Photographed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.

Ca. 1st Century BC Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Amato dall’esercito, dal Senato e dal popolo. A 1900 anni dalla sua morte, Roma celebra Traiano - l’Imperatore che portò l’Impero alla sua massima estensione - con una mostra ospitata dai Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali fino al 16 settembre 2018

Ancient Roman gold amulet in the shape of a duck, dated to the 1st century BCE. Source: e-tiquities.

A couple of ancient giants are extending their American debut by two years.

Until 1919, collection of the 2nd Lord Swansea, Singleton Abbey, Swansea; October 15, 1919, sold through Knight, Frank & Rutley, Swansea; [until 1920, with Yanakopoulos, Paris]; acquired in 1920, purchased from Yanakopoulos

Marble. Rome, 37—41 CE.

Head of Discus Thrower. copy after a Greek original. middle Imperial Period. Roman. marble. http;//hadrian6.tumblr.com

Das Museum Chiaramonti wurde von Pius VII. Chiaramonti (1800-1823) in Auftrag gegeben. Es sollte Statuen und römische Büsten beherbergen und wurde von dem klassizistischen Bildhauer Antonio Canova im Jahre 1807 eingerichtet. In der langen Galerie stehen etwa 1.000 antike Skulpturen aller Art, die keine grosse Kostbarkeiten darstellen. Das Studium der antik-römischen Damenfrisuren ist jedoch recht amüsant.

Marble, Antonine, ca 161-169 C.E. This bust was discovered in an imperial villa at Acqua Traversa near Rome in 1674. It forms part of a cache of marbles that included thirteen portraits of the Antonine emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, another of which is also displayed here. The portraits are of the highest quality, as befits their setting, but it is hard to understand why so many, some of which are virtually identical, were found together. This portrait exemplifies Marcus…

A Marble Portrait Head of the Emperor Claudius, Roman imperial, late in the reign of Claudius, circa A.D. 50-5

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Il museo pubblico più antico del mondo, fondato nel 1471 da Sisto IV con la donazione al popolo romano dei grandi bronzi lateranensi, si articola nei due edifici che insieme al Palazzo Senatorio delimitano la piazza del Campidoglio, il Palazzo dei Conservatori e il Palazzo Nuovo.

Marble.

White coarse-grained marble. The reign of Augustus (27 BCE — 14 CE). H. 29 cm.