Colossal (2.1 m high) seated Tiberius of the Capitoline-Jove type
from a group of eight related statues found in Cerveteri in the
1840s. Sculpture from the Claudian era. Body possibly reused from
Caligula.
Vatican Inv. 9961. |
Detail of colossal seated Tiberius, Vatican Inv. 9961. |
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Cast of head of Tiberius (the Fayum portrait)
from the Ara Pacis Museum, Rome.
Original in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. |
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Colossal seated Tiberius from Veii.
Vatican Museum inv. 1641. |
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Colossal head of Tiberius found in Veii
in 1811. Vatican Museum inv. 1642. |
Tiberius with corona civica.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli inv. 6051. |
Head of Tiberius, heavily reworked in modern times.
Museo Capitolino, Rome.
Inv. 846. |
Tiberius. Museo Capitolino, Albani
Collection,
Inv. MC283 (MC0283). |
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Sources:
Diana E. E. Kleiner.
Roman
Sculpture (Yale Publications in the History of Art) (1994).
ISBN-13: 978-0300059489.
Flemming Johansen. Roman Portraits
I. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1994.321 pp.
Charles Brian Rose.
Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian
Period (Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography),
Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN-13: 978-0521453820.
Placards in the above named museums. |