id: 111518
accession number: 1929.998
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Portrait Head of Emperor Vespasian, Recut from Head of Nero, 64–79 CE. Italy, Roman. Marble; overall: 40 x 21.6 x 24.9 cm (15 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.998
title: Portrait Head of Emperor Vespasian, Recut from Head of Nero
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creation date: 64–79 CE
creation date earliest: 64
creation date latest: 79
current location: 103 Roman
creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Italy, Roman
technique: marble
department: Greek and Roman Art
collection: GR - Roman
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 40 x 21.6 x 24.9 cm (15 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture
opening date: 2000-09-16T00:00:00
From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA (organizer) (September 16, 2000-January 7, 2001); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (January 30-March 25, 2001).
title: Stories From Storage
opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00
Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
title: Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder
opening date: 2023-01-21T05:00:00
Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (organizer) (January 21-June 12, 2023) https://museum.cornell.edu/exhibitions/wonder-and-wakefulness-nature-pliny-elder.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Atlanta, GA: (9/16/00-1/7/01) Michael C. Carolos Museum, Emory University and New Haven, CT: (1/31-3/25/01) Yale University Art Gallery "From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny & Transformation in Roman Portraiture" exh. cat. no. 27, pp 136-139.', 'opening_date': '2000-09-16T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Piero Tozzi Gallery, Florence, Italy, sold to Brummer Gallery
date: ?-1928
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Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1928-1929
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1929-
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RELATED WORKS
id: 110924
Togatus Figure, 1–200 CE. Italy, Roman. Pentelic marble; overall: 167.7 x 63.5 x 40.6 cm (66 x 25 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1929.439
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CITATIONS
R. H. "The Portrait of a Roman Statesman." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 8 (1929): 139-41.
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url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137236
"Cleveland Gets Roman Statue" ARTnews. [New York, etc.] (October 19, 1929).
page number: pp. 1, 13
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"Roman Honesty" Art Digest. [New York] (Mid October 1929).
page number: p. 19
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Bieber, Margaret. 1944. “Roman Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Art in America 32: 65-83.
page number: Reproduced in Fig. 11 (then attached to the togate statue 1929.439).
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Bieber, Margarete. "Roman Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America (April 1944).
page number: pp. 77, fig. 11
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 40 (then attached to the togate statue 1929.439).
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n22
Carter, Martha L. Classical Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced; p. 11-12; Plate 18
url: https://archive.org/details/ClassicalArt/page/n15
Pollini, John. "Damnatio Memoriae in Stone: Two Portraits of Nero Recut to Vespasian in American Museums." American Journal of Archaeology 88, no. 4 (1984): 547-55.
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url: www.jstor.org/stable/504743
Varner, Eric R., and Sheramy D. Bundrick. From Caligula to Constantine: Tyranny & Transformation in Roman Portraiture. Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2000.
page number: Pp. 136-139 (Cat. 27).
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Varner, Eric R. Mutilation and Transformation: Damnatio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
page number: Pp. 53, 241, Fig. 49a-e (Cat. 2.17).
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Pollini, John. "Recutting Roman Portraits: Problems in Interpretation and the New Technology in Finding Possible Solutions," in The Good, the Bad, and the Altered: Toward a Method of Identifying Recut and Typologically Irregular Roman Imperial Portraits. Edited by Gregory S. Bucher, et al. 23-44. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 2011.
page number: Mentioned: p. 32-33, Reproduced: p. 75, figs 21a-e.
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Merchán García, María José. Écija: (Provincia de Sevilla, Hispania Ulterior Baetica). Thesis (Revised). Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla; Tarragona: ICAC, Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, 2015. p. 107
page number: Mentioned: p. 107
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Prusac, Marina. From Face to Face: Recarving of Roman Portraits and the Late-Antique Portrait Arts. Second, revised edition. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, Volume 18. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016.
page number: P. 134, cat. 67.
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