Monday, June 29, 2026

Roman Marbles

Roman Empire
Bust of Philosopher
AD 100-125
marble
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Head of Woman
AD 220-260
marble
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

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Herm of Bearded Deity
2nd century AD
marble
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Bough of Plane Tree
1st century AD
marble relief fragment
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Dionysus
1st century AD
marble relief
(imitating archaic style)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Hercules stealing Tripod from Apollo's Temple,
with Apollo resisting

20 BC-AD 20
marble fragment of fountain
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Procession of Sacred Objects
AD 25-50
marble relief
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

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Legionary from Triumphal Arch
AD 100
marble relief 
Antikensammlung,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Apoxyomenos
AD 130-150
marble
(forearms and vase added, 16th century)
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

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Artemis
2nd century AD
marble, heavily restored
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Athena
2nd-3rd century AD
marble, heavily restored
Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

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Muse
2nd century AD
marble
(antique torso with modern head and limbs)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Muse
AD 140-150
marble
(heavily restored, with modern head)
Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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Torso of Hercules
AD 130-150
marble
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

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Torso of Man wearing Chiton and Cloak
AD 130-140
marble
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

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Vase
(with relief figures of Artemis and others)
30-20 BC
marble
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Charlotte's attitude had in short its moments of flowering into pretty excesses of civility, self-effacements in the presence of others, sudden little formalisms of suggestion and recognition, that might have represented her sense of the duty of not 'losing sight' of a social distinction.  This impression came out most for Maggie when, in their easier intervals, they had only themselves to regard, and when her companion's inveteracy of never passing first, of not sitting till she was seated, of not interrupting till she appeared to give leave, of not forgetting too familiarly that in addition to being important she was also sensitive, had the effect of throwing over their intercouse a kind of silver tissue of decorum.  It hung there above them like a canopy of state, a reminder that though the lady-in-waiting was an established favourite, safe in her position, a little queen, however good-natured, was always a little queen and might with small warning remember it.

– Henry James, The Golden Bowl (1904)