Head of a young man (sculpture fragment)

Italy, Roman period, around the end of the 2nd century

Fine-grained white marble sculpture

H: 21 cm

UMP 8477

Purchased from Adolf Ginzel of Rome in 1886.

Idealised portrait of a hero, with curly hair and a helmet on his head. Roman work created in the Hadrianic classical/postclassical style, which saw a return to Greek themes (especially to the time of Polykleitos in the second half of the fifth century BCE and to later Hellenistic means of expression).