Saturday, November 16, 2024

Roman Heads

Ancient Roman Culture
Colossal Head of Diana
125 BC
marble
Penn Museum, Philadelphia

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Augustus
early 1st century AD
bronze
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

Ancient Roman Culture
Colossal Head of Asclepius
AD 150-200
marble
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Thucydides
2nd-1st century BC
marble
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of a Goddess
2nd century AD
marble
Museo Nacionale de Arte Romano, Mérida

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of a Youth
1st century AD
bronze
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Apollo
1st-2nd century AD
marble
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Venus
1st-2nd century AD
marble
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Dionysus
1st century BC - 1st century AD
marble
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of a Woman
50 BC
marble
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of a Young Man
AD 250-275
bronze
Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Aeschylus
1st century AD
marble
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of a Youth
AD 40-170
marble
Dallas Museum of Art

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Horse
200 BC
marble
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Medusa
1st century BC - 1st century AD
carved wooden relief
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Ancient Roman Culture
Head of Medusa
2nd-3rd century AD
mosaic panel
Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona

Brennende Liebe

     – 1904

Dearest love: The roses are in bloom again,
cream and rose, to either side of the brick walk.
I pass among them with my white umbrella
as the sun beats down upon the oval plots like pools
in the grass, willows and the grove
of statuary. So the days go by. Fine days
I take my tea beneath the elm
half turned, as though you were beside me saying
Flowers that could take your breath away . . .
And always on the tray
a rose, and always the sun branded on the river
and the men in summer suits, in linen, and the girls,
their skirts circled in shadow . . . Last night
I dreamed that you did not return.
Today is fair. The little maid filled a silver bowl
shaped like a swan with roses for my bedside,
with the dark red they call Brennende Liebe,
which I find so beautiful.

– Louise Glück (1975)