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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