Portrait head of Nero
Plaster cast.Original: marble, 55—68 CE.
Height 41 cm. Inv. No. MCR 317.Rome, Museum of Roman CivilizationPhoto by Olga Lyubimova
Portrait head of Nero.
Plaster cast.
Original: marble, 55—68 CE.
Height 41 cm.
Original: marble, 55—68 CE.
Height 41 cm.
Inv. No. MCR 317.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization
(Roma, Museo della civiltà romana).
Origin:
Original is found in Olbia, Italy, in 1902; now in the National archaeological museum, Cagliari, Italy (inv. no. 35533).
Description:
p.125 135. — Testa imperiale romana appartenente ad un membro della famiglia Giulia. Olbia.Questa bella testa fu rinvenuta negli scavi per le fondazioni dell’edificio per le Scuole Comunali di Terranova Pausania, nel 1902. (Tav. XLVI fig. 77).
A. Taramelli
p.114 Coin Type III constitutes a quite explicit and individualized portrait and is the first to permit unquestionable identification of a number of sculptured replicas as Nero. An unusually precise comparison can be made between the coin images (cf. especially pl. 17, figs. 6 and 7) and the portrait head from Olbia in the Museo Nazionale, Cagliari p.115 Inv. 35533 (pl. 21, figs. 33, 34)6, and a head in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua (pl. 22, figs. 35, 36)7. These sculptures serve in turn to confirm the attribution to Nero of a third replica, a veiled head in the Terme Museum, Rome (pl. 23, figs. 37, 38)8, whose identity has sometimes been doubted.
6Cagliari, Museo Nazionale. Inv. 35533. Head worked for insertion in a statue. From Olbia. Marble, H. where visible ca. 0.42 m. Part of the right ear restored; features otherwise intact. The bust below the neck is modern. Bandinelli, 157, no. 1, pl. 32; Poulsen, Nero, 120, no. 1, figs. 7, 8; Charbonneaux, 37 ff. 7Mantua, Palazzo Ducale. Head mounted on a later antique bust. From the Gonzaga collections at Sabbioneta. Marble, H. of head 0.24 m. Nose, parts of left ear, lips and chin restored. Bernoulli, 173, no. 17, pp. 206, 307, 318; A. Levi, Sculture Greche e Romane del Palazzo Ducale di Mantova (Rome 1931) 58, no. 111, pl. 64, b; Bandinelli, 159, no. 7; Poulsen, Nero 120, no. 6. 8Rome, Terme Museum. Inv. 616. Velate head from a statue. Found on the Palatine. Marble, H. 0.43 m. Parts of nose, lips, edges of toga missing. Poulsen, Nero, 120, no. 9; Poulsen, 294 ff.; B. M. Felletti Maj, Museo Nazionale Romano, I Ritratti (Rome 1953) 65, no. 108; Charbonneaux, 37 ff.; Helbig4, III, 1969, no. 2301.U. W. Hiesinger
Literature:
Taramelli A. Guida del Museo nazionale di Cagliari.Cagliari, 1914. P. 125, № 135. Tav. XLVI, fig. 77.
Bianchi Bandinelli R. Per l’iconografia di Germanico // MDAIR. Bd. 47. 1932. P. 157, № 1, Taf. 32
Poulsen V. Nero, Britannicus and Others // Acta archaeologica. Vol. 22. 1951. P. 120, no. 1, figs. 7, 8
Charbonneaux M.J. Un Nouveau Portrait de Néron // Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France. N.S. T. 3. 1954. P. 37 ff.
Hiesinger U. W. The Portraits of Nero // AJA. Vol. 79. 197. P. 114 f. Pl. 21. Fig. 33—34.
Bergmann M., Zanker P. Damnatio memoriae. Umgearbeitete Nero- und Domitiansporträts. Zur Ikonographie der flavischen Kaiser und des Nerva // JdI. Bd. 96. 1981. S. 322. Nr. a.
Bianchi Bandinelli R. Per l’iconografia di Germanico // MDAIR. Bd. 47. 1932. P. 157, № 1, Taf. 32
Poulsen V. Nero, Britannicus and Others // Acta archaeologica. Vol. 22. 1951. P. 120, no. 1, figs. 7, 8
Charbonneaux M.J. Un Nouveau Portrait de Néron // Mémoires de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France. N.S. T. 3. 1954. P. 37 ff.
Hiesinger U. W. The Portraits of Nero // AJA. Vol. 79. 197. P. 114 f. Pl. 21. Fig. 33—
Bergmann M., Zanker P. Damnatio memoriae. Umgearbeitete Nero- und Domitiansporträts. Zur Ikonographie der flavischen Kaiser und des Nerva // JdI. Bd. 96. 1981. S. 322. Nr. a.
Credits:
(сс) 2009. Photo: Olga Lyubimova (CC BY-SA 4.0).
© Text: Taramelli A. Guida del Museo nazionale di Cagliari.Cagliari, 1914. P. 125, № 135.
© Text: Hiesinger U. W. The Portraits of Nero // AJA. Vol. 79. 197. P. 114 f. Pl. 21. Fig. 33—34.
© Text: Arachne.
© Text: Taramelli A. Guida del Museo nazionale di Cagliari.Cagliari, 1914. P. 125, № 135.
© Text: Hiesinger U. W. The Portraits of Nero // AJA. Vol. 79. 197. P. 114 f. Pl. 21. Fig. 33—34.
© Text: Arachne.
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