cast
On display
Details
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Date
2000 -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.H.46
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Catalogue text
Munich, Glyptothek, inv. 319.
Attested by 1642 in the Barberini Collection in Rome, from where it was acquired in 1814 by Prince Ludwig of Bavaria through the art dealer V. Cammucini.
Expressive and dynamic portrait head in Hellenistic-Republican style. Probably a fictional, heroic portrait of an earlier Republican leader. Late 1st century BC.
Made in 2000 by the workshop of the Munich Glyptothek (S. Bertolin).In: Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
Further reading
Frederiksen, Rune, and R.R.R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2011)
