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IMPORTANT ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OFA YOUNG MAN WITH CURLY HAIR Depicted with a closely croped beard and moustache, calm expression, and level gaze. His hair is elaborately carved and drilled with thick deep-set curls, ach individually rendered. This is a particularly fine head from a period from which little fine quality sculpture remains. The bean-shaped pupil is typical of late Severan portraiture and the closely cropped beard popularize by the soldier emperors who followed, ca. AD 235 and onwards. Cf. J. Frel, Roman Portraits in the Getty Museum, 1981, pp. 108-110, nos. 89 and 90. Ex collection of Gawain McKinley, London, acquired before May of 1966. 2nd Century AD H. 12 in. Art of the Ancient World, 2009, no. 21 TL0803 SOLD |
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