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The present head, to which the bust was added in the eighteenth century, probably belonged to one of the statues of captured Dacians (from Dacia, the region to the West of the Black Sea) in Trajan’s F [+]
Numerous portraits of Constantine of this type were produced to mark his victory over Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 A. D. Coins of the period depict him as invictus (unconquerab [+]
This portrait of Hadrian (117-138 AD) does not follow a specific classical model, freely interpreting elements such as the curls of his hair and his expression. It may have belonged to Queen Christina [+]
This poorly preserved Roman copy of a Greek original from around 290 b.c.e. belongs to a rather irregular group of five Roman copies of a scupture baselessly identified with Lycurgus of Sparta. It pre [+]
Busto de un personaje calvo, con barba, envuelto en un manto que deja al descubierto gran parte del pecho. Copia del pseudo Crisipo (Crisippo), el gran filósofo estoico del siglo III a.C. El estilo no [+]
The piece belongs to a group of four busts of Ethiopians purchased for the Buen Retiro Palace in 1678 by Charles II. Their inspiration comes from models by the French sculptor Nicolas Cordier, the cre [+]
El Emperador viste arnés y paludamento y lleva sobre el peto, en relieve, la cabeza de Gorgona. La basa es de jaspe morado claro. Está deteriorado por haber permanecido expuesto al aire libre. Present [+]
The head of this young man with soft features is made of black marble with a highly polished face, while the bust is of white alabaster. Belonging to a production modelled on works by Nicolas Cordier [+]
Tuccia was one of the virgins at the temple of Vesta, goddess of fire. Accused of adultery, she proved her innocence by carrying water in a sieve without spilling a drop. This marble head is closely b [+]
This head carved from bigio morato marble is broken into two parts, vertically. Its restoration required several additions, both to finish various curls and to reconstruct the top of the head, where a [+]
Retrato de un personaje de la época republicana. Imita el prototipo y la forma del busto de dicha época pero el estilo en que se ha realizado está mucho más simplificado, es más frío y académico que l [+]
Menander (Athens, 342-293 B.C.) has not been treated fairly by posterity, as almost all the one hundred plays he wrote have been lost. They are known to us, however, through the Roman playwright Plaut [+]
Antinous (c. 105-130AD), the Emperor Hadrian’s favourite, was deified with the name of Osiris to commemorate his death in the Nile and he was venerated as a god under the Roman Empire. By the fifteent [+]
Busto de Cristo mayor que el natural, con la cabeza vuelta hacia la derecha del espectador y los ojos bajos. El rostro tiene forma oval, con labios muy finos, barba partida y cabello largo y rizado qu [+]
Hercules, who defeated the Nemean lion in his first Labour, used his impregnable crocodile’s skin as a cuirass and a lion’s head as a helmet. Alexander the Great was represented in a similar manner fo [+]
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