Italy, Roman / 50 BCE–100 CE
Idealized Head
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Idealized Head as sculpture (Italy, Roman · 50 BCE–100 CE).
This head could represent a woman or goddess, or a youthful god such as Apollo.
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The museum identifies this sculpture as dolomite.
The museum's collection notes: This head combines an idealizing style with the serene expression that was characteristic of early Classical sculpture in Greece. Though copies of Greek masterpieces were popular in Rome during the late Republic and early empire, Romans also created many new sculptures that emulated the Classical style, which they felt conveyed a sense of the divine. This statue was probably one such piece, borrowing iconographically and stylistically from various Greek examples.
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