Head of a Man, 3rd century CE

  • Roman

Marble

  • Overall: 13 × 6 × 8 inches (33 × 15.2 × 20.3 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Holden

27.212

Department

Greco-Roman and Ancient European

(Alfredo Barsanti [1877-1946], Rome, Italy)

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Holden [Lynelle]

1927-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 3 (1927): p. 28-30, (ill.). Vermeule, Conelius C. "Review of 'Iconografici Romana Imperiala da Severo Alessandro a M. Aurelio Carino' by B. M. Felleti Maj," American Journal of Archeology, vol. 63 (1959): p. 108. Vermeule, Cornelius C. "A Graeco-Roman Portrait," Dumbarton Oaks Papers, no. 15 (1961): pp. 1-22, (fig. 8). Roman Portraits. Exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, 1961, no. 30. Gazda, Elaine K. Roman Portraiture: Ancient & Modern Revivals. Exh. cat., Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Ann Arbor, 1977, pp. 30–31, no. 11 (ill.). Vermeule, Cornelius C. Greek and Roman Sculpture in America. Berkeley, 1981, p. 365, no. 316. "Family Art Game: Looking to Learn," The Detroit Free Press (April 26, 1992): p. 17 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement]. Matheson, Susan B. and J. J. Pollitt. Old Age in Greek and Roman Art. New Haven, 2022, p. 213, app. 43 (ill.).

Roman, Head of a Man, 3rd century CE, marble. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Holden, 27.212.