Colossal bust of Lucius Verus
- Title:
- Colossal bust of Lucius Verus
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Musées Nationaux Moulages (reproduction)
Unknown (original)
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
second half of the 2nd c. CE, probably ca. 180 CE
- Site:
- Paris, France (reproduction)
Rome (Villa of Lucius Verus, Acqua Traversa), Italy (discovery site, 1720) (original) - Location:
- Warehouse (formerly Goldwin Smith Hall Room G55
after that, as of 6/26/14, Goldwin Smith Hall G20)
Paris, France (reproduction)
Rome (Villa of Lucius Verus, Acqua Traversa), Italy (discovery site, 1720) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0718
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 515
542 (sticker on front with black dot)
692 - File Name:
- CCC_0718.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 83 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Verus, Lucius Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 130-169
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from three-quarters
- Measurement:
- 103 x 51 x 43.5 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a cast of a colossal portrait bust of the emperor Lucius Verus in the Louvre. The emperor turns his head to his left and looks ahead. His brow is heavy, his eyes are narrow, his nose is prominent but not exceptionally large, and his small, full lips are closed. He has a very full head of curly hair that sits low on his forehead, a modest mustache, and an almost unruly full, curly beard. The bust of the original is modern and includes the upper chest but is cut before the shoulders. The original was discovered in 1720 at Lucius Verus' villa at Acqua Traversa (Rome) with a colossal bust of his co-emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. Ma 1170 - Bibliography:
- entries for the work at: louvre.fr and arachne.uni-koeln.de
Rune Frederiksen and R. R. R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 2011), 119, B 170 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Louvre (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.