Ancient Greek Portraits (original) (raw)
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Hermarchus, the son of Agemortus
Hermarchus, Sala delle Muse, Vatican
Hermarchus,, Vatican Museum, Rom (More Images: 1)
Herodes Atticus
Herodes Atticus , Louvre Paris (More Images: 1, 2, 3)
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hippocrates
Hippocrates, Nationalmuseum, Naples (More Images: 1, )
Hippocrates, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, Rome (More Images: 1, )
Hippocrates, Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen (More Images: 1, 2, 3)
Hippocrates, Florence Uffici (More Images: 1, )
Hippocrates, Capitoline Museum, Rome, Stanza dei filosofi
Hippocrates, National Museum Athens
Hippocrates, Villa Albani, Rome
Herodotus
Herodotus , version of 4th century BC originals, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Beazley Archive
Herodotus, Naples National Museum
Homer
Homer , 460 - 450 BC sculpture, Glyptothek, München, Germany.
Homer, Roman copy of a lost Hellenistic original of the 1st to 2nd century BC, Baiae, Campania, Italy. British Museum, London.
According to Pliny the Elder this type of Homer's portaits were produced in the second century BC for the Pergamon library of the Attalids, one of many other portraits that were copied often by the Romans.
G.M.A. Richter, The portraits of the Greeks (London, Phaidon, 1965), p. 51, no. 13, figs. 88-90,
Homer version of the head of a bronze original of about 200 BC, Musée du Louvre Paris, Beazley Archive
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