THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Portraiture | Female portrait | Gems
1. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo with portrait busts of an Imperial Julio-Claudian couple.
White on brown layered sardonyx.
Mid-1st century CE.
Inv. No. 98.754.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
2. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Bust of a woman (Agrippina Minor or Drusilla?).
First half of 1st cent. CE (with traces of reworking).
Sardonyx, gold.
Inv. No. 14556.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
3. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Busts of Tiberius and Livia.
Chalcedony, agate, gold.
14—29 CE.
Inv. No. 14533.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
4. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Livia portrayed as Ceres.
Sardonyx, gold.
20—29 CE.
Inv. No. 14549.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
5. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Agrippina the Younger.
Sardonyx.
Ca. 57—59 CE.
Inv. No. 1872,0604.1992.
London, British Museum.
6. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Portrait of Julia Drusilla, Julia Livilla or Agrippina Minor.
Chalcedony.
37—39 CE.
Inv. No. 1907,0415.1.
London, British Museum.
7. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Portrait of Julia Drusilla, Julia Livilla or Agrippina Minor.
Chalcedony.
37—39 CE.
Inv. No. 1907,0415.1.
London, British Museum.
8. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Cameo “Two Agrippinae represented as Minervae”.
Sardonyx.
Rome, 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. Camee. 226.
Paris, National Library of France, Cabinet of Medals.
9. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Portrait of a noble lady. (Agrippina the Elder or Antonia the Younger?).
Intaglio.
Age of the early empire.
Inv. No. Med 6764.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Caffarelli-Clementino, Capitoline Coin Cabinet.
10. GLYPTICS. Rome.
August, Livia and Nero.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12537 / Ж 149.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
11. GLYPTICS. Rome.
August, Livia and Nero.
Sardonyx.
Mid-1st century.
Reworked twice: in the fifties of the 3rd century and during the Renaissance period.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12537 / Ж 149.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
12. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Onyx.
Early 1st century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12542 / Ж 154.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
13. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Sardonyx.
Early 1st century. Reworked in the 18th century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12655 / Ж. 268.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
14. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12655 / Ж. 268.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
15. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Sardonyx.
Rome. Early 1st century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12655 / Ж. 268.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
16. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Agrippina the Younger.
Three-layered sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12722 / Ж 335.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
17. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Agrippina the Younger, the daughter of Germanicus.
Sardonyx.
Early 1st century.
Inv. Nos. ГР-12722 / Ж 335.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
18. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Sardonyx.
Early 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 267.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
19. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Livia.
Sardonyx.
Rome. 1st century.
Inv. No. Ж 267.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
20. GLYPTICS. Rome.
“Gemma Claudia”.
Five-layered onyx; setting: gold band.
Ca. 49 CE.
Inv. No. IXa 63.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.