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Leadership and military strength are evoked in the heroic nudity of the figure and in the pose, which recalls the famous statue of Alexander the Great with the Lance by Lysippos. In contrast to the idealized body, the portrait head represents the emperor with brutish realism.
- Bronze Portrait of a Man
Bronze portrait of a man. Roman. 1st half of 1st century CE...
- The Stylistic Cycle
As time went on, these stylized aspects became increasingly...
- Bronze Portrait of a Man
Dec 6, 2023 · Trebonianus Gallus — emperor or athlete? Rethinking a modern attribution. by Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe and Dr. Beth Harris. In the chaos of the 3rd century, can we be sure about the identification of this statue? Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, 251-53 C.E., bronze, 241.3 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Speakers: Dr ...
Rethinking a modern attribution (video) | Khan Academy. Emperor or athlete? Rethinking a modern attribution. Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, 251-53 C.E., bronze, 241.3 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Speakers: Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe and Dr. Beth Harris.
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- The Story That Would Not Die
- The Cast of Characters
- The Source of The Story
- Reasons For Doubt
- The Problem of ‘Said to Be’
This article will discuss the eight-foot-tall bronze statue of a nude male figure, usually identified as the third-century emperor, Trebonianus Gallus, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (Fig. 1).1The figure’s markedly unclassical features – its small head, contorted expression, enormous torso, and stilted pose – distinguish it from...
In a valedictory article published in the 1970 issue of the Metropolitan Museum Journal, curator Gisela Richter surveyed the growth of the Museum’s Greek and Roman holdings over the course of her more than sixty years in that department. Listing the outstanding works already in the collection by the time of her arrival in 1906, Richter mentions the...
The official account of the statue’s discovery and early ownership history involves three men with interesting, intersecting biographies. The Russian count who allegedly sponsored the excavations, Nicolas Nikitich Demidoff (1773–1828), was an industrialist and heir to a vast mining fortune.13 He spent most of his adult years in Paris, but relocated...
A well-connected man, Montferrand was able to secure the services of Dr Bernard von Köhne, a prominent German numismatist and curator at the Hermitage, for the cataloguing of his art collection.18 Von Köhne published the catalogue in two journals (both founded and edited by him) in 1852, the same year in which he presented Montferrand’s colossal br...
The first problem with Montferrand’s story is that these ostensible archaeological excavations in the Lateran area are otherwise entirely unattested. This despite the fact that they allegedly lasted two years and were extensive enough to incur costs daunting to a wealthy industrialist. Nicolas Demidoff did engage in a high-profile archaeological en...
The fact that the Metropolitan statue was almost certainly not found in excavations near the Lateran means that it may have come from somewhere else in the city, or that it may not come from Rome at all. Both possibilities open up new interpretive avenues. If it was discovered, say, somewhere in the Balkan region (where Anatole Demidoff travelled e...
- Elizabeth Marlowe
- 2015
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Aug 21, 2022 · Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe, “Said to be or not said to be: the findspot of the so-called Trebonianus Gallus statue at the Metropolitan Museum in New York,” Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 27, issue 2 (July 2015) Roman Portrait Sculpture: The Stylistic Cycle on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Jun 24, 2017 · In 1905 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired a large bronze statue, supposedly of the Roman emperor Trebonianus Gallus (reigned ad 251–253), from a vendor in Paris. 1 It can be traced securely to the collection of the distinguished St Petersburg architect Auguste de Montferrand (1786–1858) who claimed the statue as Julius Caesar and that it had been excavated near the church ...
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