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"title": "Portrait Head of a Woman, Probably the Empress Faustina Minor",
"creation_date": "c. 165 CE",
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"id": 205351,
"title": "I Claudia, Women in Ancient Rome",
"description": "I Claudia, Women in Ancient Rome. Yale University Art Gallery (organizer) (September 6-December 1, 1996); San Antonio Museum of Art (December 20, 1996-March 2, 1997); North Carolina Museum of Art (April 6-June 15, 1997).",
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}
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"did_you_know": "Scholars have disagreed about this portrait's identity\u2014probably an empress, either Faustina Minor or Lucilla.",
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"description": "Acquired in 1925, this head was initially identified as a portrait of the Empress Lucilla (lived AD 149-182), wife of the Emperor Lucius Verus, who co-ruled with Marcus Aurelius from AD 161-169. More recently, scholars have identified the portrait as a representation of the Empress Faustina Minor (lived c. AD 130-176/177), wife of Marcus Aurelius (r. 161-180) and mother of Lucilla. The two women, relatively close in age, share a number of portrait features: heavy-lidded eyes, with incised irises and pupils; small mouth; and a distinctive hairstyle, parted in the center and pulled back in waves to a braided knot at the base of the neck.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman. \"A Roman Imperial Portrait of Lucius Verus.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 40, no. 3 (March 1953): 47-50.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 50",
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"citation": "Vermeule, Cornelius C. \"Greek and Roman Portraits in North American Collections Open to the Public: A Survey of Important Monumental Likenesses in Marble and Bronze Which Have Not Been Published Extensively.\" Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, no. 2 (1964): 99-134.",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 104.",
"url": "www.jstor.org/stable/985890."
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"citation": "Vermeule, Cornelius C. Greek and Roman Sculpture in America: Masterpieces in Public Collections in the United States and Canada. Malibu, Calif: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1981.",
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"citation": "Kleiner, Diana E. E., and Susan B. Matheson. I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996.",
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