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

Herodotus (German Webpage)

Hesiod

Hesiod (German Webpage)

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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Early Hellenistic Portraiture:Image, Style, Context

All the leaders of the Greek nation