Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Roman Persons

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Augustus
27 BC - AD 14
marble
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Tiberius
AD 20
marble
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Claudia Octavia
AD 50-70
marble
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Agrippina the Younger
AD 40 (head) on 18th-century body
marble
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Agrippina the Younger
AD 50-75 (head) on 18th-century body
marble and alabaster
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Antonia the Younger
AD 37-42 (head) on 16th-century mount
carved chalcedony and silver-gilt
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Antonia the Younger
AD 37-42 (head) on 16th-century mount
carved chalcedony and silver-gilt
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Nero
AD 50 (head) on 2nd-century AD body
marble
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Nero
AD 55 (head) on 16th-century body
marble
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Antoninus Pius
AD 150 (head) on 16th-century body
marble-
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of Antoninus Pius
AD 150
marble (body is original)
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Marcus Aurelius
2nd century AD
bronze
(excavated in Britain)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of a Woman
AD 175-200
marble
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Ancient Roman Culture
Bust of a Woman
AD 390 (head) on 17th-century body
marble
Musei Capitolini, Rome

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of a Man
1st century AD
marble
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of a Man
1st century AD
marble
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

The Spirit Medium

Poetry, music, I have loved, and yet
Because of those new dead
That come into my soul and escape
Confusion of the bed,
Or those begotten or unbegotten
Perning in a band,
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.

Or those begotten or unbegotten.
For I would not recall
Some that being unbegotten
Are not individual,
But copy some one action
Moulding it of dust or sand,
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with dirty hand.

An old ghost's thoughts are lightning
To follow is to die;
Poetry and music I have banished,
But the stupidity
Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
Makes no demand.
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.

– W.B. Yeats (1938)