aug 4, 75 BC - Head of a Roman Patrician

Description:

Date: 75 BCE ~ 50 BCE

Artist: unkown

Medium: Marble

Location: Museo Torlonia, Rome

Function:
- to show that with age comes wisdom
- admiration of age
- depiction of a patrician
- Republican Roman

Form:
- realism of the portrayal shows influence of Greek Hellenistic art; Etruscan art
- bulldog like features
- features may have been exaggerated

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