Classical Busts

Illustrations of famous classical busts, capturing detailed sculptures of historical figures from antiquity, rendered in intricate engraving styles.

Engraving depicting a bust of Herodotus (484-425 BC) a Greek historian. Dated 5th Century BC
Engraving depicting a bust of Herodotus (484-425 BC) a Greek historian. Dated 5th Century BC
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Bust of a bearded man in Toga, to the left, Hubert Quellinus, 1646 - 1670 print The print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection of Gerard Reynst. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. male persons from classical history
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Historical print from the 19th century, bust of Homer, about 850 BC, the ancient Greek author
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This illustration is of the bust of septimius severus that is in the Louvre Museum in France. Lucius Septimius Severus was a Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through the customary
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Bust of the Roman Emperor Didius Julianus
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LUCIO SEPTIMIO SEVERO (146-211) - SIG ER 370. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Pescennius Niger (135/140-194) was born into an old Italian equestrian family, and was the first member to become a Roman senator. He was appointed by Commodus to be imperial legate of Syria in 191, where he was serving when news came of the murder of Pertinax in 193 and the auctioning of the imperial throne to Didius Julianus. Niger was a well regarded public figure, and the citizens of Rome called out for him to return to Rome and claim the title from Julianus. Consequently, the eastern legions proclaimed Niger as emperor in 193, the second emperor to claim the imperial title after Septimius Severus. The resulting chaos and civil war was known as the Year of the Five Emperors, with claimants all across the Roman Empire vying for the throne. Niger and Severus fought in the east to see who would become undisputed emperor, though Niger was militarily outmatched and outnumbered. Severus offered Niger the chance to surrender and go into exile, but he refused, and was eventually captured i
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Miltiades, c. 550 B. C. c. 489 B. son of Kimon, was an Athenian-born general and politician from the Philaide family, known through Herodotus, who declared him victor in the battle of Marathon, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown
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Heraclitus .
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Bust of jupiter; Jupiter Ammon. Classic bust of a bearded man. He has a wreath of oak leaves around his head. The print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection of Gerard Reynst.
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Engraving depicting a bust of Herodotus (484-425 BC) a Greek historian. Dated 5th Century BC
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MARCO JUNIO BRUTO.POLITICO Y MILITAR ROMANO.UNO DE LOS ASESINOS DE JULIO CESAR. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.
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Buste Van Severus, c. 1875 - c. 1900 photograph Europepublisher: London cardboard. photographic support carbon print male persons from classical history (+ head, bust, etc.). piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture. (story of) the emperor Septimius Severus Europe
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Bust of Clodius Albinus (150-197) Roman usurper and proclaimed emperor by the legions.
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Asopos, a river god in Greek mythology, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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Hadrian, Roman emperor.
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Bust of Homer Artist Unknown Marble Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
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Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, c. 450-404 BC. Prominent Athenian statesman, orator and general. From Cassell's Universal History, published 1888.
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Lazio Roma Rome S. Sebastiano and Catacumbas2. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Fresco paintings from chapel of Onorio III, "Sebastiano ad Catacumbas" (13th century, c. 1216-1227). Post-medieval: 17th century architecture (1609, architectural sculpture, sculpture, painting, fresco painting, stucco. On via Appia. General Notes: Missing 15-17, and 38-41. 94 prints total according to H. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
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Julian, Flavius Claudius Julianus, Julian the Apostate, 331 - 26 June 363, was Roman emperor from 361 to 363 / Flavius Claudius Iulianus, Iulianus Apostata, 331 oder 332 - 26. Juni 363, war von 360 bis 363 römischer Kaiser, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.
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Flavius Claudius Iulianus, Iulianus Apostata, 331 or 332, 26 June 363, was Roman Emperor from 360 to 363, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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TERENCIO. POETA COMICO LATINO. 190-159 AC. GRABADO DE ILLUSTRIUM IMAGINES. EDICION AÑO 1606. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. MADRID.
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Jupiter. James Anderson (British, 1813 - 1877)
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Two portrait busts; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II. Two Roman portrait busts. At the bottom of the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.
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Martin Luther (1483-1546), after his stay on the Wartburg
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Plato .
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Aurelian (214/215-275 CE) rose from humble beginnings, and rose through the ranks of the Roman Army to a position of power and influence under Emperor Claudius Gothicus. After a brief few months when the throne was seized by Claudius' brother, Quintillus, after the former's death in 270, Aurelian ascended to become emperor by the will of his soldiers.
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Bust of the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (130-169). Born Lucius Ceionius Commodus
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Publius, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, 56 AD 120 Senator and Historian of the Roman Empire, History of Ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Italy, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Europe
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Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC). Greek orator and statesman. Portrait. Engraving. Detail. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume I, 1854.
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Anderson, James, 1387 - ROMA, Bust of Jupiter, Vatican, photograph, foto, foto's, ROMA - Giove d'Otricoli - Museo Vaticano, height mm, width mm, English, Italian, 1813 - 1877, photographer, 1857 - 1875, third quarter 19th century, paper, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, albumen print, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher
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Archimedes of Syracuse, Sicily, 287BC-212BC. Mathematician. Engraved by J.W.Cook.
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TEOCRITO. POETA GRIEGO 315 - 250 AC. GRABADO RETRATO. BIBLIOTECA NACIOINAL . MADRID.
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Portrait Bust of Emperor Antoninus Pius, Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece, Europe
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Sophocles (495-406 BC) - Greek playwright. Sophocles wrote 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and also Antigone. Date: 5th century BC
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Academy study: plaster statue of man with beard, draughtsman: Johannes Tavenraat, anonymous, 1-Mar-1824, paper, h 523 mm × w 368 mm
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GERMANICUS CAESAR Roman military commander, notably against the German tribes. Date: 15 BC - 19 AD
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Solon .
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Zenon of Kun.
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Illustration depicting a bust of Socrates. Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher and educator. Dated 18th Century
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Tète dun ésclave dace avec le bonnet phrygien. Vatican. Probably James Anderson (British, 1813 - 1877)
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Marcus Mettius Epaphroditus of Chaeronea. Ancient Greek grammarian of the first century, colored woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, historical, digital reproduction.
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Here we see a douple-herm of the ancient Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides. In the ancient Greek religion,a herm was sacred object of stone connected with the cult of Hermes, the fertility god.
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Europides (c.480-c.406 BC). Tragedian of classical Athens. Engraving from "Cyclopedia of Universal History", 1885.
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Moschion (born probably 3rd century BC) was a Hellenistic tragedian poet from Athens, colored woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction.
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Bust of a bearded man , Sculpture, Antiquities. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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SOCRATES - 470/399 - FILOSOFO GRIEGO. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.
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Portretbuste Van Sophocles; Sophocles; Graphices examples of various artists.
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'Archimedes', (c287-212 BC) , 1830. Archimedes of Syracuse (c287- 212 BC) Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830
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Antistene il cinico. Vaticano. Roma , Antiquities, Sculpture, Philosophers, Antisthenes, approximately 445 B.C.-approximately 360 B.C.. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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Historical print from the 19th century, bust of Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger, 1 - 65 AD, a Roman philosopher, dramatist, scientist, statesman and Stoic
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Hermes of Epicurus and Metrodorus, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1847.
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Miltiades .
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Bearded man in a pilot cap - one of the so -called "Głąd Wawelski" by Sebastian Taurberach and the woodcarler Hans decorating the ceiling of the Wawel parliamentary hall in the years around 1540-1804/1807 and from 1927; Plater-Zyberk, Stefan (1891-1943); around 1917 (negative); around 1917-1927 (print) (1915-00-00-1927-00-00);
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Portrait of Nicolaas Grudius; Nicolavs GRVDIVS Brabanvs; Known writers from the Netherlands; Bibliotheca Belgica. Portrait of Nicolaas Grudius, Leuven humanist and poet. In profile to the right. The print has a Latin top and caption and is part of a series of famous writers from the Netherlands.
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Aristides, c.AD 140. Athenian Christian philosopher. Engraved by J.W.Cook.
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The Triumphal Statue of Claudius in the Vatican Museum in Rome, Tiberius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, 1 August 10 BC 13 October 54 AD was the fourth Roman emperor from the Julio-Claudian dynasty, digital improved reproduction of an original print from 1880, Italy, Europe
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Los Papas y los Bárbaros. Victor II (-1057), Papa de de la iglesia católica de 1055 a 1057. Grabado de 1866.
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Emilia-Romagna Ferrara Argenta S. Domenico09. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, painting, frescoes. Works in museum include 15th century terracotta statues and painting, sculpture Owner: Pinacoteca Comunale Object Notes: Two sets of prints and negatives General Notes: Successivamente alla realizzazione di questo servizio, risalente al l'anno 1978, al Pinacoteca e stato aggiunto. Per questo motivo e in prepazione da parte un servizio aggiornato sulla Pinacoteca di Argenta. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province
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Trojan War heroes: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles, Agamemnon
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Demokritos .
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Aristotle, Aristoteles, 384 BC Chr., 322 BC BC, woodcut, Italy, Europe
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Italy: Julian the Apostate (331-363), 63rd Roman emperor, from the book Icones imperatorvm romanorvm (Icons of Roman Emperors), Antwerp, c. 1645. Julian was a member of the Constantinian Dynasty and cousin to Emperor Constantius II. Emperor Constantius II made him Caesar of the western provinces in 355 while he was busy fighting the Sassanid Empire in the east, entrusting Julian against the Alamanni and Franks. Julian was proclaimed emperor by his soldiers in 360.
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Karl I, the big, Roman emperor.