Monaco Head
This is a Roman version of a portrait of an unknown Greek general. The closed mouth makes it somehow less expressive than other similar portraits, as though he is commemorated rather than caught in action
Material:
Marble
Location of Original:
Munich, Glyptothek 301
Size:
0.52m
References:
Furtwängler: Catalogue of the Munich Museum, 330
Walston: Catalogue of Casts in the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1889), 115, no.603
Date:
Roman. Original: Hellenistic
Provenance:
Acquired from the Villa Albani in 1815 (?)
Number:
346