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Portrait Bust of a Man
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About this work
The realistic features of this fine life-sized portrait include wrinkles in the forehead and beside each eye, and very naturalistic ears, protruding but not quite symmetrical. The stylized hair is neatly arranged and suggests a date in the Augustan period, although some scholars have seen it as late Republican. Likely once topping a shaft as a herm bust, the portrait’s subject—now unknown—would have been identified by an inscription.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePortrait Bust of a Man, 27 BCE–14 CE. Italy, Roman, Augustan period. Bronze; overall: 38.1 x 21.6 cm (15 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1928.860
