Cicero - Item #127
18 Inches High x 12 Inches Wide x 10 Inches Deep
It is unknown whether this head is indeed a portrait of Cicero. The Uffizi Gallery and scholars identified it as such for a time, and then thought it was a portrait of Corbulone, a general under Emperor Claudius. The Uffizi has since entitled it "Bust of an unknown man, so-called Cicero." It is a portrait in the Roman Republican style, which used verism (a form of realism) to depict the subject. Several variations of a bust have been added to the head and its reproductions, such as this square version created by P.P. Caproni and Brother.
Museum: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Time Period: Ancient Roman, second half of 1st century B.C.E.
1911 Catalog ID # - 4039
Sources:
"Bust of an unknown man, so-called Cicero." Uffizi Galleries, https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/portrait-of-an-unknown-man-so-called-cicero.
Di Pasquale, Giovanni and Fabrizio Paolucci. Uffizi: The Ancient Sculptures – The Official Guide. Ministery of Artistic and Environmental Heritage and Giunti Gruppo Editoriale, 2001, pp. 28. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=vb743Ly5YN8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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