Unknown Roman. (Gaius Julius Caesar?)
White marble.Ca. 300 CE.
Height 0.32 m. Private collection
Unknown Roman. (Gaius Julius Caesar?)
White marble.
Ca. 300 CE.
Height 0.32 m.
Ca. 300 CE.
Height 0.32 m.
Private collection.
Description:
In 1979 Helga von Heintze published a portrait of a man with drilled eyes that she dates to circa A.D. 300. I think that the portrait is a fake. Even if it should happen to be ancient, it has nothing to do with the iconography of Caesar.
Literature:
H. von Heintze, «Ein spätantikes Bildnis Caesars», in G. Kopcke and M. Moore, ed., Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology: A Tribute to Peter H. von Blanckenhagen (Locust Valley, N. Y., 1979), p. 291ff., pl. 79—80.
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. 39.
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