EXAMPLE OR ALTER EGO ? ASPECTS OF THE PORTRAIT HISTORIÉ IN WESTERN ART FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (original) (raw)

Abstract

Observations on Greek and Roman portraits in the guise of mythical persons, e.g. like Hercules donned with a lion skull

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1. Herakles Frees Prometheus on Caucasus, from Pergamon, 197-159 B.C., marble, Herakles: 63 cm high, Prometheus: 72.8 cm high, Caucasus: 40.4 cm high, Berlin, Staatliche Sammlungen Preufischer Kunstbesitz, Antikensammlungen, Pergamon Museum. Photo: bpk/Antikensammlung, SBM

2. Head of Alexander the Great with his name inscribed on his cheeks, from Kerameikos, c. 200 B.C., marble, 28 cm high, Athens, National Archaeological Museum. © Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports /Archaeological Receipts Fund

3. Oktadrachm, Arsinoe II with Ammon’s horns, minted posthumously under Ptolemy VI-VIII at Alexandria, Egypt, c. 180-116 B.C., gold, 2,7 cm diameter, location unknown. Photo: Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University Nijmegen

‘4. ‘Thermenherrscher’, statue of a member of the Attalid dynasty, from Rome, 180-160 B.C., bronze, 237 cm high, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo. Photo Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University Nijmegen

5. Statue of Claudius as Jupiter, c. 50 A.D, marble, 254 cm high, Citta del Vaticano, Rome, Vatican Museums, Museo Pio Clementino. Photo: Stephan Mols

6. Bust of Commodus as Hercules and accompanying tritons, 176-192 A.D., marble, bust: 133 cm high, Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori. Photo: Stephan Mols

7. Head of Gnaeus Pompeius as Alexander the Great, copy after an original from c. 50 B.C., marble, 24,8 cm high, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Photo: Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University Nijmegen

8. Galerius as Alexander the Great, relief panel from the Arch of Galerius, Thessaloniki, c. 280-300 A.D., marble. Photo: Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University Nijmegen

9. Kleomenes, statue of Marcellus or Germanicus as Mercury, c. 20 B.C., marble, 180 cm high, Paris, Musée du Louvre. Photo: Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University Nijmegen

10. Statue of Antinoos as Apollo, c. 130-138 A.D., marble, 200 cm high, Delphi, Archaeological Museum. Photo: Stephan Mols

11. Dupondius of Tiberius with Livia as Salus Augusta, 22-23 A.D., copper alloy, 2,9 cm diameter, location unknown. Photo: Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University Nijmegen

12. Funerary relief with Ulpia Epigone as Venus, early second century A.D., marble, 92 x 204.5 cm, Citta del Vaticano, Rome, Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Profano Ex-Lateranense. Photo: Vatican Museums

13. Statue of Hercules Albertini, 0-100 A.D., 358 cm high, colored marble, Parma, Museo Nazionale. Photo: Centrum ” voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University “Nijmegen

14. Statue of Trajan as Hercules, Rome, 108-113 A.D., marble, 105 cm high, Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo. Photo: Diane Kuster, Fiuggi

15. Statue of lady as Venus-Hercules, 200-225 A.D., marble, 182 cm high, Citta del Vaticano, Rome, Vatican Museums, Museo Gregoriano Profano Ex-Lateranense. Photo: Vatican Museums

16. Sarcophagus of L. Pullius Peregrinus with Muses and Wise Men, 240-250 A.D., marble, 132 x 222 cm, Rome, Villa Torlonia. Photo: Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Radboud University Nijmegen

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