id: 141652 accession number: 1965.242 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.242 updated: 2022-09-12 09:36:47.673000 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, AD 280–90. Later Roman, Asia Minor, early Christian period, 3rd century. Marble; overall: 33.4 x 21 x 11.5 cm (13 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.242 title: Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: AD 280–90 creation date earliest: 280 creation date latest: 290 current location: 104 Late Antiquity creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: later Roman, Asia Minor, early Christian period, 3rd century technique: marble department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Early Christian type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 33.4 x 21 x 11.5 cm (13 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture opening date: 2006-09-26T00:00:00 Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 26, 2006-February 19, 2007). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Metropolitan Museum of Art (9/26/2006 - 2/19/2007): "Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture" --- PROVENANCE according to William Wixom, an unconfirmed report tells us that the entire group (1965.237-1965.247) was found in a single, huge pithos or jar. (J. J. Klejman, New York). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: These three pairs of marble portrait busts depict an aristocratic Roman couple. They are unique in representing the same couple three times with only minor variations in costume. Allegedly found together with the Jonah Marbles, they may represent the Christian patrons who commissioned the Jonah cycle. --- RELATED WORKS id: 141653 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, AD 280-90. Later Roman, Asia Minor, early Christian period, 3rd century. Marble; overall: 33.4 x 18.5 x 10.7 cm (13 1/8 x 7 5/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.243 relationship: id: 141654 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, AD 280-90. Later Roman, Asia Minor, early Christian period, 3rd century. Marble; overall: 31.5 x 19 x 10.8 cm (12 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.244 relationship: id: 141655 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, AD 280-90. Later Roman, Asia Minor, early Christian period, 3rd century. Marble; overall: 35.2 x 21.5 x 12 cm (13 7/8 x 8 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.245 relationship: id: 141656 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Woman, AD 280-90. Late Roman, Asia Minor, early Christian period, 3rd century. Marble; overall: 33.2 x 20 x 14 cm (13 1/16 x 7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.246 relationship: id: 141657 Portrait Bust of an Aristocratic Man, AD 280-90. Late Roman, Asia Minor, early Christian period, 3rd century. Marble; overall: 33.5 x 20.1 x 10 cm (13 3/16 x 7 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1965.247 relationship: --- CITATIONS McColl, Donald Alexander. Early Christian Sculptures at Cleveland in Their Eastern Mediterranean Context. 1991. page number: url: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Margaret English Frazer, and Kurt Weitzmann. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art Third to Seventh Century. New York: The Museum, 1977. page number: 407-411 url: Kitzinger, Ernst. 1978. "The Cleveland Marbles". I Monumenti Cristiani Preconstantiniani. 653-675. page number: url: Lehman, Karen M. "Sacred and Profane Hellenizing Marbles of the Late Third Century Roman Empire: Secular Portraits and Religious Narrative Sculptures in the Cleveland Museum of Art Reviewed in the Cultural Context." M.A. thesis, Kent State University, 2004. page number: Mentioned: p. iv, v; Reproduced:84, fig. 1; 119; fig. 36 url: Rumscheid, Frank, Sabine Schrenk and Kornelia Kressirer. Göttliche Ungerechtigkeit?: Strafen und Glaubensprüfungen als Themen antiker und frühchristlicher Kunst. Petersberg: Dr. M. Imhof, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 299; IV.2.3: Portratbusten url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.242/1965.242_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.242/1965.242_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.242/1965.242_full.tif