Painted cast of the Augustus of Prima Porta
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Details
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Title
Painted cast of the Augustus of Prima Porta
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Associated people
Augustus (-27 - 14) (subject) -
Associated place
Vatican City (place of purchase) -
Date
2001 - 2009 -
Material and technique
plaster
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
219 cm estimated (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 2009.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 14 | Cast Gallery -
Museum department
Cast Gallery
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Accession no.
CG.H.102
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Catalogue text
Second, painted cast of the same original as B 161.
Cast acquired in 2009 from the Musei Vaticani. Reconstructed polychrome version produced under the scientific direction of P. Liverani.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
Henzen, G., ‘Scavi di Prima Porta’, Bullettino dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, 1, (1863)
Kähler, Heinz, Die Augustusstatue von Primaporta (Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1959)
Helbig, W., Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, supervised by H. Speier, 4th ed. (Tübingen: Wasmuth, 1963-1972)
Boschung, Dietrich, Die Bildnisse des Augustus (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1993)
Smith, R.R.R., ‘Typology and Diversity in the Portraits of Augustus’, Journal of Roman Archaeology, 9, (1996)
Liverani, Paolo, ‘Der Augustus von Prima Porta’, Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Wurnig, eds, Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur, 2nd ed. (Munich: Staatliche Antikensammlung und Glyptothek, 2004)
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)
Katherine Wodehouse (general editor), The Ashmolean Museum Crossing Cultures Crossing Time (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014), p.70, illus. p.70
