On-line gallery
- Reference number
- E00166
- Author
- Roman workshop
- Title
- Deified Emperor
- Chronology
- Ca. 50 A.D.; 17th century
- Technique
- Sculpted
- Marble
- Measures
- 218 cm x 105 cm x 80 cm
- School
- Ancient Art
- Theme
- Portrait
- On display
- Yes
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
This sculpture consists of a seventeenth-century head of Augustus and a torso of Augustus or Tiberius dating from the beginning of the first century A.D. This type of iconography, with a body based on the art of Polycletus (fifth century B.C.) and clothed in the traditional Roman toga, was used to represent emperors deified after death.
