Marble head of a youth
This idealized head is carved in a manner that brilliantly evokes the qualities of metal in the medium of stone. The polished flesh, sharply outlined eyes, and individualized locks of hair were all typical features of bronze sculpture that were imitated in marble as part of the classicizing taste that prevailed during the reign of the emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century A.D.
Artwork Details
- Title: Marble head of a youth
- Period: Hadrianic or Early Antonine
- Date: 117–161 CE
- Culture: Roman
- Medium: Marble, Pentelic ?
- Dimensions: H. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm)
- Classification: Stone Sculpture
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1914
- Object Number: 14.130.5
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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