Gaius Julius Caesar. Profile
White large-grained marble from Asia Minor.
Total height: 0,53 m; height of the head: 0,29 m.
Inv. No. 73.AA.46.Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu

Gaius Julius Caesar. Profile.

White large-grained marble from Asia Minor.
Total height: 0,53 m; height of the head: 0,29 m.
Inv. No. 73.AA.46.

Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu.

Origin:
In 1973 the Getty Museum acquired a marble portrait from Asia Minor. (...) It was brought to Switzerland from the Istanbul bazaar.
Literature:
Burlington Magazine (june 1973), fig. 14.
J. Frel, «Caesar», GettyMusJ 5 (1977), fig. 2—5.
E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, in Greece and Italy in the Classical World, Acta of the XI. International Congress of Classical Archaeology (London, 1979), p. 978.
J. Inan и E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, Römische und Frühbyzantinische Porträtplastik aus der Türkei (Mainz, 1979), p. 53, No. 1, pl. 1.
J. Frel, Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum, ex. cat. (Tulsa Oklahoma, Philbrook Art Center, и Malibu, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1981).
J. Meischinger, BonnJbb 181 (1981), p. 144.
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. 40.
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