ECL-Bn.9:2-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.9:2-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Head: Julio-Claudian emperor (?)
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Fa 4 'the head of Tiberius copied from a gemm in the Florentine collection'
Other number
Fa 4 no. 2
Description
Content (description)
The head of a youth with short hair combed forward. He wears a cuirass with an elaborate Medusa head in floral volutes at the neck. The head is blue with the hair added in brown, the neck and cuirass is gold, on a pedestal of pinkish marble with brown and white markings.
Content (object)
bust
Content (note)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 449mm
width (actual size): 300mm
width (actual size): 300mm
Materials & techniques note
body colour (?) and watercolour on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Lanciani (Bull. Com 1894 p. 182f: 'testa di Caligola in bronzo dorato con panneggio in pietra dura turchina')
• Reinach (p. 16 pl. 6.3)
• Reinach (p. 16 pl. 6.3)
