Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), David, 1624, Galleria Borghese.
Portrait Head of Emperor Caracalla, c.217-230 CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Jean Barbet (active 1475-d.1514), Angel, 1475, The Frick Collection, NYC.
Donatello (1386-1466), David, c.1420s-1460s, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.
The sculpture was originally mounted on a pedastal, with an inscription which read:
“The victor is whoever defends the fatherland.
God crushes the wrath of an enormous foe.
Behold! A boy overcame a great tyrant.
Conquer, o citizens!”
Donatello (1386-1466), David, c.1409, Bargello Museum, Florence.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, 1777, Musée du Louvre.
Marble portrait of Emperor Caligula, ca. 37-41 CE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
“The portrait style created for Augustus was adopted by his family and immediate successors in order to stress the unity and continuity of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This fine bust of Caligula (r. A.D. 37– 41) has regular features and carefully designed locks of hair similar to those in portraits of Augustus. Here, however, the artist has also conveyed something of Caligula’s vanity and cruelty in the proud turn of the head and the thin, pursed lips.”
A reconstruction of a marble bust of the Emperor Caligula (37-41 CE). Most statues from antiquity were painted in vibrant colours in places, if not in their entirety. The colours on this bust were matched from samples of pigment still embedded in the original.
