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Greek Intellectual

150 - 160. White marble.
Not on display

The Roman portrait from the era of the Emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 A. D.), with its meticulous curly hairstyle, recalls the much earlier appearance of Greek poets and philosophers. Greek teachers, who were conveyors of science and Greek knowledge, enjoyed great esteem among the Roman high class. The cultivated Emperor Marcus Aurelius admired Greek culture and wrote aphorisms in Greek. This man could be one of the conceited teachers of rhetoric at whom Lucian of Samosata used to scoff.

Series

Colección José Nicolás de Azara

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150 160 Bust-length sculpture Sculpted White marble

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Inventory number
E000134
Author
Anonymous
Title
Greek Intellectual
Date
150 - 160
Technique
Sculpted
Medium
White marble
Dimension
Height: 50 cm; Width: 33 cm; Depth: 23 cm; Weight: 39.199997 Kg
Series
Colección José Nicolás de Azara
Provenance
Collection of José Nicolás de Azara, who gave to Carlos IV; Royal Collection
Entry date
1824

Bibliography +

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Ricard, Robert, Marbres Antiques du Musée du Prado à Madrid, Féret & Fils, Burdeos, 1923, pp. 94.

Hekler, A, Philosophen- und Gelehrtenbildnisse der mittleren Kaiserzeit, Die Antike. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur des Klassischen Altertums, 16, 1940, pp. 115 ss.

Harrison, E. B, The Athenian Agora, I, The Americal School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, New Jersey, 1953, pp. 38 ss., n.º 28, lám. 19.

Blanco Freijeiro, Antonio, Catálogo de la escultura. Museo del Prado, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 1957, pp. 141.

Lattanzi, Elena, I ritratti dei cosmeti nel Museo nazionale di Atene, L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, 1968, pp. 67 ss.

Shear, T. L, The Athenian Agora: Excavations of 1970, Hesperia. Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athenas, 40, 1971, pp. 274, lám. 59 a.

Voutiras, E, Griechische Porträts des 5. und frühen 4. Jhs., Bonn, 1980, pp. 168 ss., figs. 111-113, 118.

Blanco, Antonio; Lorente, Manuel, Catálogo de la escultura. Museo del Prado (2ª ed.), Patronato Nacional de Museos, Madrid, 1981, pp. nº134.

Fittschen, Klaus; Zanker, Paul, Katalog der Römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, Philipp Von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 1983-1985, pp. n.º 59, lám. 68.

Wojcik, Maria Rita, La Villa dei Papiri ad Ercolano contributo alla riconstruzione dell'ideologia della nobillitas tardorepublicano, L'Erma di Bretchsneider, Roma, 1986, pp. 67 s., n.º B13, lám. 42.

Meyer, H, Antinoos. Die archäologischen Denkmäler unter Einbeziehung des numismatischen und epigraphischen Materials sowie der literarischen Nachrichten, Münich, 1991, pp. 225 ss., láms. 138, 139.

Schröder, Stephan F, Catálogo de la escultura clásica: Museo del Prado I, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 1993, pp. 200-202 nº55.

Elvira Barba, Miguel Angel, 'Winckelmann, Mengs y las colecciones escultóricas de Azara.' En:, El legado de Johann Joachim Winckelmann en España. Actas congreso internacional 20-21 Oct.2011, 2014, pp. 121-136 [131].

Inscriptions +

134.
 Inscribed in black. Plinth

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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