“Headless
statue of emperor with breastplate” of the Antonine period
“Two altars for the
imperial cult”
of the Augustan period
Fourth
room - Images of the Julio-Claudian Family
“Gaius
Octavius” father of Octavian Augustus
“Drusus”
“Germanic”
“Tiberius”
“Small bust
maybe of Caligula” from the River Tiber near Via Giulia
“Octavia”
“Livia”
with her typical hairstyle with nodustypus conservative reaction to the
complicated Hellenistic hairstyles
“Agrippina
the Younger” from Ostia
“Agrippina
the Elder”
“Girl from
Ostia as Artemis” of the Flavian period, when it was common to the identify individuals
with gods in funerary depictions, in this case Diana, symbol of chastity and
beauty for a girl
Fifth
Room - Augustan Period
“Augustus as Pontifex” from Via Labicana
“Altar of Mars and
Venus” early
second century AD from the Square
of the Guilds in Ostia with representation of the twins Romulus and
Remus suckled by the wolf and supervised by the eagle symbol of Jupiter and
Rome
Third
Gallery - Portraits of Greeks
“Socrates” from a bronze original by Lysippus
of 350 BC in the version of the so called type B with features less Silenus
like than the version of the so called type A
“Hesiod”
“Portrait of a
bearded man”
first century AD in Greek marble from a Greek original of the early second
century BC. It is probably the portrait of a philosopher
“Philip V
of Macedonia”
“Boxer”
from the Villa of Genazzano
“Marble portrait of
Alexander the Great” I sec. A.D. from the Temple
of Hercules at Tivoli with fourteen holes maybe a crown maybe an
original by Lysippus
“Mosaic émblema with
cat and ducks in opus vermiculatum” first century BC from Via Ardeatina
Sixth
Room – Greek Originals
“Niobid from the
Gardens of Sallust” Greek original about 440 BC in Parian marble from Via Collina perhaps
from the pediment of the Temple of Apollo Daphnephoros at Eretria: the myth of
Niobe was the hubris (arrogance) inevitably punished
“Peplophoros” maybe Greek original from Piazza
Barberini
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