Unknown Roman. (Gaius Julius Caesar?)
White marble. Middle of the 1st century BCE.Total height 0.52 m. Height of head 0.32 m. Acireale, Zelantea Library
Unknown Roman. (Gaius Julius Caesar?)
White marble. Middle of the 1st century BCE.
Total height 0.52 m. Height of head 0.32 m.
Total height 0.52 m. Height of head 0.32 m.
Acireale, Zelantea Library.
Origin:
Found in 1676 near Acireale together with vases, coins and a piece of marble with the inscription C. IVL. CAESAR, which disappeared.
Description:
In 1933 Erich Boehringer wrote a whole book to publish a portrait which he named Ceasar. (...) The bust is ancient, perhaps an Egyptian work; however, it is not Caesar, bua a nameless portrait from the middle of the first century B.C.
Literature:
E. Boehringer, Der Caesar von Acireale (Stuttgart, 1933), pl. 1—7.
F. Johansen, «Antichi ritratti di C. Giulio Cesare nella scultura», Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 4 (Copenhagen, 1967), p. 52.
P. Zanker, «Das Bildnis des M. Holconius Rufus» AA, 1981, p. 357, n. 27.
F. Johansen, «Antichi ritratti di C. Giulio Cesare nella scultura», Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 4 (Copenhagen, 1967), p. 52.
P. Zanker, «Das Bildnis des M. Holconius Rufus» AA, 1981, p. 357, n. 27.
Credits:
© 1987. Photo, text: Johansen F. S. «Portraits in Marble of Gaius Julius Caesar: a Review». Ancient Portraits in the J. Paul Getti Museum. Vol I. 1987, p. 33, 38.
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