Busto de mujer con rollo de pergamino

Bizantino

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 301

Esculpido con gran finura, este busto representa a una dama madura con expresión pensativa y penetrante mirada; en la mano derecha sostiene un pergamino que indica su afición por los clásicos y la identifica como una persona de alcurnia. Su indumentaria es típica de una aristócrata: viste un manto sobre una túnica y lleva en la cabeza un tocado que estaba de moda en el siglo IV. El busto tal vez formó parte de un conjunto conmemorativo cuya finalidad era documentar una donación pública, o bien fue usado en el ámbito doméstico.

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine

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Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine
Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll, Pentelic Marble, Byzantine

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