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Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B

Vinzenz Brinkmann German
Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann

2005

Not on view

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

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Original: Marble portrait of Roman Emperor Caligula, 37–41 AD, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, inv. IN2687. Photo: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

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Original: Black (carbon black) for the underpainting of brows, eyelashes, and iris. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Original: Black (carbon black) for the underpainting of hair locks and sideburns. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Original: Reddish brown (red and yellow ocher with chalk) for the skin color. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Original: Pink (madder lake) for the interior area of the mouth. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Original: Pink (madder lake) for the interior area of the mouth in fluorescent UV-light. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Comparandum: Red traces as underpainting on the left eye of a Greek marble portrait of a priest of Sarapis, Egypt, 2nd quarter of the 3rd century A.D., © ANTIKENSAMMLUNG, STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN-PREUSSISCHER KULTURBESITZ. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann, inv. Sk 1810

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Comparandum: Painted caruncle of the right eye from the Greek marble portrait of Ptolemy VIII, 2nd century B.C., Yale University Art Gallery, inv. 2018.5.1. Ruth Elizabeth White Fund. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Comparandum: Skin color on an Roman marble Portrait of Marcus Aurelius, 147-149 A.D., Yale University Art Gallery, inv. 2021.40.1, Ruth Elizabeth White Fund. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Reconstruction process: Natural pigments on marble replica (Variant A, 2003), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, inv. 2697a. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Reconstruction process: Natural pigments on synthetic marble cast (Variant B, 2005). Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

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Reconstruction process: Natural pigments on cast synthetic stone (Variant C, 2011), University Göttingen, inv. A1806a. Image University Göttingen

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Reconstruction process: Natural pigments and marble stucco on plaster cast (Variant D, 2003), University Gothenburg, inv. 2101. Image Vinzenz Brinkmann

Title: Reconstruction of a marble portrait of the Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, Variant B

Artist: Vinzenz Brinkmann

Artist: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann

Date: 2005

Medium: Synthetic marble cast, natural pigments in egg tempera

Dimensions: 11 × 9 1/16 × 7 1/16 in. (28 × 23 × 18 cm)

Credit Line: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Polychromy Research Project, Frankfurt am Main, acquired 2016 as a gift from U. Koch-Brinkmann and V. Brinkmann

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