Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Romans

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Bust of Faustina
before 1527
bronze, partly gilt
(from the Gonzaga Collection in Mantua)
Musée du Louvre


Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Bust of Faustina
before 1527
bronze, partly gilt
(from the Gonzaga Collection in Mantua)
Musée du Louvre

Roman Empire
Head of Youth
AD 220-30
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Anonymous Italian Artist
Scipio
ca. 1475
marble relief
Musée du Louvre

Pierre Julien
Dying Gladiator
1779
marble (reception piece)
Musée du Louvre

Louis-Pierre Deseine
Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena
1791
marble
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Spanish Artist
Gunpowder Flask with Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena
ca. 1540-60
gilt copper
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Bust of Augustus
17th century
bronze, partly gilt
Musée du Louvre

Roman Empire
Head of Man
AD 220-30
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Roman Empire
Youth
AD 190-200
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Pietro Bernini
Bust of Emperor Lucius Verus
before 1629
marble
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Anonymous Italian Artist
Roman General
17th century
marble
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Italian Artist
Roman General
17th century
marble
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Bust of Emperor Antoninus Pius
before 1527
bronze, partly gilt
(from the Gonzaga Collection in Mantua)
Musée du Louvre

Nikolaus Knüpfer
Roman Matrons supplicating Coriolanus
ca. 1646
drawing
British Museum

Johann Heinrich Ramberg
Family Members beseeching Coriolanus for Peace
1813
drawing
British Museum

Who Goes with Fergus?

Who will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's woven shade,
And dance upon the level shore?
Young man, lift up your russet brow,
And lift your tender eyelids, maid,
And brood on hopes and fear no more.

And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery;
For Fergus rules the brazen cars,
And rules the shadows of the wood,
And the white breast of the dim sea
And all dishevelled wandering stars.

– William Butler Yeats (1892)