Classical Busts

Prints of classic sculptures depicting prominent historical figures, showcasing details like laurel wreaths, drapery, and intricate facial expressions.

Tiberius CLAUDIUS Drusus Nero Germanicus, Roman emperor Date: 10 BC - 54
Tiberius CLAUDIUS Drusus Nero Germanicus, Roman emperor Date: 10 BC - 54
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Vespasian, Roman Emperor.
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Publius Vergilius Maro or Virgil, a Latin poet and epicist, historical illustration
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Nourishes, Adolphe.
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Nero, Roman emperor.
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Ariobarzanes III. Eusebes Philoromaeus, King of Cappadocia.
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Trollope.
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Gallienus, Roman Emperor.
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Atalanta, Greek virgin heroine from Boeotia, daughter of King Shoenues, famous for her speed in foot racing and her race against Hippomenes. Depicted with loose hair as if running. From a carnelian gem. Atalanta. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio deLazari, Rome, 1699.
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Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, political advisor to Octavian, later Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus. Copperplate engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi from 108 Plates of Antique Gems, 1860. The gems were from the Duke of Marlborough's collection.
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Monti, Vincenzo.
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Thorvaldsen, Tatarkiewicz, Bust of Prince Józef Poniatowski (Jakub Tatarkiewicz, Portrait of Prince Józef Poniatowski ,
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus was a prominent Roman senator in the first half of the 1st century AD, colored woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction.
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Raimondi, Marcantonio, Italy, Roman emperors, TI CAESAR DIVI AUG F AUGUST IMP VIII, Portrait of Emperor Tiberius in round frame, verso bottom left - stamped, print, portrait, prints, height 165 mm, width 153 mm, Italian, 1482 - 1534, print maker, 1510 - 1527, first quarter 16th century, second quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design of
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Head Mercury or Idolinos, Archaeological National Museum, Roman Section, Florence. Donation of the Ballheimer family, Hamburg
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Bustes van Gallienus en Macrinus, Theodor Matham, 1640 print Two busts from Romans. Above the bust of Emperor Gallienus and below of Emperor Macrinus. Print from a publication with reproduction prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome. paper engraving piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture
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Hippolyte (title on object), Hippolyte wears a lion's skin over his extended left arm. On his back he wears a sleeve with arrows. He lowered his gaze. Detail of a painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin entitled 'Phère and Hippolyte' in the Louvre in Paris., Traveling, tourism, casino, watering-place, spa, Ischl, Hendricus Johannes Dieben (mentioned on object), Utrecht (possibly), 1821 - 1836, paper, h 380 mm × w 270 mm
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Guesclin, Bertrand.
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Antoninus Pius en Faustina.Two medallions with the portrait of Emperor Antoninus Pius and the portrait of his wife Faustina. Numbered in the left door: 3.
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Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Bride et de MONTESQUIEU, 1689-1755, French political theorist and writer, modern watercolour
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Alexander the strong, historical woodcut, circa 1880
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Elagabalus c203 - 222 aka Heliogabalus or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Roman emperor of the Severan dynasty From the book Crabbs Historical Dictionary published 1825
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Sonnenthal as Nero, The actor Adolf Sonnenthal as Nero title page of Der Floh , Carl von Stub
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Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Gaius Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman statesman, military commander and author
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Níobe is a personage of Greek mythology, daughter of Tantalus and wife of Anfión, king of Tebas. Greece ancient history. Old engraving illustration fr
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Demosthenes .
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Six coins with portraits of men from the antique: Letter BL F.Six Coins With Portrait Bustles or one from the antique. Hippocrates and Diogenes Among Others.
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Two busts from Medusa; Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II. Two busts of the young medusa. The upper with winger leaves in the hair, the lower with wings in the hair. On the lower busts 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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Asclepiades from Bithynia.
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63-12 BC), Roman statesman and naval and military commander. Artist: Unknown
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A black chalk drawing of the bust of Roman emperor Vitellius by an anonymous artist, executed with gray brush and white highlights, background rubbed, viewed from the left.
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Statue of Claude found these in Herculaneum and Retained at the Museum of Naples, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1861.
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Two Roman portrait busts from Emperor Domitian and Emperor Tiberius. In the middle the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print from a publication with reproduction prints to the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.
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Portrait of Andrew Pike, Willem van Senus, Jan Kamphuysen, 1802 - 1808
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Volusianus, Roman mitcaiser.
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Plaster of antique bust of man, draughtsman: Johannes Tavenraat, anonymous, 10-Feb-1826, paper, h 470 mm × w 328 mm
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Portrait of Roman Emperor Hadrian, 76-138, Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus. Copperplate engraving from Abraham Bogaerts De Roomsche Monarchy, The Roman Monarchy, Francois Salma, Utrecht, 1697.
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CLAUDIUS GALEN Greek physician working in Rome, at court of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus : he tended the gladiators, and voiced theory of humours. Date: 129 - 199
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Leovigild, König der Westgoten 1601/1750
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Beatrice of Aragon, marble bust of the fifteenth century, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1880.
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Asclepiades from Bithynia.
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Alexander III of Macedon, aka Alexander the Great, 356 BC - 323 BC. King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia. From A Popular History of Greece, published 1887.
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Eight times the head of the Venus de 'Medici. Artist: anonymous. Draughtsman: Jan de Bisschop. Dating: 1648 - 1671. Measurements: h 293 mm × w 229 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR Roman Emperor Date: 100 - 44 BC
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Drusus Julius Caesar (14 BC - AD 23), son of Emperor Tiberius, heir to the Roman Empire following the death of his brother Germanicus in AD 19. Drusus Minor. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.
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VIAJE AL ESTRECHO DE JUAN DE FUCA - RELACION DEL VIAJE HECHO POR LAS GOLETAS SUTIL Y MEXICANA EN 1792 - RETRATO DE MARIA MUJER DE TETAC. Author: FERNANDO SELMA (1752-1810). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. FETACU MUJER.
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Francois Joseph Talma as Nero in Britannicus by Jean Racine, Theatre Francais, 1817. After the painting by Eugene Delacroix. Handcoloured lithograph by F. Noel after an illustration by Alexandre-Marie Colin from Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices dans different roles, F. Noel, Paris, 1825.
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Flavius Stilicho, c. 362, 22 August 408, was a Roman mayor and politician, with his woman, a medallion on Stilicho's sarcophagus in the church of Sant Ambrogio in Milan, Italy, digital improved reproduction of an original print from 1880, Europe
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Statue of Germanicus, ancient marble statue in the Lateran Museum in Rome, Italy, digital improved reproduction of an original print from the 19th century, Europe
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Flavius Honorius 384, 423 Roman Emperor from the book Crabbs Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, Record date not stated
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Vespasian, 9 79AD, Roman emperor from 69 to 79AD. The fourth and last in the Year of the Four Emperors, founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years. Titus Flavius Vespasianus. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoors Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse 1831; cast probably 1928 Horatio Greenough American Greenough met artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872) in New York in 1828, with a letter of introduction from his mentor, the Boston painter Washington Allston. Morse was then at the height of his artistic career and was the first president of the recently founded National Academy of Design. In 1828 Greenough settled in Florence, Italy. Morse arrived there in 1830; soon he and Greenough shared a house on the via Valfonda with American painters Thomas Cole and John Cranch. In spring 1831 Greenough modeled busts of Cole and Morse. How closely Greenough portrayed the features of the forty-year-old Morse can be deduced by comparing the bust to the description on Morse’s passport: "middling forehead…prominent nose, common mouth, …rather sharp face." The original marble is now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Metropolitan’s plaster may have been cast in 1928 from a plaster a
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EMPEROR CONSTANTINUS I known as 'The Great'
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Ingolstadt, Eder, Wilhelm, Munich, Sadeler, Raphaël (II), Raphaël (I), Portrait of Servius Tullius, verso lower left - stamped, Head of Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome. After an ancient coin from the period of the Roman Empire., print, picture, book illustration, prints, pictures, height 83 mm, width 53 mm, height 116 mm, width 69 mm, South Netherlands, 1584-12-20 - 1632, print maker, printmaker, 1623 - 1623, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), letterpress printing, 1560, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, uitgever, Publicatie, German - 1660, printer, drukker
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Portrait of Merenptah fourth pharaoh of the XIX dynasty. Ancient Egypt History. Old 19th century engraved illustration from El Mundo Ilustrado 1879
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Henry Solomon Wellcome. Photograph by Underwood after a bust by E. Simone.
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LUDOVICO PIO. REY DE AQUITANIA Y EMPERADOR DE OCCIDENTE. 788 - 840. GRABADO. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL. MADRID.
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Funerary relief dedicated by Caius Domitus Agathopus to Maria Auxesis, who died at the age of forty one. Marble. 2nd Century AD. Trajan age. Rome. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.
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Milon of crotons.
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Alexander I of Epirus, c.371-331 BC, also known as Alexander Molossus, king of the Molossians, king of Epirus, Aeacid dynasty, reigned from 342-331 BC. Wearing a diadem and elephant head with tusks. Alexander Epirota Rex. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his LAcademia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.
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White, Marcus.
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Julius Caesar (100BC-44 BC) Roman general and statesman. Engraving, 1845.