Head of Philoctetes'. Roman copy after the Greek original of the first half of the 5th century BC. Ancient Rome, 2nd century. Dimensions: h. 31 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Roman Sculptor / 'The Athenian General Miltiades'. Ca. 100. Pentelic marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España. Author: TALLER ROMANO.

The tragic poet Sophocles. Great writer,(495-406 BC.) Marble. Roman copy of a Greek original, C. 270 BC.

Marble head of Asclepius or Zeus

Septimius Severus (145-211 AD) Roman Emperor from 193 to 211 AD. Bust after 195 AD. Marble.

Marble bust of an unidentified Greek poet. Dated 4th Century B.C.

Greek mythology. Dionysus. God of wine. Roman statue. 2nd century AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius. Roman, ca. A.D. 138161

Socrates (469-399 BC). Classical Greek philosopher. Roman copy of Greek original, 380-360 BC. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.

Philosopher Aristotle statue, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Teacher to Alexander Great carved 325 to 300 BC

Marble head of Antoninus Pius (86-161)

Roman Sculptor / 'Herm'. First half of the I century. White marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España. Author: TALLER ROMANO.

Marble bust of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 a.d.), detail of face, from Lamunia

Marble portrait bust from Roman Britain. Dated 2nd Century

Fictile bust of Zeus, from Erice, Sicily, Italy. Magna Graecia civilization, 5th century BC.

Bust of Aeschylus. 5th c. BC. Greek art. Sculpture on marble. ITALY. LAZIO. Rome. Capitoline Museums.

HOMER (9th century BC). Greek writer. Roman copy from a Hellenistic Greek original. Hellenistic art. Sculpture on marble. ITALY. CAMPANIA. Naples. National Museum of Archaeology.

Statue of a bearded Hercules. Roman. Flavian period. 68-98 AD. Museum Metropolitan of Art. NY. USA.

Herm of Hephaestus. Vatican Museums.

Marble head of a man, Perge, 2nd c. Archaeological Museum, Antalya, Turkey, Antalya, Turkey, Asia

Roman marble bust of an unknown nobleman, 2nd century AD

Eratosthenes. Greek Historian. Librarian of Alexandria Library. 270-194 BC.

Head of a seer (N), from the east pediment (sculpture) of the temple of Zeus, Olympia. Sometimes called the Severe Style, which is exemplified in the sculptures for the Temple.

Greek civilization, Head of Zeus, From Egina, Greece

The Stoic Philosopher Zeno of Citium (334-262 BC.) Marble. Roman copy of a greek original.

Bust of the blind poet Homer In the Western classical tradition, Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. When he lived is unknown but Herodotus believes it to be around 850 BC.

Imperial Roman era. Times of the Emperor Hadrian. 2nd century. Sculpture of a river god Arno (or Tigris) reclining with a jug on rocks a stream. Vatican Museums. Octogonal courtyard. Vatican city.

Marble portrait of the Athenian orator Demosthenes (384-322 BCE)

'Bust-Herma: Portrait of Euripides'. Italy, Late 18th century. Dimensions: height: 49,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Demosthenes (384-322 BC) Athenian orator and statesman. Portrait bust

Panyassis of Halicarnassus (5th century BC). Greek poet. Herm. Marble. Great peristyle. Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Roman Art. Imperial Period. Demosthenes (384-322 b.C). Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. Marble head (2nd century b.C.). Copy of an original by Polyeuktos. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.

Marble bust of Hermes, 5th Century B.C.

Marble head of a philosopher, Roman, Imperial period, 1st or 2nd century. Copy of a Greek statue of the last quarter of the 3rd century B.C.

'St Peter the Apostle'. Italy, 17th century. Dimensions: height: 48,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Bust of the God Serapis, Greco-Egyptian, Marble, Roman work, 1st Century AD

Bust of the German Emperor Otto the Great, 912-973, Wallhalla, Donaustauf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Marble head of Hermes, from Pergamon, Turkey

Head of a Man, perhaps Phokion. Unknown

Close up of a male statue, modern copy of a Greek original. Good for museum concepts.

Greek art. Hellenistic period. 160 B.C. Poseidon from the Pergamon Altar terrasse. Marble. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Fernand Calmettes bust". Patinated plaster. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Bust, French painter, pattero patina, face

Boxer at Rest. Hellenistic Greek Sculpture. C. 330 BC. Sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing caestus. National Museum of Rome. Massimo Palace. Italy. Rome.

Lucius Verus Augustus. (130-169). Roman Emperor (161-169). Fragmentary roman marble bust. Antonine period. It comes from a villa in Acqua Traversa (near Rome). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.

Septimius Severus (145-211), also known as Severus. Roman Emperor from 193-211. Born in Leptis Manga, province of Africa. Dynasty, Severan.

Male head male head copyright: xzoonar.com/tolox 22568867

Marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius ca. A.D. 138-161 Roman Antoninus Pius was adopted by Hadrian as his successor when he was already fifty-one years old. His portraits thus represent him as a mature man in a sober but refined style that consciously echoes the imperial imagery adopted by Hadrian. At the beginning of his reign in A.D. 138, he had to impel a reluctant Senate to award Hadrian divine honors, and it is probably for this reason that he himself was given the title of Pius. Unlike his two immediate predecessors, Trajan and Hadrian, Antoninus did not embark on any major wars or travel widely through the Empire. Indeed, he was in effect the last emperor to spend most of his reign in the city of Rome itself. Regarded as a just and diligent administrator, Antoninus presided over the Empire at the height of its powera time that the historian Edward Gibbon later famously referred to as the period when “the condition of the human race was most happy and most prosperous.” L

Marble head of a philosopher from Athens, Antonine period. From a statue or a bust which was set up most probably in the ground of an Athenian philosophical school. The work harks back to a creation of the last quarter of the 4th century BC.

Boxer at Rest. Hellenistic Greek Sculpture. C. 330 BC. Sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing caestus. National Museum of Rome. Massimo Palace. Italy. Rome.

Roman art. Imperial era. Head of a man with a Priest's cap. About 120 AD.

Antoninus Pius (86 - 161 AD). Known as Antoninus. Roman Emperor from 138-161. Nerva-Antonine dynasty and the Aurelii. Bust. Marble. Museum Metropolitan of Art. NY. USA.

Statue of Jupiter (Marbury Hall Zeus); Unknown; 1st century; Marble; Object: H: 207 x W: 100 x D: 62.5 cm (81 1/2 x 39 3/8 x 24 5/8 in.)

Alabaster bust of Serapis, from Tell Atub

Antoninus Pius (86-161 AD). (Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Arrius Antoninus). Roman Emperor from 138-161AD). Imperial Portrait. The Stoa of Attalos (Atallus). Museum. Athenian Agora. Athens, Greece.

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Socrates (470-399 BC). Athenian philosopher. Detail of the Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca. Ancient Roman statue from the first half of the 3rd century AD. Marble. Portraits are coupled in double herm by later roman copyst. Neues Museum (New Museum). Berlin, Germany.

Marble Bust of Leonardo da Vinci, by Filippo Albacini, 1813, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy

Greece Attica Athens, Carved bearded head thought to be that of Zeus

Portrait of a Greek Philosopher. Unknown

Bronze statue, Israel National Museum, in Jerusalem, Israel

Lucius Verus (130-169). Co-emperor of Rome. Neva-Antonine. Lucius Verus mounted on an unrelated cuirassed statue. National Arhaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.

Anonymous / 'Portrait of the Writer, Xenophon'. II century. White marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Antoninus Pius (86 AD-161 AD) known as Antoninus. Roman emperor form 138-161. Nerva-Antonine dynasty. Bust. Marble. The Third quarter of 2nd century AD. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Bust of Zeus Greek Art Parma, Italy

CARACALLA EMPERADOR ROMANO. Location: MUSEO CAPITOLINO. Rome. ITALIA.

NAPLES, ITALY, MAY 06, 2022, Statue of the Roman God of the Nile, Southern Italy

Belisarius; Jean-Baptiste Stouf (French, 1752 - 1826); about 1785 - 1791; Marble; 60 x 55 x 30 cm, 59.8748 kg (23 5,8 x 21 5,8 x 11 13,16 in., 132 lb.); 2005.19

'Satyr'. Italy, Second half of the 17th century (). Dimensions: height: 46,0 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Hadrian (76-138 AD). Roman emperor. Nervan-Antonine dynasty. Bronze bust. Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Thucydides (460-400 BC). Athenian historian and general. Marble herm, 2nd cent. AD, copy of a Greek work, Naples Archeology Museum, Italy.

Statue in front of Ludwigsburg Palace, Flourishing Baroque, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Head of a Bearded Satyr. Unknown

Caracalla, busto de mármol. Museum: Capitoline Museum, Roma, ITALIA. MARCO AURELIO CARACALA.

Statues of Socrates and Athena outside Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece,

Europe, Lower Austria, Wachau, melk, schloss schallaburg grosser arkadenhof

Close up of a male statue, modern copy of a Greek original. Good for museum concepts.

Plato, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842.

Ancient bust Emperor Hadrian outside Seville, Andalusia, Spain. Hadrian was from Italica, first Roman settlement in Spain and outside of Italy.

Ludovico Lombardo, The Emperor Hadrian, c 1550 The Emperor Hadrian

Plato, vintage engraving. Plato, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10660377

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Detail of River-god Ganges, Piazza Navona, Rome, Unesco World Heritage Site, Latium, Italy, Europe

Τὸν πέρι μοῦσ ἐφίλησε, δίδου δ᾽ ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε ὀφθαλμῶν μὲν ἄμερσε, δίδου δ᾽ ἡδεῖαν ἀοιδήν , Sculpture, Antiquities, Poets, Homer. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Marble statues of gods and emperors of antiquity in the Museum of Antiquities of Antalya, Turkey. Antalya, Turkey - May 20, 2019: Marble statues of gods and emperors of antiquity in the Museum of Antiquities of Antalya, Turkey. Copyright: xZoonar.com/LeonidxEremeychukx 14006531

Close-up of Nettuno Statue, Fountain of Neptune, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy

Portrait of Thespis (); Roman Empire; 1st-2nd century A.D; Hauran Basalt; 29.5 cm (11 5,8 in.)

GREECE, Ionian Islands, KEFALONIA, Kokolata: Greek Lawn Ornament Statue Showplace, Statue of Atlas

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). French sculptor. The Man with the Broken Nose, 1875. Marble carved by Leon Fourquet during the winter of 1874-1875. Rodin Museum. Paris. France.

Pythagoras of Samos (570 BC-495 BC). Ionic Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Portrait. Watercolor.

Abruzzo L'Aquila Barete S. Paolo0. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Stoups made from Romanesque column capitals. Post-medieval: Frescos of the local school; sculpture. 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.

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