#roman statue

[bonboony]

Statu "Lover" by Auguste Rodin

[blueiscoool]

Ancient Roman Carnelian Head of Eros Roman, 1st - 2nd century A.D.

[mint-in-the-moonlight]

Bronze statue of Jupiter, with a sceptre and thunderbolt

From the 1st-2nd century CE, said to be from Hungary Exhibited in The British Museum Photo from The British Museum Website

[toyastales]

Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

[uncleclaudius]

Veiled heads of the Roman emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. So-called capite velato (usually fold of the toga draped over the top of the head) was a show of piety during religious sacrifice, and in art it underlines the individual's role as a priest, in the case of the emperors that of the pontifex maximus.

During the Republic, the office of the pontifex maximus, Rome's highest priest, was elective. Augustus became pontifex maximus in 12 BC and from then on the position was automatically assumed by each successive emperor upon their ascension.

[thesilicontribesman]

A Romano-Egyptian Statue, 2nd to 3rd Century CE, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

This Roman citizen's Greek-style clothing would have been seen as fashionably sophisticated. He lived in a prosperous Egyptian city called Oxyrhynchus, which mixed Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. He would have walked along streets lined with classical columns, visited the Roman baths and attended the theatre which seated 11,000 spectators. His tomb chapel was decorated with this statue, which was originally brightly-coloured. Many traces of pink and red paint remain.

[gizromana]

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The collection of gypsum copies of original Roman statues and busts.

[viagginterstellari]

Bacchus and Diana - Bulla Regia, 2026